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5 days ago |
thetimes.com | Ali Mitib |Nicola Woolcock |DAVID BROWN
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6 days ago |
thetimes.com | Nicola Woolcock
Teenagers can focus on revision for less than 15 minutes before they pick up their phone, a survey has found. Forty per cent of teenagers said that they were constantly distracted by social media apps, such as Snapchat and TikTok, while trying to study for exams. GCSE and A-level exam season has begun and the survey of 1,000 young people aged 15 to 18 and their parents revealed predictable clashes between the generations.
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6 days ago |
thetimes.com | Nicola Woolcock
Preparations are being made for several universities to close, the higher education regulator has suggested, as it predicts that more than two fifths of institutions will be in deficit this year. Universities were relying on unrealistic financial forecasts and some had not responded fast enough to a sharp drop in international students, the Office for Students (OfS) said.
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1 week ago |
thetimes.com | Nicola Woolcock
Families have seen a sharp rise in the cost of sending their children to state school because of the rising price of food and increased demand for materials and technology. British parents pay at least £1,000 a year to send their child to state primary and at secondary the minimum annual cost is almost £2,300. These are increases of 16 per cent and 30 per cent respectively since 2022, according to research by the Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG) and the Centre for Research in Social Policy.
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1 week ago |
thetimes.com | Nicola Woolcock
A killer fungus that infects millions of people a year is likely to spread because of rising temperatures, new climate change research claims. Aspergillus could reach more northerly countries in Europe, Asia and America, according to a study funded by the Wellcome Trust. Researchers forecast that there will be an increased risk of infection from fungi, including a significant spread of some fungal pathogens across Europe.
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