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Across the published tables, that total breaks down as 6,722,292 results: GCSE Full Course accounts for 92.2% (6,199,256), VTQs 6.6% (445,349), Entry Level Certificates 0.7% (48,970), GCSE Short Course 0.3% (22,697) and…
Lecturers, advisors, and admissions staff are ready to offer guidance, reassurance, and practical advice to anyone unsure about their grades or considering next steps. Whether learners are exploring A Levels…
The vaccine, developed by drug companies Merck & Co or MSD, and Moderna, was given to patients with high-risk melanoma, a type of skin cancer, after they had surgery. Early results show this new jab extended the length…
We consider four practical moves providers can make now. The skills sector has long been challenged to make long-term decisions in a short-term environment. Providers grapple with planning investments, responding to…
She likes going out, seeing her friends and wants to go to university next year. Unlike most of her peers, however, she also cares for her father, Paul, who has significant mobility and memory issues after suffering a…
Patients still have to wait for the treatment to be approved by the medicines regulator before it is made available on the NHS. The treatment, known as Onswik and made by Eli Lilly, is said to work as well as daily…
The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH) has reviewed about 81 studies into vaping and said it is linked to higher rates of breathing problems and evidence of harm in babies whose mothers used vapes…
The Standard published a 2,000-word piece by Zvezdelina Stankova last week, in which the professor said some of her math students were "five to eight years" behind and lacked a "middle school" education on fractions and…
Last week, the story of Rhianan Rudd ("Britain's Youngest Terrorist") was unpacked and its many sadder parts laid out for inspection in The Schoolgirl Terrorist? In Love You to Death, it is the turn of Lisa…
All three were administered with very basic pain relief, ie a small amount of local anaesthetic, which I would compare to numbing a gum with a piece of ice and then proceeding with root canal treatment. I was offered a…