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• UK asking other countries to host ‘return hubs’ for refused asylum seekers, Starmer confirms – as it happened

  15-05-2025 18:00
  PM on trip to announce increased cooperation against people smugglers alongside Albania’s prime minister, Edi Rama. This live blog is closedAll Commons Speakers, at least for the past 30 years, have complained about the government making major announcements to the media first, and not to parliament first. But rarely have any of them sounded quite as furious about this as Lindsay Hoyle, who this morning delivered an extended reprimand to the government about this at the start of an urgent q
  
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• Why was VAT added to private school fees?

  15-05-2025 17:09 via bbc.com
  The government says "every single penny" raised by the policy will be spent on state schools.
  
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• Guidance: Apprenticeship funding rules, 2025 to 2026

  15-05-2025 17:00 via gov.uk
  
  The rules employers and training providers must follow to get funding for training and assessing apprentices in England.
  
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• Guidance: Teachers' pension scheme employer contribution grant for maintained schools and academies with 16 to 19 provision

  15-05-2025 16:42 via gov.uk
  
  Guidance for maintained schools and academies with 16 to 19 provision on the teachers' pension scheme employer contribution grant.
  
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• Guidance: National Tutoring Programme (NTP) allocations for 2023 to 2024 academic year

  15-05-2025 14:21 via gov.uk
  
  Allocations and conditions of grant of the 2023 to 2024 National Tutoring Programme (NTP) funding for schools and local authorities.
  
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• Private schools say fees have gone up by 22% in last year

  15-05-2025 12:59 via bbc.com
  The Independent School Council says private school fees increased by 22.6% in January compared to a year ago.
  
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• More than 1,000 US students punished over speech since 2020, report finds

  15-05-2025 12:00
  Study paints picture of universities increasingly willing to penalize students over expression of their viewsParker Hovis was four courses away from getting his computer science degree from the University of Florida when he was arrested along with several other students at a pro-Palestinian protest on campus last spring. While the charges against him were dismissed and a school conduct committee recommended only minor punishment – a form of probation – the university administration s
  
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• Transparency data: Targeted retention incentive for FE teachers

  15-05-2025 10:30 via gov.uk
  
  Data for the targeted retention incentive for further education (FE) teachers as of 5 May 2025.
  
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• Accredited official statistics: Children accommodated in secure children's homes: 31 March 2025

  15-05-2025 10:30 via gov.uk
  Statistics on approved placements by type, sex, age, ethnicity and length of stay.
  
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• Russian scientist held in Ice jail charged with smuggling frog embryos into US

  15-05-2025 02:23
  Kseniia Petrova, Harvard researcher arrested in February, faces deportation as lawyer calls case ‘meritless’A Harvard scientist who has been held in US immigration detention for months was charged on Wednesday with smuggling frog embryos into the United States, and likely faces deportation.Kseniia Petrova, a Russian scientist and research associate working at Harvard University, was originally detained by immigration officials in February after attempting to enter the United States a
  
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• London dominates England’s social mobility league with top 20 places

  15-05-2025 01:01
  Sutton Trust ‘opportunity index’ measured factors such as children on free school meals passing key GCSEsThe top 20 constituencies with the best social mobility in England are all in London, according to research from a leading education charity that underscores the stark regional divide in children’s life chances.In a report published on Thursday, the Sutton Trust has put together an “opportunity index” by analysing six measures of mobility. These include the share
  
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• Improved PE and sport for more than 240,000 pupils with SEND

  15-05-2025 01:01 via gov.uk
  
  Government launches Inclusion 2028 programme which will improve access to PE and school sports for pupils with SEND.
  
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