11 May Tesco Mobile ads banned for replacing expletives with food names
The ads used ‘shiitake’ and ‘pistachio’ as allusions to swear words in ways that ‘were likely to cause serious and widespread offence’, the ASA ruled...
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11 May Exam stress for pupils greater than before pandemic, headteachers tell survey
A lack of invigilators is putting pressure on schools, say heads....
11 May Mental health support in schools available for 2.4m children, says NHS England
The health service said that a record number of children have sought help....
10 May Covid study aids for GCSEs scrapped for 2023
Heads say the 2023 cohort has been ‘heavily impacted’ by the pandemic....
10 May Academy schools get lower Ofsted ratings, research suggests
Fewer than half of academy schools improved their Ofsted rating from ‘inadequate’ or ‘requires improvement’ to ‘good’ over four years....
09 May Most teachers suffering from depression – survey
On average, teachers’ scores indicate probable clinical depression, survey finds....
09 May Plans to stop students with lower grades going to university might be dropped, minister says
’We might not do it,’ Michelle Donelan says – after criticism that poor and minority ethnic youngsters will miss out...
09 May Final year medical students ‘struggle to afford food’ on NHS bursary ‘no longer fit for purpose’
The British Medical Association says it is ‘deeply worrying’ that students are facing financial hardship while completing their degree...
09 May One in seven households have adults ‘skipping meals or going hungry’
The number of people struggling has risen by 57 per cent in three months, research suggests...
09 May One in seven adults in homes ‘where people have skipped meals or gone hungry’
The “chilling” figures on food insecurity come at a time when the cost-of-living crisis is increasingly hitting households....