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• Readers reply: why does my toddler want to play with the box, not the toy?

  27-08-2023 15:00
  
  The long-running series in which readers answer other readers’ questions on subjects ranging from trivial flights of fancy to profound scientific and philosophical conceptsWhy does my toddler want to play with the box, not the toy? Joe Hadley, Kansas CitySend new questions to [email protected]. Continue reading...
  
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• ‘A real opportunity’: how ChatGPT could help college applicants

  27-08-2023 13:00
  
  With the end of affirmative action, generative AI could ‘democratize’ admissions by giving students who don’t have tutors or counselors a leg upChatter about artificial intelligence mostly falls into three basic categories: anxious uncertainty (will it take our jobs?); existential dread (will it kill us all?); and simple pragmatism (can AI write my lesson plan?). In this hazy, liminal, pre-disruption moment, there is little consensus as to whether generative AI is a tool or a t
  
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• The maths of school holidays and being a parent don’t add up | Eva Wiseman

  27-08-2023 09:02
  
  I am counting the days until the school holidays end – and I have space to thinkThe first time I encountered the school summer holidays as a parent I experienced that very real sense of something having gone quite, quite wrong. Like when you stumble upon an eclipse and the birds stop singing or you take a hot swig of cold tea. If there was a manager to complain to I would have called her within a second. Less! The maths of the thing simply did not add up. Six weeks without school, set agai
  
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• Taking stock of ‘the student explosion’, 1966

  27-08-2023 07:02
  
  The learning experience was changing fast in a year when eight new universities were createdA new cohort of school-leavers contemplate their options this month, many of which are available thanks to the 1960s university boom that reshaped British higher education. In 1966, a year when eight new universities were created, the Observer investigated two facets of that ‘student explosion’.First was a day in the life of University of Essex student Jenny Simms, starting on the Clacton bus
  
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• Who has the political vision to close Britain's growing education divide? | Justine Greening

  27-08-2023 07:00
  
  We all have a stake in fixing the regional and class-driven disadvantage that the exam results exposeThis week’s GCSE results, alongside last week’s A-Level results, show a resilient cohort of young people of whom we can be proud, after so much education disruption during Covid. But they also show concerning evidence of a continuing education divide, with London students getting a significantly higher percentage of top GSCE grades, at 28.4%, compared to those in the bottom-placed reg
  
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• Ex-schools tsar blames Tories for north-south exam divide

  27-08-2023 07:00
  
  Sir Kevan Collins says government failure to back his £15bn post-Covid catch-up plan caused the stark disparity in this year’s English GCSE resultsThe former schools recovery tsar, Sir Kevan Collins, has blamed the government’s failure to back his catch-up plan for the stark north-south divide in last week’s GCSE results.While more than 28.4% of entries received the top grades of 7-9 in London, only 17.6% got these scores in the north-east and 18.6% in the north-west of E
  
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• ‘Children without a bed aren’t going to be interested in school’: can England’s north-south education divide be repaired?

  27-08-2023 07:00
  
  This year’s GCSE and A-level results exposed devastating inequalities. But Tory promises to help ring hollowAt St John Henry Newman Catholic college, a state secondary in Oldham, a minibus goes out twice each morning and collects children who don’t want to come to school. But headteacher Glyn Potts knows that persistent absence – which has mushroomed across the country since Covid – often requires more than a lift to solve.“We had a number of children who stopped co
  
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• ‘Children without a bed aren’t going to be interested in school’: can Britain’s north-south education divide be repaired?

  27-08-2023 07:00
  
  This year’s GCSE and A-level results exposed devastating inequalities. But Tory promises to help ring hollowAt St John Henry Newman Catholic college, a state secondary in Oldham, a minibus goes out twice each morning and collects children who don’t want to come to school. But headteacher Glyn Potts knows that persistent absence – which has mushroomed across the country since Covid – often requires more than a lift to solve.“We had a number of children who stopped co
  
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