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• Cost of living: 'Without a job, I'd have to turn down my uni place'

  23-08-2023 18:05 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Young people say the cost of living crisis is shaping their decisions about higher education.
  
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• Youth mental illness drives rise in benefit claims, study suggests

  23-08-2023 17:03 via bbc.co.uk
  
  There has been a sharp rise in people in their 20s and 30s claiming disability benefits, a think tank says.
  
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• Shaniqua Okwok says London drama school told her to act like ‘slave in chains’

  23-08-2023 13:27
  
  Actor accuses Royal Central School of Speech and Drama of paying lip service to anti-discrimination pledges after 2015 incidentThe actor Shaniqua Okwok has criticised the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, claiming she was told to embrace her “inherited trauma” and act like a slave in chains during an acting exercise.Okwok, who appeared in Steve McQueen’s series Small Axe and the award-winning drama It’s a Sin, accused the prestigious drama school of paying lip ser
  
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• UK academics urge Royal Society to condemn fossil fuel industry

  23-08-2023 12:00
  
  Exclusive: Letter signed by more than 1,200 leading figures calls for ‘unambiguous statement’ about climate crisisThe Royal Society is under pressure from more than 1,200 leading academics to issue a clear condemnation of the fossil fuel industry.The academics have written to the association of the world’s most eminent scientists calling for an “unambiguous statement about the culpability of the fossil fuel industry in driving the climate crisis”. Continue reading..
  
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• Guidance: Apply to open a special free school in Cambridgeshire, Kent, Merton or Norfolk

  23-08-2023 10:30 via gov.uk
  
  Sets out the process to apply to open a new special free school.
  
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• Press release: More support for children with special educational needs

  23-08-2023 10:18 via gov.uk
  
  Over a thousand new special school places confirmed, as additional seven special free schools to be built
  
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• British students urged to get meningitis jab to avoid serious illness

  23-08-2023 01:01
  
  Health agency reports about one in eight teenagers old enough to start college have missed out on free MenACWY vaccinationStudents heading to university should make sure they are vaccinated against four potentially deadly types of meningitis, health experts warned after figures showed many young people remained unprotected.The vaccination, MenACWY, protects against four groups of meningococcal bacteria, which naturally live at the back of the throat in about one in 10 people without making them
  
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