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Re the detention camps in Xinjiang (Internment camps give Uighurs ‘training’, China’s governor says, 17 October), similar camps were established when the communists took over China in 1949 for returning students from the west. More...

More students than ever before have applied for medicine as new medical schools open to make the NHS “self-sufficient”. More...

The bio-brick created by students in Cape Town mixes urine with sand and bacteria, which they say is a world first. More...

Guardian readers respond to our investigation into rogue landlords and private rented housing conditions. More...

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It says much about the party conference season that the most arresting education news of last month was the headteacher march on Downing Street over school funding. More...

Minister says institutions still not doing enough to help vulnerable young people. More...