Kingham Hill School, in Oxfordshire, has admitted its first student part-funded by local social services. The school will provide "assisted boarding" as an alternative to care and hopes the placement will be "the first of many". By Nicholas Hellen, The Sunday Times. The article quotes Nick Seward, head of Kingham Hill School.

In a comment piece for The Sunday Times, Gillian Bowditch compares attitudes towards independent schools in China and Britain. She criticises proposals to abolish independent schools, saying "we cannot afford to lose excellent schools and gifted teachers, however they are funded".

Ed Dorrell writes in Tes outlining what he believes will be the education policies put forward in the next Conservative Party manifesto, and explores how these might impact on schools. Tes.

Universities UK is calling on universities to provide students with detailed breakdowns of how they spend tuition fees and other income. By Will Hazell, iNews.

Medical experts have called for children as young as nine to be taught basic life-saving skills in an effort to improve cardiac arrest survival rates. By Alec Fullerton, Daily Mail.

Researchers have said youngsters should spend at least two hours a day outdoors to protect against the development of myopia, with figures showing about 20 per cent of under-16s are short-sighted. By Jonathan Leake, The Sunday Times.

Jeremy Fleming, director of GCHQ, has revealed the organisation is hoping to attract dyslexic people to apply for analyst roles. By Camilla Turner, The Telegraph.

Sophie Howe, the Future Generations Commissioner for Wales, has suggested GCSEs are not fit for purpose, and should be replaced by more skills-based assessments. By Eleanor Gruffydd-Jones, BBC News.

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