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• Poor housing a growing barrier to school attendance in England, charity reveals

  14-05-2023 16:47
  
  Exclusive: School-Home Support finds proportion of children citing such concerns has risen 73% year on yearInsecure, unsuitable and poor-quality housing is increasingly a barrier to children going to school, according to an education charity that works with persistently absent pupils and their families to improve school attendance in England.School-Home Support (SHS), which tries to address the root causes of high absence rates through whole-family support, says 19% of the pupils it works with c
  
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• Low pay ‘forcing teaching assistants out of UK classrooms’

  14-05-2023 10:00
  
  Three quarters say they feel undervalued and are thinking about quitting, charity warns Schools will undergo a “crisis of support” without urgent action to improve pay and training for teaching assistants, a charity will warn in a report to be published this week.The NCFE, an educational charity that also provides qualifications for those in the teaching sector, carried out a snapshot survey of 150 teaching assistants (TAs) across the UK and found that three-quarters had thought abou
  
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• A university education doesn’t have to lead to a lifetime of debt. There is another way | Sonia Sodha

  14-05-2023 08:31
  
  Degree apprenticeships and subsidised housing can save the young from narrowed existencesFifty years ago, the average 24-year-old would have been married, living with their partner, and probably already a parent. Census data out last week shows that today they’re probably still living with their parents.Welcome to the modern phenomenon dubbed “stretched adolescence”. It’s a term that hints at baby boomers unable to quite get their twentysomethings to leave the parental ho
  
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