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English universities can raise tuition fees if they meet ‘tough’ standards, says Phillipson Measure, which will allow increase in line with inflation, is part of white paper on post-16 education and skills University tuition fees in England are to rise in line with inflation, but only for institutions that meet “tough new quality thresholds”, the government has announced. In an attempt to put the higher education sector on a firmer financial footing, all institutions will benefit from increased fees for the next two academic years, starting next September, the education secretary, Bridget Phillipson, told MPs on Monday. Continue reading...

English universities can raise tuition fees if they meet ‘tough’ standards, says Phillipson

Kemi Badenoch wants to end ‘rip-off degrees’ – but I wouldn’t have created Horrid Henry without mine | Francesca Simon I studied Old and Middle English. Although I didn’t know it, I couldn’t have chosen a better subject to train me to become a children’s author, says author Francesca Simon

Kemi Badenoch wants to end ‘rip-off degrees’ – but I wouldn’t have created Horrid Henry without mine | Francesca Simon

Carpool karaoke's gone shite

French PM Lecornu has just explained his resignation: political parties all behave as if they have a majority in parliament; their intransigence and egotism is making it impossible. #France

history teacher in 50 years: So in September, that’s when the president signed an executive order criminalizing anti-fascism and saying all resistance would be crushed

student: oh so that’s when the whole country realized they were living under fascism

teacher: haha what? oh no lol not at all. no.

As a point of information, in Spain a separate digital health ID card has all my health & prescriptions data: it is used by me whenever I go to the pharmacy for a prescribed medicine, or the clinic to see the GP, or to the hospital for an appointment.

Why on earth does the UK not do the same? 🤷‍♂️

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I have a sinking feeling they’ll do exactly this

Everyone, from big business CEOs to small business owners to highly paid professionals and lowly paid service staff, has urged the Chancellor to tax someone else.

From the new Private Eye, out now.

"The big orange elephant in the room that we're all tiptoeing around is the fact that Mandelson was chosen for that position, to be the interface with President Trump, not despite his questionable connections and his rather ephemeral morals, but because of them. Because he shares them with Trump."

There was a missed chance to suggest the new Corbyn-Sultana party calls itself Level Up 😂

Highlighted by the brilliant @hannahfearn.bsky.social on @ohgodwhatnow.bsky.social - this is shameful. A single person needs to earn £30,500 a year to reach a minimum acceptable standard of living in Britain in 2025. A couple with 2 children needs to earn £74,000 a year between them.

'I'm angry. It's not right' - locals want asylum hotels shut, but are shared houses the answer? The BBC's UK editor, Ed Thomas, meets local people and asylum seekers in two towns in north-west England.

This was inevitably going to happen, wasn’t it? Close the hotels and the lEgiTiMaTe cOnCeRns become about asylum seekers living in actual houses. Because it was never about the hotels, as such.

While the BBC listens attentively, nods vigorously and puts it at the top of its website.

I HAVE EXCITING NEWS

There's an emergency Midnight Mass episode on Rayner's resignation and the reshuffle that followed that will be appearing on your app in a few hours.

AND Sunday School as normal in two days.

A xx

No I do totally agree with that, I’d love to have the money for 40k to seem small - I suppose I meant in the context of an 800k house purchase it feels small. Especially compared to some of the issues that should be dominating our media but aren’t

If only we could kick up as much of a fuss over things that matter as we have done about a woman that got her taxes slightly wrong.

Suspect the precedent of having breached the ministerial code, despite having acted with integrity, might be problematic for more than just Angela Rayner

It reduces emergency admissions, unnecessary investigations and mortality rates, and raises patient satisfaction. Maybe that’s where the government should be putting its money.

‘MD’ on the NHS summer of discontent, only in the new Private Eye, out now.

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Girl Guides of Canada suspends U.S. trips over restrictions, safety concerns

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‘I had her right in front of me. And now she’s gone’: how one mother lost her daughter to mental illness Studying in London before taking up a high-flying job in New York, Naina Mishra seemed set for a bright future – until she began retreating from friends and family into a paranoid spiral even her mother couldn’t break. What does her story reveal about the dangers of young adult estrangement?

‘I had her right in front of me. And now she’s gone’: how one mother lost her daughter to mental illness

More than fifty private schools shut since Labour put VAT on fees Department for Education defends ending tax breaks for independent institutions, after parents lost a legal battle at the High Court this year — view map

The headline here should say:

"Number of private schools increases by 35 - showing fears of an exodus to be unfounded".

(The increase is mentioned way down the article.)

www.thetimes.com/article/19ef...

And an additional "BRAVO!" to @quietriotpod.bsky.social listeners who added a big bump to that graph.

I was explaining to my Ukrainian colleague the phrase ‘There’s no such thing as a free lunch’. She told me the equivalent in Ukrainian is ‘The only free cheese is in the mousetrap’ - which is so much better

A sign on a metal bookshelf that says "Apocalyptic Fiction has been moved to Current Affairs"

little library gallows humor for ya :'D

i dno, maybe time to let it go

There’s a Hindi phrase (usually said by dads) for when someone leaves the lights on that translates to “Is it Diwali again?” A French version is “We’re not in Versailles!” But my favourite version, by far, is the Serbian “Was your grandpa Nikola Tesla?”

I don’t disagree that we need to talk about this issue, but my value to society is not determined by whether or not I choose to have kids .

I tried my hardest but lost it when you got to the question on carbon footprint of having children. Alex did a wonderful job of keeping it balanced, but I certainly hope no one struggling to have kids listens to such an insensitive sexist narrative

I've not been so excited about a film in years. Gunn really truly gets it: what's radical about this character, the ideas embedded in the character

www.thetimes.com/culture/film...

With this vote, Congress makes ICE the highest-funded federal law enforcement agency in history, with more money per year at its disposal over the next four years than the budgets of the FBI, DEA, ATF, US Marshals, and Bureau of Prisons combined.