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England’s school exam system needs an overhaul to lower the mental burdens they place on teenagers striving for the “holy grail” of results, according to the new leader of the Girls’ School Association. Samantha Price, head of Benenden School in Kent, wants reforms on how and when students are examined, including a possible delay to the start of degree courses until January rather than autumn, to allow students more time to make course applications, do…

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Footballer and poverty campaigner says ministers should focus on efforts to end the ‘child hunger pandemic’ and keep the £20 universal credit top-up. The footballer Marcus Rashford has urged the government to end threats to social security payments and focus instead on practical measures to address what he called the pandemic of child hunger affecting the UK. Rashford’s call accompanied new figures which estimate that nearly one in six families with children experienced food insecurity during the…

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There could be choppy waters ahead for the PM, as potential rebels line up over social care, net-zero and planning as the annual Commons clashes ensue today Boris Johnson has a significant inbox of spending, parliamentary rows and a likely reshuffle coming this autumn. As parliament returns today and Whitehall prepares to take a tentative step towards “politics as usual”, The Guardian takes a look at the biggest coming issues of the session. Social care…

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Boris Johnson faces a tax rise battle with his cabinet and MPs as parliament returns on Monday, with the prime minister poised to break manifesto commitments on tax and pensions while plotting a delicate reshuffle. Plans to raise national insurance contributions to increase funding for the NHS and to overhaul social care have been privately criticised by cabinet ministers – and MPs have told the chief whip they could oppose the measures in the Commons.…

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Some cities in Brazil are providing booster shots as part of the strategy to limit Brazil coronavirus cases. The booster shot is being rolled out even though most people have not yet received their second jabs, in a sign of the concern in the country over the highly contagious delta variant in South America. Rio de Janeiro, currently Brazil’s epicentre for the variant and home to one of its largest elderly populations, began administering the…

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Senior U.S. military officials defended the drone strike that killed Afghan family and according to the US State Department hit a suspected Islamic State target and said ‘this strike weakened the extremists’ ability to further disrupt the final phase of the U.S withdrawal and evacuation of thousands of people from Afghanistan’. However, on the ground, the feeling is different. The U.S. drone strike killed 10 members of his family, six of them children, Ahmadi said.…

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