Rural Younger People
29 Mar 2021
Urban ‘escalator’ means disadvantaged rural students miss out on top universities
High-achieving, disadvantaged students from urban areas are more likely to enter elite UK universities than similar peers from rural communities due to an urban ‘escalator effect’, according to a new...
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01 Mar 2021
Terrible internet in rural Devon is impacting kids learning from home
DevonLive have reported that pupils living in rural Devon have been unable to learn remotely due to awful internet connection A school in North Devon has raised concerns over its...
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22 Feb 2021
Broadband pressure sees people turning to mobile phones to stay online
PA Media has covered the results of a new report suggesting that extra pressure on broadband connections is forcing people to resort to using mobile phones to stay online during...
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22 Feb 2021
Chancellor must do more to tackle rampant rural disadvantage, campaigners urge
New economic research reveals government spending per person on public infrastructure is 44% higher for urban areas than it is for rural areas. Rural Services Network, Britain’s Leading Edge, CPRE,...
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08 Feb 2021
Rural Review of Skills for Jobs – Lifelong learning for opportunity and growth
In the latest of our ‘Through a Rural Lens’ analyses we have reviewed the Government’s recent White Paper “Skills for Jobs: lifelong learning for opportunity and growth” ‘Rural’ does not...
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11 Jan 2021
PM urged to provide more devices and connections for pupils’ remote learning
Local paper Hereford Times has reported on calls for Boris Johnson to take urgent action to help pupils lacking the devices or connections needed to learn at home as schools...
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04 Jan 2021
Parents and teachers face ‘confusing picture’ over school closures
ITV has reported on the new plans set out by Education Secretary Gavin Williamson MP (Con) for the start of the school term in England, amid rising pressures over the...
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04 Jan 2021
Coldharbour Mill launches rural skills training programme
Local publication, In Your Area, has reported that a new skills training programme is providing countryside and land management skills training at Coldharbour Mill, Devon The historic mill’s scheme, which...
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14 Dec 2020
Church of England to provide teacher-training in rural schools in new partnership with Teach First
Church Times and The Times Educational Supplement have reported that trainee teachers are to be sent into primary schools in more deprived rural areas as part of a plan to...
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09 Nov 2020
Countryside house prices hit four-year high in ‘race for space’
The Guardian reports that record demand for countryside houses has driven prices to a four-year high. Prices for rural houses, including cottages, farm houses and manor houses, rose two per...
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