Education
The attainment gap in Scotland’s schools
High-achieving well-off pupils in Scotland perform better at science, reading and maths than high-achieving poor pupils, according to research. Read
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Immigration
Reports on employment figures are accurate, but not the whole picture
There’s a lot of uncertainty, and you can tell different stories about ‘foreign’ workers depending on how you define them. Read
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Don’t trust this Stoke by-election poll until we know more about it
We've seen a poll on the Stoke by-election. As far as we're aware, the campaign group who carried it out still haven’t published the information you’d need to say whether it’s reliable. Read
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Crime
Fewer prison officers in England and Wales
Prison officer numbers have fallen in England and Wales since 2010. Read
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The end of holiday fines?
A legal case may mean that councils have to stop fining parents who take their children out of school during term time. Read
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Economy, Business & Finance
How much would a hard Brexit cost?
It's not unorthodox to say that trading with the EU under terms set by the WTO would be bad from an economic perspective, but putting an exact cost on it is tricky. Read
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BBC Question Time, factchecked
We factchecked claims about A&E visits, whether UKIP wants to privatise the NHS, and whether or not the government had committed to accepting 3,000 refugee children. Read
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Health
UKIP and the NHS
In the past, UKIP’s leader has been critical of the NHS model of healthcare. Read
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Health
A&E in England has never been busier
There were 2.5 million more attendances at English A&Es in 2016 compared with 2010. Read
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