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
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
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
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
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+
Summarize this content to 1000 words 2 days agoBy Laurence Cawley, BBC News, EssexFamilyMum Alexandra says she wants providers to be held to account if and when they fail to deliverThe county of Essex currently has the worst record in England for assessing children educational health care plans (EHCP) within 20 weeks. What do parents of children with special educational needs want their would-be MPs to know?"I'm feeling really frustrated at the
[ad_1] 2 hours agoBy Sarah Montague, Presenter, BBC World at OneGetty ImagesThe Labour Party has pledged to add tax to private schools fees and use the funds to recruit teachers for state schools.The policy, proposed in Labour’s manifesto, has split opinion. Some argue it is a reasonable way to raise revenue and others think it’s an unfair charge that will fall on parents.The BBC’s Sarah Montague spoke with Sam Freedman, former adviser
Summarize this content to 1000 words BBCLate on a Tuesday afternoon at a community centre in east Newcastle, nine-year-old Lavender is at an after-school group being taught how to link economics to the maths she’s learning at school. This is part of a programme that’s nurturing her ambition to study medicine at university in 2033.That might sound improbable, to dream so far ahead, but there is good reason for this
[ad_1] 21 hours agoBy David Rhodes, BBC News BBCSheffield Hallam University has lost more than £60m in the past seven years, according to its published accounts Universities across Yorkshire have warned that planned cuts to the number of international students coming to the UK could push more institutions into debt. Analysis by BBC News found the 10 major universities in the region made a combined financial loss of nearly £160m in the
Summarize this content to 1000 words 4 days agoBy Becki Thomas, BBC NewsBecki Thomas / BBCDr Sumaiyah Hayat with her eight-year-old sonParents of children with special educational needs (SEN) say fighting to get their children a school place has been a "living hell”.Katy Halliday, 41, from Bourne, Lincolnshire, said she was becoming “increasingly concerned” about her 10-year-old daughter’s mental health while she remained in a mainstream school.Dr Sumaiyah Hayat, 33, of North
