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• UK universities face more strikes unless employers resume talks, union warns

  14-08-2023 21:15
  
  University and College Union is preparing a new ballot that could lead to marking boycott continuing and strikes lasting into 2024Universities across the UK will face another round of strikes next month unless employers agree to return to the negotiating table, the University and College Union has warned.A marking boycott that has left tens of thousands of students without their degree result this summer will continue, the union said, while preparations will get under way for a new strike ballot
  
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• UK should embrace foreign students or lose them to rival countries, warns Ucas chief

  14-08-2023 19:38
  
  Many institutions have become increasingly reliant on higher fees from international students to help cover costsBritain should warmly welcome international students joining universities across the country or risk losing out to the US, Canada and Australia, the higher education admissions chief has said.The intervention came amid concerns that domestic students hoping to begin undergraduate courses this autumn could lose out to international applicants. Some courses in clearing in the run-up to
  
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• Guidance: School census autumn 2023 to summer 2024: school summary report

  14-08-2023 18:06 via gov.uk
  
  Specifications for software suppliers developing school summary reports for the school censuses in autumn 2023, spring 2024 and summer 2024.
  
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• Teach young people to accept and value who they are | Letter

  14-08-2023 18:02
  
  Retired consultant psychotherapist Martin Wells on tackling a culture that iscausing increasing mental health problems in childrenSally Weale’s article (Universities must treat students better, says UK father whose son killed himself, 9 August) highlights the painful reality of parents whose children are suffering with serious mental health problems at university. I have worked as a supervisor for university mental health advisers for the last five years. I regularly hear of issues of suic
  
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• US university discovers 142-year-old observatory buried on campus

  14-08-2023 17:05
  
  Michigan State discovery of building demolished in 1920s provides rare on-campus experience for archaeology studentsConstruction workers at Michigan State University hit something hard earlier this summer while installing hammock poles into the ground outside a residence hall.A closer inspection then revealed it was the foundation of a 140-year-old observatory that was demolished in the 1920s and – over the course of a century – became buried underground. Continue reading...
  
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• I smoked neurotically on the day of my A-level results. But I would be much more nervous today | Zoe Williams

  14-08-2023 16:48
  
  It took 26 cigarettes before I was ready to open that envelope. The situation is now harder in every way – and trite statements about success and failure won’t comfort school leaversIt is A-level results week, and I like to spend it scandalising young people with my reminiscing. That probably sunny August morning on which my results arrived, in 1989, I didn’t open the envelope until I had smoked all the cigarettes in the house – 26 in total. It took ages, and by the time
  
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• Idaho law hands parents more power in choosing school curriculums. It’s led to major changes

  14-08-2023 11:00
  
  In some districts, the law has brought parents and teachers in closer alignment. In others, it’s poised to harden divisionsWhen JD Davis, the department chair of English at a high school in Twin Falls, Idaho, was told last year that half of the committee he was leading to pick new texts and materials for the district’s English language arts classrooms would be parents and community members, he objected.“I said, ‘I’m not going to have parents involved! They don&rsquo
  
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• Disadvantaged students to bear brunt of grade deflation, say experts

  14-08-2023 01:01
  
  Social Mobility Foundation says it expects GCSE and A-level attainment gap based on income to grow this yearDisadvantaged students are likely to bear the brunt of grade deflation when this year’s A-level and GCSE grades are published, according to experts, who said the government’s decision to impose pre-pandemic grading in England was premature.This week hundreds of thousands of sixth-formers in England, Wales and Northern Ireland will receive the results of their A-level, BTec and
  
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• ‘Definitely more difficult’: a student’s view on A-level grade deflation

  14-08-2023 01:01
  
  Daniel, who had to get up at 3am to study during lockdown, now faces prospect of grades being loweredThree years ago, at the height of the Covid pandemic and with schools in England closed to all but the most vulnerable pupils, Daniel, 18, got up at 3am each morning to complete the remote learning sent by his school in Leicester. “It was the only time I could get enough quiet to do my work,” he said.“During Covid each morning the school would send out emails with tasks to compl
  
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