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• The Guardian view on England’s universities: a summer of campus discontent | Editorial

  07-08-2023 19:25
  
  Institutions, academics and students are being ill-served by a failing marketised model of higher educationRightly rejecting the idea of lifting the cap on tuition fees in English universities, the higher education minister, Robert Halfon, last week urged the HE sector to read the signs of the times. “I just think we have to be real,” said Mr Halfon, “that we have to live in the world as it is, which is an incredibly difficult one faced by cost-of-living challenges.”He wa
  
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• Scots education staff vote to strike in 10 areas

  07-08-2023 14:06 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Unite members in 10 Scottish council areas will take industrial action when schools return after the summer break.
  
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• A-level results 2023, BTec Level 3 and T-levels: the full guide

  07-08-2023 12:20 via bbc.co.uk
  
  When is results day, and what should you do if you don't get the grades you need?
  
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• UK school leavers: have you been turned off university over affordability concerns?

  07-08-2023 11:57
  
  We’d like to hear from young people who have decided against university due to concerns about cost and future financesWe’re interested to hear from young Britons who have opted out of higher education because they feared student life would be unaffordable, or had concerns about their financial future if they attended university.Whether financial concerns relating to tuition fees, student accommodation, student loan repayments or concerns about graduate job prospects have prompted you
  
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• Transparency data: Providers delivering T Levels and the T Level foundation year

  07-08-2023 11:00 via gov.uk
  
  Details of providers registered to deliver T Levels and providers intending to deliver the T Level foundation year.
  
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• Did you solve it? Are you smart enough for Mensa?

  07-08-2023 08:10
  
  The solutions to today’s puzzlesToday I set you these three problems by Mensa-approved author Barry R Clarke. Here they are again with solutions.1. Switched on Continue reading...
  
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• Can you solve it? Are you smart enough for Mensa?

  07-08-2023 08:10
  
  Or denser?Today’s three puzzles are written by Barry R Clarke, author of Mensa’s bestselling book of logic puzzles. Mensa is the society for people with high IQs, which it defines as those who score in the top 2 per cent of intelligence tests.If you breeze through these puzzles, consider yourself a clever clogs! Continue reading...
  
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• Nearly 100,000 fewer top A-levels this year in grading plan, research suggests

  07-08-2023 01:01
  
  Tens of thousands of students face likely drop in As and A*s as ministers aim to return results in England to pre-pandemic levelsTens of thousands of A-level students face disappointment on results day next week, amid warnings that nearly 100,000 fewer As and A*s could be awarded as the government seeks to return grades to pre-pandemic levels.Up to 50,000 candidates this summer are likely to miss out on the top grades they might have expected last year, according to one estimate, throwing applic
  
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