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rewrite this title Toddler found in road after escaping nursery

Summarize this content to 1000 words A toddler was found wandering in the middle of a road after escaping unnoticed from a nursery.Talks are now being held between council chiefs, Wales’ care inspectors and Tiny Tots Llanfoist Nursery in Monmouthshire to stop it happening again.The boy, understood to be between 12 and 18 months old, was spotted by two drivers on Llanellen Road, Llanfoist, at about 11:00 BST on 27
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rewrite this title University of Warwick student group suspended in Nazi song row

Summarize this content to 1000 words 19 hours agoBy Susie Rack, BBC News, West MidlandsGoogleThe University of Warwick's students' union has suspended the activities of a Conservative Association group after a "reprehensible" video was shared onlineA university has suspended a student group while it investigates a video that appears to show members dancing to a Nazi marching song.The University of Warwick described the video, which was shared on social media and in
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rewrite this title The contentious exam deciding the fate of India’s doctors

Summarize this content to 1000 words 5 days agoBy Umang Poddar, BBC Hindi, Delhi • Saradha V, BBC Tamil, ChennaiGetty ImagesStudent groups across India have held protests since the NEET exam results were declaredWhen India’s Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan took oath in the new session of parliament, many opposition MPs chanted “NEET” and “shame”.The MPs were protesting against a recent controversy that has engulfed a key national exam overseen by Mr Pradhan’s ministry.Every year, hundreds
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rewrite this title Police warning over ‘eye-watering’ rise in online sex offences

Summarize this content to 1000 words 20 hours agoBy Suzanne Allan, BBC Scotland NewsBBCDetective Chief Superintendent Sam Faulds, head of public protection for Police Scotland who leads on child protectionDetectives have issued a warning to online sex offenders as the Scottish school holidays get under way.With youngsters likely to spend more time at home and more time online, Police Scotland has revealed a rise in online sexual crime against children. New figures
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rewrite this title Rugby private school shares VAT lobbying tips with parents

Summarize this content to 1000 words 20 hours agoBy Joshua Nevett, @JoshuaNevett, BBC political reporter, Coventry and WarwickshireGoogleThe head of Princethorpe College has urged parents to voice concerns about Labour's plan to add tax to private school feesThe headmaster of a private school in Rugby has urged parents to lobby parliamentary candidates over Labour’s plan to add tax to private school fees.Ed Hester emailed parents to say Princethorpe Foundation was "scenario planning" for
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rewrite this title University of Northampton offers voluntary severance to 500 staff

Summarize this content to 1000 words 2 days agoBy Martin Heath, BBC News, NorthamptonshireBBCThe University says it has "has no wish to part ways with valued colleagues"A University is offering a voluntary severance scheme to 500 staff to help it cope with a predicted £19.3m deficit.The University of Northampton (UON) said a drop in international student numbers was partly to blame.The institution said other factors were also involved, including rising pension costs
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rewrite this title Middlesbrough to auto-enrol pupils for free school meals

Summarize this content to 1000 words Children in Middlesbrough who qualify for free school meals will be automatically enrolled in a pilot scheme from September.At present families must apply for the meals, meaning some pupils slip through the net.Under auto-enrolment, parents would remain able to opt out.Professor Amelia Lake from Teesside University said she "strongly welcomed the move" but said there is more to be done around the issue of
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rewrite this title AI can beat real university students in exams, study suggests

Summarize this content to 1000 words University exams taken by fake students using artificial intelligence beat those by real students and usually went undetected by markers, in a limited study.University of Reading researchers created 33 fictitious students and used AI tool ChatGPT to generate answers to module exams for an undergraduate psychology degree at the institution.They said the AI students' results were half a grade boundary higher on average than
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rewrite this title When your uni neighbour turns out to be a prince

Summarize this content to 1000 words KyodoThe future emperor (second left) and Keith George (right) as student friendsIt's always something of a lottery who you end up living beside at university.For Keith George, an American student at Oxford in 1983, it turned out to be the future emperor of Japan.The crown prince, now Emperor Naruhito, was in the room next door at Merton College."It was a little bit of a
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rewrite this title ‘Within hours you can be on the street”

Summarize this content to 1000 words 21 hours agoBy James Bovill, BBC Midlands TodayBBCAxel Pritchedd was forced to move out after telling their housemate they were non-binary"Everything can be good one day, and the day after you decide you're going to come out to your family, and within 10 hours you could be on the streets." Dean Marsh from the homelessness charity Concrete, based in Stoke-on-Trent, has helped more than 80 LGBT+