Why Sunderland Makes Sense: Easy Guide to Securing Your University Place in Clearing

Clearing opened on July 2 but the University’s Confirmation and Clearing call centre for students who have received their Level 3 qualification results and are searching for a place at the University, or want their place…

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Doctors at remote Devon hospital get ‘crash course’ after maternity unit shut

Women have told the Guardian they may be forced to give birth without medical help at home or even in a layby as they try to get to hospital in Exeter, more than 50 miles away, on roads often choked with traffic during…

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Trump’s vaccine order is about feelings, not facts | Robert B Shpiner

On Monday, he signed an executive order instructing exactly that. Four decades in intensive care have taught me what a feeling costs once it becomes national policy. Children will be hospitalized who did not need to be.…

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ONS: NHS Talking Therapies Employment Support Cuts Benefits for Jobless, But… Raises Them for the Employed

The analysis looks at the change in the probability of benefits receipt after receiving employment advisor support and psychological therapy, compared with the expected change from psychological therapy only. Employment…

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Automotive manufacturing investment by government only addresses half the problem

But the voice of the automotive workforce is warning that without investment in skills outside the factory gates matched to the commitment to manufacturing, the government’s vision for the automotive sector could fail.…

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‘I’m giving people a happy space’: the man clearing gardens for free – and letting light into strangers’ lives

They would have needed to enter her kitchen, where the window looked into the jungle of swirling, 2-metre-high brambles that made up her back garden, and her shame had spiralled. "I would have been horrified," she says.…

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England set to be one of the first countries to eliminate hepatitis C

The target of treating 80% of all known cases has already been met, and deaths from the virus have fallen by 36% in the last decade, just short of what is needed by 2030. Taking antiviral tablets for 8 to 12 weeks can…

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‘Drops take seconds but change a life for ever’: the women saving India’s remotest people from polio

She hoists the container on one shoulder and steps out into the dark. Tanzeela follows with her own pack, after quickly retying the laces of her canvas shoes. Both women live in Pulwama, a district where summer…

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Life is Rarely Linear. Our Education System Should Stop Pretending that it is

Mine starts backstage at Parklife festival in 2017. I was fortunate enough to be invited as part of Manchester’s tribute following the Arena attack and found myself walking onto the stage alongside Andy Burnham, The 1975…

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AI is Reshaping What it Means to be Skilled

It is already changing how we work, learn and make decisions across almost every sector. The conversation often focuses on the technology itself, but the bigger question is what this means for people. As AI becomes part…

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