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Just because your children are learning about LGBT relationships, it won't make them gay.
The marketisation of higher education is just a symptom of what’s wrong with universities.
Parents of autistic children in Wales face a choice between English-medium specialist education or Welsh-medium mainstream education.
When a degree is not enough, how can students make themselves more employable?
Young people from working class backgrounds in socially deprived areas are far less likely to choose, or have the opportunity, to study languages at secondary school, than their more affluent peers.
New research pinpoints why so many students struggle to nod off at university.
Educational inequality in the UK takes root before children even begin primary school.
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Children’s lives are being stifled. No longer are they able to spend time with friends unsupervised, explore their community or hang around in groups without being viewed with suspicion.
For the UK government, the symbolism of leaving an institution associated with the EU seems to trump all other considerations.
Children in England are among the most tested and unhappiest in the western world.
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