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State school voices: ‘My A-levels were awful. I feel like I’ve been robbed’
Two students – one forced into a foundation year, another waiting for her GCSEs – describe their exams experience Last week’s A-level results revealed a growing educational divide between state…
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Equality depends on education. The class of 2023 have suffered a grave injustice | Lee Elliot Major
Exam grading has plunged an unlucky cohort into a scramble for university, after a schooling ruined by Covid Robbed of their schooling and forced into the fiercest of races for…
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Do I need to worry about Covid again, after the discovery of Eris, BA.2.86?
Infections and hospitalisation have been rising in the US, Europe and Asia, with more cases in recent months attributed to the EG.5 ‘Eris’ subvariant, while BA.2.86 has 36 mutations that…
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Coronavirus: New Covid variant with ‘high number of mutations’ found in Britain, ‘significant community transmission’ likely
The BA.2.86 mutation was identified in someone with no recent travel history, which means there could already be “significant community transmission” the British Health Security Agency said. Read the original…
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Rebecca Hendin on Covid booster jabs – cartoon
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New Covid variant causing concern among scientists detected in London
It is unclear whether BA.2.86 causes more severe disease but its detection in several countries has put scientists on alert A new Covid variant that is causing concern among scientists…
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Victoria paid EY more than $30m for Covid pandemic health projects
Public health expert says value of contracts cannot be assessed as they are described using ‘waffle words generated by the obfuscation machine’ Follow our Australia news live blog for latest…
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Former Covid medical officer Van-Tam takes role at vaccine maker Moderna
One of UK’s public faces of pandemic, ‘JVT’ was known for football-related metaphors in No 10 briefings Sir Jonathan Van-Tam, the UK’s former deputy chief medical officer who became a…
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Barbenheimer-style gatherings blamed for Covid rise in Germany
Events such as filmgoing craze partly blamed as epidemiologists warn country could have a summer wave German epidemiologists are warning of a summer wave of coronavirus infections, blaming in part…
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A new Covid variant is on the rise – how worried should we be? | Devi Sridhar
It is important we stay level-headed as new subvariants emerge and mutate in the coming weeks and months Covid-19 is creeping back into the news cycle. As we head towards…