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• Union fury at reports Sunak might overrule some public sector pay rises

  24-06-2023 22:37
  
  Recommendations from independent pay review bodies could be rejected by PM if he deems them unaffordableUnions have expressed outrage over reports the prime minister plans to block public sector wage increases owing to fears about pushing up UK inflation, which remains worse than in other leading economies.Recommendations from the independent pay review bodies could be overruled by Rishi Sunak if they are considered unaffordable, the Times reported, because of concerns they could set off a &ldqu
  
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• Australia’s international students cry foul over demands to take $400 English test multiple times

  24-06-2023 22:00
  
  Students claim conflict of interest because universities have financial interests in language tests, while Greens argue system has ‘xenophobic undertones’Follow our Australia news live blog for the latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastInternational students are spending hundreds of dollars on mandatory English language tests that expire after two years – even if they have completed degrees in English and lived in Australia for y
  
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• Move over, stuffed teddies. Museums today need more to stimulate young minds | Tristram Hunt

  24-06-2023 19:24
  
  An old childhood favourite reopens its doors this week. A revamp was long overdue, says its directorHere is a curious tension. This month, the government announced an extra £77m to support new “creative clusters” across film, fashion, TV and gaming. With the creative industries supporting more than 2m jobs and bringing in £108bn a year to the British economy, it makes sense.Yet at the same time, we are throttling the pipeline. The last 12 years have witnessed a 60% collap
  
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• ‘I haven’t had a single normal year at university’: the UK students graduating without a graded degree

  24-06-2023 17:00
  
  An unlucky cohort of undergraduates has been plagued by Covid restrictions, education strikes and finally a marking boycottEmily Smith, a final-year geography student at Durham University, never imagined her already heavily disrupted university experience could end like this. She won’t be graduating this summer because half her work remains unmarked owing to a national marking boycott by lecturers.She refuses to attend the “completion ceremony” Durham has offered her instead. W
  
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• Disruptive behaviour leaves excluded pupils’ units in England ‘full to bursting’

  24-06-2023 15:16
  
  Referral unit providers warn of overwhelming demand from unprecedented poor behaviour after pandemic lullReferral units for children who have been excluded from mainstream schools are warning that they are full to bursting because of unprecedented levels of disruptive behaviour across the country.Providers that take children excluded from mainstream schools say that after a lull during the pandemic, the situation has deteriorated, and they have seen permanent exclusions rising across the country
  
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• ‘We’re collateral damage’: marking strikes hit students’ graduate careers

  24-06-2023 08:00
  
  After struggling through degrees hindered by Covid, those affected by boycott now say they face missing job opportunitiesRay, 21, recently missed out on a dream job at a charity after they were unable to present their degree classification. Due to the marking boycott, they have now been waiting for eight weeks for their dissertation result alongside another unmarked module.“It’s been deeply upsetting. I’ve worked really hard, I’ve been in the library until 3am. Continue r
  
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• Third of UK final-year students face grades delay due to marking boycott

  24-06-2023 08:00
  
  Small number could attend graduation but later be told they have failed as pay dispute affects assessments at 145 universitiesTens of thousands of university students are being left in limbo without their final degree results this summer, including some who could attend graduation ceremonies only to be told later that they have failed.About a third of the UK’s 500,000 final-year undergraduates are thought to have been affected by the marking and assessment boycott at 145 universities, part
  
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• Tory MPs voice concerns over tabled ban on public bodies boycotting Israel

  24-06-2023 05:00
  
  Exclusive: Backbenchers tell Michael Gove they may oppose bill designed to stop sanctions separate to those set by governmentMichael Gove is on a collision course with a handful of Conservative MPs over his plans to stop public bodies boycotting Israel.A group of Tory backbenchers have made clear to the levelling up, housing and communities secretary they have concerns about the economic activity of public bodies bill, which is due to return to the Commons within weeks for a second reading. Cont
  
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