Phone operators get busy at London South Bank University. Photograph: Myung Jung Kim/Empics With 16 years’ experience handling the clearing process at Greenwich University, head of admissions Bev Woodhams is something of an old pro. But as the phone lines open on A-level results day, even she is feeling nervous. With demand for university places [...]
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Online football fails to score with web viewers
Leeds United’s match against Millwall on Saturday was offered as pay-per-view online. Here Millwall’s Jimmy Adbou remonstrates with David Forde. Photograph: Craig Brough/Action Images New research shows a distinct lack of appetite for internet streaming of football matches, just as the Football League looks to the web for new revenue streams. Just 2% of respondents [...]
Care leavers need financial support to help them go to university
Eileen Munro spent her childhood in care. She left school at 16 and returned to education 16 years later. “I absolutely adored education. I used to steal library books as a child,” remembers Eileen Munro, 47, who spent her childhood in the care system. But after her adoption broke down – “my adoptive parents were [...]
Headteacher Charlie Taylor’s unconventional approach pays off
Charlie Taylor at the Willows school: ‘The first few months, it was like a war zone. I bought a machine-washable suit, I got spat on so much’. Photograph: Graham Turner for the Guardian The first time I met Charlie Taylor, the straight-talking headmaster of the Willows school, a north London primary for children with severe [...]
