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Parent Power 2024: The Times releases its list of Best UK schools & league table

The Sunday Times releases Parent Power 2024 UK guide

Celebrating the ‘topping out’ at the new student residence, MRP was joined by Grosvenor, who provided the senior debt facility, and Homes for Students, who have been appointed to manage the property under their luxury Prestige Student Living brand. Pictured are Graham Mitchell, Eamonn Laverty and Seamus McAleer, MRP, Oliver Ayling and Mitchell Bowly, Grosvenor and Mark Diamond, McAleer & Rushe

MRP celebrates 'topping out' of new student residence in England

Some participants were reportedly offered a consolation prize of an election internship with the Alliance Party under one its MLAs in lieu of an internship in the US

Letter: Students paid for political internships in the US, not at Stormont

A general view of scaffolding at Balbardie Primary School on September 04, 2023 in Bathgate, Scotland, after its buildings were found to contain RAAC. Credit: Getty Images

43 more schools found to have crumbly RAAC concrete

The top 10 messaging mishaps parents do when talking to their kids

The Prime Minister has unveiled plans to scrap A-levels in a huge shake-up to the UK’s education system. Credit: Carl Court/Getty Images

A-levels and T Levels to be scrapped, Rishi Sunak announces

Large stretches of the M53 are closed this morning (Friday) due to an accident involving an overturned vehicle. Photo: Google Maps

School bus carrying pupils overturns motorway with casualties confirmed

The best UK universities have been revealed in The Times Good University Guide 2024. Photo by Adobe Photos.

The top 20 UK universities according to Good University Guide 2024

Pupils at Hazelwood Integrated College in in North Belfast pictured after receiving A-level results in Northern Ireland.Picture By: Arthur Allison/Pacemaker Press.

Top A-level grades fall in Northern Ireland but remain above pre-pandemic levels

Students are set to get their AS and A-level results in Northern Ireland this morning

Students set to receive AS and A-level results in Northern Ireland

Bob Dylan’s Highland country retreat is on the market for £3m - in pictures

Take a look inside Bob Dylan’s Highland country retreat up for sale

A and AS level students in Northern Ireland, like England and Wales, will receive their grades on Thursday, August 17, with the GCSE results released the following Thursday (24th)

A-level cohort "the unluckiest" to come out of the pandemic

Pallbearers carry the coffin of Kiea McCann after her funeral service at the Sacred Heart Chapel in Clones, Co Monaghan Pic: Liam McBurney/PA Wire

Monaghan crash tragedy: Kiea McCann 'was kind, whole-hearted, genuine'

Tewkesbury stabbing victim releases statement & is ‘recovering well’

Everything you need to know about the A-level and GCSE ahead of the result days in August. (Photo by Matthew Horwood/Getty Images)

A-level & GCSEs result days 2023 - what are the dates?

Margaret Graham, who started her nursing career in 1971 at the Royal Victoria Hospital, reflects on her career as the NHS celebrates it's 75th anniversary

Retired NI nurse looks back on her NHS career
Over the past 75 years, the NHS has developed from a world of woollen capes and military precision-run hospital wards to a colossal institution

Sir Keir Starmer heckled on stage by green protesters who demand ‘no more U-turns’ from Labour leader

Watch: Sir Keir Starmer heckled on stage by green protesters

Toby has worn a skirt to school in protest of the school’s dress code which stops male students wearing shorts. (SWNS)

Boy wears skirt to school in protest of dress code

BDO NI, in partnership with Queen’s University Belfast, has launched the inaugural Business Insight Programme. A total of 90 A-Level students from across Northern Ireland participated in the event, which took place at Queen’s Management School’s digital studio at Belfast Waterfront and BDO NI’s new offices in Belfast city centre

BDO NI and Queen’s Management School nurture future leaders

Professor Stuart Elborn, interim deputy vice chancellor and provost of Queen's University Belfast, who said the industrial action was impacting students

Degree result uncertainty for hundreds of QUB students

University of Nottingham students Barnaby Philip John Webber and Grace O’Malley-Kumar, both aged 19, were found in Ilkeston Road just after 4am on Tuesday (June 13) having been stabbed.

Police identify Nottingham attack victims as families pay tribute

Police on Magdala Road, Nottingham where a man was found dead.

Nottingham attacks: Police release sequence of events

Police on Magdala Road, Nottingham where a man was found dead.

Nottingham attacks: third victim named by police

Nottingham deaths: Tributes to students named among victims

Police on Magdala Road, Nottingham where a man was found dead.

