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• ‘The buildings were a sign of civic pride’: anger as art colleges around the UK close their doors

  17-09-2023 16:00
  
  Colleges that once fostered talent – often from working-class backgrounds – have vanished at an alarming rate. Two beneficiaries of that system are documenting its demiseOn a trip to Norfolk back in 2009, artist and academic Matthew Cornford decided to take a nostalgic look at his old art school. Great Yarmouth College of Art and Design may not have been an elite establishment – one of its best known alumni is Keith Chapman, creator of Bob the Builder – but the grand buil
  
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• Discounts and freebies: make the most of your money as a student in the UK

  17-09-2023 14:00
  
  Arm yourself with these useful tips to save cash on food, TV and music, beauty and moreEvery penny counts when you’re studying, and there are lots of discounts around that can help ease the cost pressures on students. Here are some tips to help you avoid paying the full price.• Sign up to sites and apps such as UniDays and Student Beans, which list scores of student discounts on everything from takeaways to tech. Meanwhile, the Totum card and app (formerly known as the NUS Extra stude
  
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• Values we teach our kids change – but good manners are timeless | Joanna Moorhead

  17-09-2023 12:00
  
  We no longer expect blind obedience from our children, but if we teach them to be curious about the world and tolerant of each other, then good manners will followDo as you’re told! As a child growing up in the 1960s and 70s, I seemed to hear that phrase all the time; these days, it’s rare to hear parents or teachers utter it. So it was no surprise to read last week that the importance we put on our children being obedient has, according to the World Values Survey, plummeted in the p
  
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• My son’s school is only across the street, but that doesn’t make his journey any easier…

  17-09-2023 10:32
  
  It is still too great a distance for our homesick boyWe were touched by our son’s reticence to leave our company and go back to school, so reminded him we’d just be across the road. We were speaking literally here, since his school is on our street and, this year, his entrance directly faces our front door. It’s cut our 20-second commute down to a few seconds, but this was still too great a distance for our homesick boy.‘I used to travel for half an hour to get to primary
  
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• ‘It’s a power game’: students accused in university rape hearings call in lawyers

  17-09-2023 09:00
  
  Parents of young men facing conduct panels over assaults are raising the stakes by bringing barristers to them, academics sayUniversities left to tackle rising tide of sexual assaultsParents of male students accused of rape at university are starting to bring in barristers to help them avoid expulsion, the Observer has learned.As the number of serious sexual assaults escalates across universities, experts say female students often do not want to go to the police, fearing delays and traumatising
  
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• Hardcore porn, choking and rape: UK universities left to tackle rising tide of sexual assaults

  17-09-2023 09:00
  
  As on-campus sexual misconduct cases escalate, there are increasing calls to talk openly with young people about sex, pleasure and consent‘It’s a power game’: students accused in university rape hearings call in lawyers
  Among the stalls encouraging students to sign up for rock climbing, parkour, the law society, and inevitably the pub crawl group, university freshers’ fairs have for many years now given out free rape alarms to young women. This conjures up the image of an
  
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• Teachers need guidance to resolve issues of gender identity in the classroom | Sonia Sodha

  17-09-2023 08:02
  
  Government must urgently plug the policy gap currently being filled by ideologyThe argument about the relative importance of sex and gender identity – whether someone feeling they are male or female should replace the reality of sex in law and society – has become one of the most polarising identity issues of our time. But out of this toxic mess a sensible consensus has emerged: both parties have largely ditched commitments to enshrine in law the view that people should be able to se
  
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