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• ‘It redefined my values’: should you go on a year abroad?

  10-09-2023 16:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Most universities now offer students opportunities to study, work and live abroad, no matter what course you’re studying.The 2024 league tableFor Sonya Barlow, studying in Rome was the best experience of her life. Now a BBC presenter, she believes spending part of her business degree in Italy in 2013/14 “made me who I am”.“I had never lived away from my family home but suddenly I was living alone in a different country. It redefined my values and allowed me to be me: I ex
  
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• What, a school revamp once every 440 years isn’t enough? | David Mitchell

  10-09-2023 11:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Rishi Sunak is evading his duty of care after slashing millions from the budget for repairing schools when he was chancellorThe government has had a busy week trying to deal with the school buildings crisis. This hasn’t involved doing anything about all the dangerous school buildings – it’s far too late for that. That’s not the job of modern politicians anyway: their aim isn’t to improve the country, merely to evade responsibility for its shortcomings. Navigate towa
  
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• Is the Russell Group still relevant?

  10-09-2023 11:00 via theguardian.com
  
  The prestigious cabal of top universities want you to think they will always be on top. But in the real world, things may be changingThe 2024 league tablePrimary school headteachers have been known to tell parents of four-year-olds: “If your child comes here, they will go to a Russell Group university.” That might be an enticing marketing pitch for a school, but is the Russell Group of universities worthy of it?What started in the early 1990s as an informal club of prominent universi
  
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• Revealed: covert deal to cut help for pupils in England with special needs

  10-09-2023 09:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Government contract aims to reduce the number of specialist care plans by a fifthThe government has quietly signed a contract targeting 20% cuts to the number of new education plans for children with special educational needs and disabilities (Send) to bring down costs, the Observer can reveal.Then junior education minister Claire Coutinho – recently promoted to the cabinet as energy secretary – subsequently told MPs that no targets were in place. Continue reading...
  
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• UK government did not carry out detailed surveys before it bought free schools sites

  10-09-2023 08:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Freedom of information requests show such was haste to open new schools unsuitable buildings were purchased without checks for asbestos or unstable concreteThe government failed to carry out detailed surveys that would reveal problems such as asbestos and unstable concrete before buying up sites for its flagship free schools, an Observer investigation has found.Free schools were launched by Michael Gove in 2010 with the promise that they would transform education in England. More than 650 are cu
  
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• How Essex found itself at the heart of the school concrete crisis

  10-09-2023 02:25 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Families in the county which has the highest number of schools affected by Raac share their stories.
  
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