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• The Observer view on GCSE results: this widening gap will blight children’s lives | Observer editorial

  26-08-2023 20:12 via theguardian.com
  
  The growing discrepancies in attainment could have been avoided if ministers had invested sufficient time, energy and money in educationAugust is always an anxious month for young people awaiting exam results. But this year brought an added stress: Ofqual, the exams regulator, had indicated that this year grade distributions would return to pre-pandemic standards, meaning pupils would be subject to tougher grade boundaries than a year ago. A-level and GCSE results are now in, and together they c
  
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• UK universities offer three-day-week to let students find part-time work

  26-08-2023 17:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Compact teaching timetables will allow cash-strapped undergraduates to dovetail jobs with studiesUniversities are reducing the number of days students are required to be on campus to enable them to work part-time as they struggle to survive the cost of living crisis.Compact teaching timetables, where lectures and seminars are scheduled over two or three days rather than dotted throughout the week, are being introduced by a number of institutions. The move makes it easier for the growing number o
  
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