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Russia is aiming to triple international students numbers to more than 700,000 by 2025.
Chinese language learning offers singular opportunities for cultural capital.
Feeling that others are disappointed and disapprove of you and you must be perfect puts you at risk for depression.
Suicide rates among UK students have increased by 56% in the last 10 years
In new guidance, students and universities could be banned from censoring controversial speakers on campuses following the first ministerial intervention on free speech in 30 years.
Islamophobic and anti-semitic parents are removing children from school RE lessons.
Most people agree that children should be taught to manage money — but who decides what they learn, and who is responsible for teaching them?
In many of the UK's seaside towns and former coal mining communities, young people are caught up in cycles of deprivation.
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