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• The Guardian view on students’ mental health: young adults need tailored support | Editorial

  15-08-2023 19:54
  
  Recent deaths at universities point to the vulnerability of older adolescents. Policymakers should respondParents hope that when young people leave home to take up places at university they will thrive in the new environment. Often, it is teenagers’ first experience of living independently. Nearly all will face some challenges. But in recent years, there have been a number of high-profile instances in which the strain has proved too much. Last week, the father of Jos Winfield, who took his
  
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• Guidance: Parental responsibility measures attendance census: guide

  15-08-2023 17:24 via gov.uk
  
  Guide to help local authorities complete the census 2023.
  
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• ‘It’s vastly complex, even dangerous’: in defence of the recorder, the Marmite of the woodwind world

  15-08-2023 14:00
  
  The 600-year-old school staple has recently faced news of an impending classroom extinction. But a network of passionate enthusiasts are working to ensure its survivalIt’s been well over 30 years since I first reached into a school crate and pulled out a plastic descant recorder, and yet I can still remember the visceral thrill I got from coaxing birdlike sounds with my fingers and mouth. I was a shy five-year-old – I hadn’t started speaking until I was two – and although
  
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• Why is Houston shutting down libraries at some of its poorest public schools? | Francine Prose

  15-08-2023 12:06
  
  Former library spaces will now be ‘multipurpose’ rooms; disruptive students will be stationed there to watch footage of their classroomsAmong the news stories that have shadowed these bright, late-summer days is a recent report from Houston, where the state of Texas has announced its plan to close public school libraries in some of the city’s poorest neighborhoods. The former library spaces will now be used as so-called “multipurpose” rooms, which actually seem to h
  
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• More university strike days planned for September

  15-08-2023 11:32 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The University and College Union says its marking boycott will also continue at 145 universities.
  
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• Tuesday briefing: How thousands of students will be hit by government-imposed ‘grade deflation’

  15-08-2023 07:45
  
  In today’s newsletter: Pupils across the UK await the results of A-levels, BTecs and more – and face marked-down grades to restore ‘pre-pandemic grading’• Sign up here for our daily newsletter, First EditionGood morning. I’m Aamna Mohdin, the Guardian’s community affairs correspondent, and I’ll be helming the newsletter for the rest of the week.Hundreds of thousands of students in England, Wales and Northern Ireland will receive the results of their
  
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• Free childcare: Wales parents want more financial help

  15-08-2023 07:28 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Under-fives are set to get free childcare in England and Welsh parents want this matched.
  
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