All news on the topic: Education

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'Electrical signals in breasts could help us understand why cancer spreads'
Dr Miriam Stoppard shares exciting research from Imperial College London on the electrical charges given out by cancer cells, which could lead to targeted attacks and new treatments
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Texas governor Greg Abbott claims he can 'kick as good as Brett Maher'
Greg Abbott has piled in on Brett Maher's kicking nightmare, with the governor of Texas claiming he can kick just as well as the Dallas Cowboys star on current form
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Boy, 6, who shot teacher 'said he wanted to set her on fire and watch her die'
Teachers voiced their concerns over the six-year-old boy's behaviour but were ignored after he shot Abby Zwerner, 25, at Richneck Elementary School in Newport News, Virginia
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Gary Glitter's 'love child' forced to leave school to work in poultry factory
Gary Glitter's daughter Truc Ly has been a child labourer since she was 14, enduring 12-hour shifts, seven days a week at an industrial complex near the Cambodian border
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Man holds 9 world records for putting everything from forks to straws in beard
Joel Strasser's beard adornments items include everything from toothpicks, straws, chopsticks and Christmas baubles. Golf tees, forks, clothes pegs and pencils have all found temporary homes there
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Boy, 3, becomes UK's youngest MENSA member and can count to 100 in six languages
At the age of three years and eight months, Teddy has the letter and word recognition of a child of eight years and 10 months old, according to his assessment from MENSA
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Doctor, 30, dies after car she's driving reverses into river in tragic accident
Dr Sara Ahmed, 30, worked at the Mayo University Hospital in Castlebar, Ireland, and tragically passed away after the car she was driving ended up in a river after breaching a safety barrier
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Prince Harry's army instructor says story in Spare book 'dramatised'
Ex-Sergeant Major Michael Booley insists every detail of training flights is discussed beforehand, adding he is 'in shock' after learning about Prince Harry's dramatic account in his memoir Spare
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Dillon Danis makes promise to Jake Paul as YouTuber starts MMA training
Bellator MMA fighter Danis is a jiu-jitsu black belt, and decided to take a shot at his long-time rival Paul after watching videos of his first day training jiu-jitsu
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Student wrestler missing after being hit by giant wave during 'ocean plunge'
San Francisco State University student Hamzah Alsaudi, 22, disappeared beneath the waves off Esplanade Beach, California, US, on January 19, after jumping into the ocean with friends
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Pensioner racks up £42k in late fees after returning library book 58 years late
David Hickman, who was born and raised in Dudley, was just 17 when he borrowed ‘The Law for Motorists’ from the library in 1964 and returned it 58 years later
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'Voters see through Sunak's market forces game - that's why they back strikes'
Brian Reade says the Tories are fine with huge salaries and bonuses in the private sector - it's the market - but won't apply the same logic to public sector wage rises
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Student who died after 4 remote consultations would have lived if seen in person
The coroner heard how David Nash’s condition deteriorated on November 2 and he and his partner made five calls to NHS 111, which his parents have described as “shambolic”.
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Voters back teachers' strike as they accuse Rishi Sunak of being 'absent'
A Redfield and Wilton poll for the Mirror found 39% support the teachers’ strike compared to 32% who oppose it. The public believes Rishi Sunak has been 'absent' from efforts to end walkouts across public sector
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Woman forced into 1,000-mile daily commute because she can't afford city rents
Giuseppina Giuliano, 29, wakes up at dawn every morning to travel 995 miles, spending nine hours on a high-speed train to Naples so she can work as a school janitor in Italy's northern financial hub, Milan
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Mum hits out over 'miserable' school meals that 'leave her son starving'
The mum shared three lunchtime food photographs that her son had taken. She is upset that her child is coming home hungry due to what she says is 'terrible food on offer'
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Dad whose son, 12, died during swimming race hails schools defibrillator rollout
The Mirror is campaigning for all public buildings to be equipped with the lifesaving devices - and the Government vowed to put defibrillators in all state schools by June this year
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Family of boy, 6, accused of shooting break silence as teacher leaves hospital
The family of a six-year-old boy who shot his teacher in a classroom have spoken out for this first time since the incident - and have shared that the gun he used was secured
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'Lab-grown blood cells provide fresh hope for patients needing transfusions'
Dr Miriam Stoppard on the ground-breaking trial resulting in manufactured red blood cells being grown from donor stem cells which are then transfused into another patient
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Paramedic called social services after finding 23-stone teen dead in bed
Paramedic Gareth Wyn Evans attended the family home in Newtown, Powys after being told spina bifida sufferer Kaylea was found not breathing
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'Unhappy' school where students bullied with racist and homophobic slurs exposed
Some 'fed up' students at Waterhead Academy were so used to hearing racist and homophobic slurs they'd come to accept it as a part of everyday school life, the damning report states
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'My daughter has period mishaps at school as teacher won't let her use the loo'
The woman says her daughter, who is a Year 9 student, has bled onto the chair in class at St James' Catholic High School in Cheadle Hulme on a number of occasions after she was caught out and refused permission to use the bathroom
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Sarah Michelle Gellar's strict rules her kids say are 'unfair' but she swears by
Sarah Michelle Gellar has opened up about the rules in place for her children Charlotte, 13, Rocky, 10, with husband Freddie Prinze Jr
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'Teachers shouldn't need second jobs' - workers explain why they plan to strike
The Mirror has spoken to teachers who are poised to strike on why they plan to join walkouts as talks between union bosses and the Education Secretary Gillian Keegan failed to break the deadlock
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'Education decision makers focus on attendance rather than roots of absence'
School, especially secondary school, is often the worst environment in which the 1.5 million kids with disabilities and mental health distress can thrive and learn