Nottingham: Two people killed in city centre attack were students

A schoolboy has been arrested after three people have sustained serious injuries at a private school in the UK

Three people hospitalised after boy, 16 arrested at private school

School kids want more digitally-based subjects on their curriculums

Esports should become part of the school curriculum as they teach vital digital skills,according to an expert.

Boy, 14, dies at school following ‘isolated incident’

King Charles is looking for students to live and work at Sandringham

King Charles looking for students to live and work at Sandringham

People at Strule Arts Centre in Omagh where a public inquiry is being held examining the proposals for a new dual carriageway along the route of the A5 in Northern Ireland. Picture date: Tuesday May 30, 2023. PA Photo: Claudia Savage/PA Wire

Families of A5 victims speak of ‘endless pain’ as road inquiry continues

International students who come to the UK will no longer be able to bring family with them except under specific circumstances in a government bid to bring migration down.

Many international students to lose right to bring family to UK

Minister for Schools Nick Gibb is going to look into Year 6 SATs following concerns the reading exam was too difficult

Year 6 SATs exams to be looked into by schools minister

Students are gearing up for GCSE exams

Quiz: Can you answer these GCSE maths questions

Long Boi has been pronounced dead after having been missing from University of York campus since mid-March.

Internet star and exceptionally tall duck Long Boi presumed dead

A teenage boy has been arrested after a school shooting in Belgrade

Boy (14) shoots dead 8 children in Belgrade school

Waterloo Road confirms new series - BBC release date, cast including Kym Marsh & what to expect

Waterloo Road confirms new series - BBC release date & cast

The 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso

Dalai Lama apology for kissing boy & asking him to 'suck his tongue'

The cricketers passing the time at Dover with an impromptu match (Photo: SWNS)

Cricketers see off Dover ferry port queues with impromptu match

Coleraine campus, Teaching Block U. (Photo: Nigel McDowell/Ulster University)

Ulster University acquires new sites in Belfast and Londonderry

Ulster University has completed the acquisition of prime real estate in both Belfast and Londonderry, and is investing in the student experience in Coleraine, reflecting the university’s continued commitment to its regional footprint and vibrant campus life. Pictured is Teaching Block, Ulster University Coleraine

Ulster University acquires new sites to expand campus life

Wagamama to give free ramen to students & apprentices - how to get it

The Dangerous Rise of Andrew Tate - how to watch BBC documentary about infamous celebrity

The Dangerous Rise of Andrew Tate - how to watch BBC documentary

Students in the Netherlands have built a 3D printed car that is fully electric and removes carbon dioxide from the air.

Students build fully electric car that removes carbon dioxide from air

Press Eye - Belfast - Northern Ireland - 1st February 2023 Staff members at the University of Ulster in Belfast pictured on a picket line at university employees across Northern Ireland take industrial action over pay, working conditions and pensions. The union is planning 18 days of "unprecedented" walkouts at about 150 universities during February and March. Picture by Jonathan Porter/PressEye

St Valentine's day strike as university standoff continues in Northern Ireland

The open world RPG sets players in the centre of the action at Hogwarts. Photo: IGDB.

Hogwarts Legacy: Warner Bros unveils gameplay trailer and release date

Schoolchildren awaiting the arrival of a Northern service.

Get a valid train ticket or risk being fined, students told

Entrance to De La Salle High School, Downpatrick. Google StreetView

Students' union hits out at Downpatrick school merger plans

Students' wellbeing could be linked to their course

University course studied linked to mental wellbeing

“Less time to study, more time working and, in the end, that might have the effect that they’re not able to succeed in their course and again lead to the risk of them dropping out” Universities UK chief executive warns

University dropout numbers could rise amid cost of living crisis

Royal Mail workers on strike at Tomb Street, Belfast on Wednesday, November 30, 2022. Photo by Jonathan Porter / PressEye

Industrial unrest continues as both posties and university lecturers strike

Patricia Lavery from the Arts Council and Marie O’Donoghue, Education Authority, with students from Mercy College in north Belfast

Cash lets schools get creative again

University strikes begin as union members walk out over pensions & pay

Queen's University, Belfast

QUB announces £7.69m cost-of-living package for students and staff

Henderson Group’s new Delish brand has been exclusively adapted for the store, built specifically for its customer base of 27,000 staff and students

Henderson Group reveal £250,000 SPAR store at QUB

The cost of living crisis is an added pressure for students (photo: Adobe)

Coping strategy for students struggling with cost of living crisis