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• State school voices: ‘My A-levels were awful. I feel like I’ve been robbed’

  20-08-2023 12:00
  
  Two students – one forced into a foundation year, another waiting for her GCSEs – describe their exams experienceLast week’s A-level results revealed a growing educational divide between state school pupils and those who have been privately educated – one which has been exacerbated by Covid. Experts believe this week’s GCSE results are likely to show a similar trend. The Observer spoke to two state school students about their hopes for the future. Continue reading..
  
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• How to choose the best UK student bank account

  20-08-2023 11:00
  
  From the ‘must-have’ overdraft to money off food and rail travelStudent life brings with it a different kind of learning curve as young people across the country embark on a new adventure and try to find ways to make their money go further. And in a cost of living crisis, the curve is even steeper. A survey carried out for the personal finance website Save the Student last year showed that 82% of students worried about making ends meet, while one in 10 had resorted to using food bank
  
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• Equality depends on education. The class of 2023 have suffered a grave injustice | Lee Elliot Major

  20-08-2023 11:00
  
  Exam grading has plunged an unlucky cohort into a scramble for university, after a schooling ruined by CovidRobbed of their schooling and forced into the fiercest of races for university places, this is surely the Covid generation’s unluckiest student cohort. In years to come the bruised and battle-hardened class of 2023 will always carry with them a sense of intergenerational injustice – whatever success most will go on to make of their lives. What made this summer’s wait for
  
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• New Brit School North in Bradford gets go-ahead

  20-08-2023 07:01 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Plans for a new performing arts school to match its successful London namesake are approved.
  
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• Tories under fire after dramatic fall in school sport in England

  20-08-2023 07:00
  
  New figures undermine Rishi Sunak’s claims to boost PE ahead of Women’s World Cup finalThe number of hours young people spend doing PE and sport in secondary schools in England has fallen by more than 12% since the 2012 London Olympics, despite promises by ministers that the games would “inspire a generation” and kickstart a massive expansion of sport in the state sector.The fall is recorded in the latest figures released by the government, which show a drop from 326,277
  
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• Private school students in England twice as likely to earn top A-level grades as state pupils

  20-08-2023 06:00
  
  This year’s results show attainment gap is widening, despite Tory pledges to close itPupils in private schools are more than twice as likely to achieve A or A* grades as those in the state sector, according to official figures that expose a widening attainment gap in education in England after more than 13 years of Conservative government.The statistics, released by the regulator Ofqual, follow last week’s A-level results and come despite repeated pledges by ministers to close the di
  
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• Miyu Pranoto: Dance prodigy, 9, blazes trail for girls

  20-08-2023 01:17 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Miyu is shattering conventions as she breakdances her way to fame.
  
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