Yasmin Butt

Nov 1, 2024 | thetimes.com | Stephanie Bosset |Yasmin Butt

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Apr 25, 2024 | thetimes.com | Tom Ball |Yasmin Butt |Stephanie Bosset |Darren Burchett

In a community centre in Stockport a group of children stand holding hands in a circle with their eyes tightly shut. On the floor in front of them is a collection of crystal pyramids. “It might get a bit warm,” says their teacher, a self-styled shaman called Phil, who tells his students that the rocks can transmit energy into their bodies. “If you’ve got any injuries they might soon go away. These might start healing you.” It is 2.30pm on a Tuesday in January and these children should be in school.

Apr 25, 2024 | thetimes.co.uk | Tom Ball |Yasmin Butt |Stephanie Bosset

In a community centre in Stockport a group of children stand holding hands in a circle with their eyes tightly shut. On the floor in front of them is a collection of crystal pyramids. “It might get a bit warm,” says their teacher, a self-styled shaman called Phil, who tells his students that the rocks can transmit energy into their bodies. “If you’ve got any injuries they might soon go away. These might start healing you.” It is 2.30pm on a Tuesday in January and these children should be in school.

Jan 27, 2024 | thetimes.co.uk | Yasmin Butt |Jack Feeney

Reporters from the Sunday Times Insight team went undercover to investigate allegations that Britain’s best universities were secretly giving preferential treatment to overseas students. Posing as parents of teenagers who were overseas students studying at British boarding schools, they approached the admissions departments of top Russell Group universities directly as well as some of the leading recruitment firms representing these institutions.

Jan 27, 2024 | thetimes.com | Yasmin Butt |Jack Feeney

Reporters from the Sunday Times Insight team went undercover to investigate allegations that Britain’s best universities were secretly giving preferential treatment to overseas students. Posing as parents of teenagers who were overseas students studying at British boarding schools, they approached the admissions departments of top Russell Group universities directly as well as some of the leading recruitment firms representing these institutions.