Georgia Lambert

London

Education Reporter at The Times

Education reporter at @thetimes Previously attached to The Times Health Commission All views are my own. Also on https://t.co/Q86L9e3pFP

Articles

‘Pointless’ disposable vape ban may drive users back to cigarettes

5 days ago | thetimes.com | Georgia Lambert |Eleanor Hayward

‘The boxes and flavours look the same so the ban is pointless. Young people are still going to find ways to get them,” one festivalgoer said as users shrugged off a national crackdown on disposable vapes. A ban on disposable vapes came into force across the UK on Sunday, but experts have warned it could have the “unintended consequence” of driving thousands back to smoking.
Trump's visa threat creates panic among British Harvard students

1 week ago | thetimes.com | Georgia Lambert |Sian Abigail Bradley
Cambridge University reveals chancellor contender shortlist

1 week ago | thetimes.com | Georgia Lambert
Lord Smith will run to be chancellor of Cambridge University

1 week ago | thetimes.com | Georgia Lambert
'Overreliance' on ADHD diagnosis drives rise in pupil support plans

1 week ago | thetimes.com | Georgia Lambert

The rapid increase in statutory support plans for pupils with special educational needs is being driven by an "overreliance" on diagnoses such as ADHD, experts warn. In the past decade, the number of Education, Health and Care Plans (EHCPs) - statutory documents that outline a child's needs and the support they are entitled to - has soared by 140 per cent. This rise is placing increasing financial strain on local authorities, which are responsible for delivering the services.
Ministers 'to scrap special-needs plans' in cost-saving measure

1 week ago | thetimes.com | Max Kendix |Georgia Lambert
University suspends vice-chancellor over 'serious allegations'

3 weeks ago | thetimes.com | Georgia Lambert
Woman cleared of inducing illegal abortion at 26 weeks in lockdown

4 weeks ago | thetimes.com | Georgia Lambert

A woman has been found not guilty of unlawfully obtaining an abortion during the second Covid lockdown, amid calls to reform a law described by medics as “outdated and harmful”. Nicola Packer, 45, cried after she was acquitted by a jury at Isleworth crown court in southwest London of unlawfully administering to herself a poison or other noxious thing with the intent to procure a miscarriage.
Madeleine McCann suspect’s hard drive suggests she is dead, police say

1 month ago | thetimes.com | Georgia Lambert

A hard drive found at the home of Christian Brueckner, the prime suspect in the Madeleine McCann investigation, contains evidence that she is dead, it has been claimed. The material — never previously made public — has been described by officers as “deeply concerning”, and suggests Brueckner’s obsession with young children. Among the items discovered at his abandoned home, a disused factory he bought for £20,000 in 2008, were children’s clothes, toys, masks, chemicals and guns.
Business Disability Forum criticised for pay-gap ambivalence'

1 month ago | thetimes.com | Georgia Lambert |James Hurley