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msn.com | Simon Gilbert |Alix Hattenstone
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bbc.com | Simon Gilbert |Alix Hattenstone
Is the UK becoming less attractive for students? Simon Gilbert and Alix HattenstoneBBCJingwen Yuan has been unable to find work in the UK since graduating with a masters degreeThe UK has been one of the most popular destinations for international students in recent years - but is its appeal starting to fade? Home Office figures show UK sponsored study visas dropped by 31% – from 600,024 in 2023 to 415,103 in 2024 - and with this, money many university cities rely on.
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msn.com | Alix Hattenstone |Kristian Johnson
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yahoo.com | Alix Hattenstone |Kristian Johnson
Many families struggle to take trips during school holidays because of the cost. For mum Kelly, it's her job as a circus acrobat. "I work seven days a week and only get January and February off each year," she says. The 32-year-old was fined for taking her daughter Kaida out of school for a two-week holiday to the Canary Islands in January 2024. Kaida has a main school which she attends week to week from Wednesday to Friday.
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msn.com | Alix Hattenstone |Kristian Johnson
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yahoo.com | Alix Hattenstone |Kristian Johnson
"My son doesn't do well in large crowds," says Sarah, who paid a £320 fine for taking her two children on holiday with her partner during school term time. Sarah's 10-year-old son, Tyler, has autism and ADHD, and struggles to cope with large groups of tourists during the school holidays. It means Sarah has to choose between avoiding popular destinations, or visiting them in the quieter periods during the school term.
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Nov 14, 2024 | 
yahoo.com | Alix Hattenstone
The children’s commissioner for England believes some families are being "forced" to educate their children at home after a BBC investigation found the number making the switch has doubled in five years. UK councils received more than 66,000 notifications of children being moved to home education in 2023-2024 - up from 28,000 in 2019-2020, figures from freedom of information (FOI) requests show.
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Sep 4, 2024 | 
aol.com | Fosiya Ismail |Alix Hattenstone
September 4, 2024 at 6:00 AMStewart Holmes said reading courses at Birmingham central library helped to turn his life around [Joel Holmes-Billing/BBC]A former homeless man said books helped to change his life after learning to read at Birmingham's central library. Stewart Holmes added his voice to the campaign to save England's under-threat libraries as a BBC investigation found more than 180 council-run libraries had either closed or been handed over to volunteer groups in the UK since 2016.
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Sep 2, 2024 | 
yahoo.com | Paul Lynch |Pilar Tomás |Alix Hattenstone
More than 180 council-run libraries have either closed or been handed over to volunteer groups in the UK since 2016, BBC analysis has found. More deprived communities were four times more likely to have lost a publicly-funded library in that time, while 2,000 jobs have also been lost. The figures “laid bare the scale of the crisis facing public libraries", a body that supports the insitutions across the UK said.
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Jun 2, 2024 | 
bbc.com | Alix Hattenstone
Move to home education biggest since pandemicAlix Hattenstone,BBC EnglandKim/BBCMillie helps her mum Kim run a nature group A BBC investigation has found the number of children moving to home education in the UK is at its highest level since the pandemic. Councils received almost 50,000 notifications in the last academic year from families wanting to take their children out of school. This does not include children already being home educated.
