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The Empty Quad
This is move-in week at the American university, and I keep thinking about the freshmen. They were born in 2008, most of them, into the autumn the economy fell through the floor. Their parents signed leases in August and watched the banks fail in September, and a fair number of the classmates who should have been hauling suitcases up the dormitory stairs beside them do not exist. American births peaked in 2007, sagged with the crash, and never came back. The recession officially ended in 2009. The births did not return with the recovery, and the fertility rate has since sunk to its lowest marks ever recorded. Economists can argue about why, and they do, everything from housing costs to delayed marriage to a general gloom about what was coming next. Whatever the cause, the count kept falling, and the count is all a registrar needs. The empty crib has been rolling toward the campus gates for eighteen years, and this semester it arrives. […] -
The Empty Quad
This is move-in week at the American university, and I keep thinking about the freshmen. They were born in 2008, most of them, into the autumn the economy fell through the floor. Their parents signed leases in August and watched the banks fail in September, and a fair number of the classmates who should have been hauling suitcases up the dormitory stairs beside them do not exist. American births peaked in 2007, sagged with the crash, and never came back. The recession officially ended in 2009. The births did not return with the recovery, and the fertility rate has since sunk to its lowest marks ever recorded. Economists can argue about why, and they do, everything from housing costs to delayed marriage to a general gloom about what was coming next. Whatever the cause, the count kept falling, and the count is all a registrar needs. The empty crib has been rolling toward the campus gates for eighteen years, and this semester it arrives. […] -
The Empty Quad
This is move-in week at the American university, and I keep thinking about the freshmen. They were born in 2008, most of them, into the autumn the economy fell through the floor. Their parents signed leases in August and watched the banks fail in September, and a fair number of the classmates who should have been hauling suitcases up the dormitory stairs beside them do not exist. American births peaked in 2007, sagged with the crash, and never came back. The recession officially ended in 2009. The births did not return with the recovery, and the fertility rate has since sunk to its lowest marks ever recorded. Economists can argue about why, and they do, everything from housing costs to delayed marriage to a general gloom about what was coming next. Whatever the cause, the count kept falling, and the count is all a registrar needs. The empty crib has been rolling toward the campus gates for eighteen years, and this semester it arrives. […] -
The Empty Quad
This is move-in week at the American university, and I keep thinking about the freshmen. They were born in 2008, most of them, into the autumn the economy fell through the floor. Their parents signed leases in August and watched the banks fail in September, and a fair number of the classmates who should have been hauling suitcases up the dormitory stairs beside them do not exist. American births peaked in 2007, sagged with the crash, and never came back. The recession officially ended in 2009. The births did not return with the recovery, and the fertility rate has since sunk to its lowest marks ever recorded. Economists can argue about why, and they do, everything from housing costs to delayed marriage to a general gloom about what was coming next. Whatever the cause, the count kept falling, and the count is all a registrar needs. The empty crib has been rolling toward the campus gates for eighteen years, and this semester it arrives. […] -
The Empty Quad
This is move-in week at the American university, and I keep thinking about the freshmen. They were born in 2008, most of them, into the autumn the economy fell through the floor. Their parents signed leases in August and watched the banks fail in September, and a fair number of the classmates who should have been hauling suitcases up the dormitory stairs beside them do not exist. American births peaked in 2007, sagged with the crash, and never came back. The recession officially ended in 2009. The births did not return with the recovery, and the fertility rate has since sunk to its lowest marks ever recorded. Economists can argue about why, and they do, everything from housing costs to delayed marriage to a general gloom about what was coming next. Whatever the cause, the count kept falling, and the count is all a registrar needs. The empty crib has been rolling toward the campus gates for eighteen years, and this semester it arrives. […] -
New Ofsted inspection regime is damaging our health, headteachers say
By Richard Adams Education editorSchool leaders’ union says new system is worse than one it replaced and has left members feeling overwhelmed
#Ofsted #Schools #Teachersworkload #Educationpolicy #Education #England #UKnews #TheGuardian #RichardAdamsEducationeditor
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New Ofsted inspection regime is damaging our health, headteachers say
By Richard Adams Education editorSchool leaders’ union says new system is worse than one it replaced and has left members feeling overwhelmed
#Ofsted #Schools #Teachersworkload #Educationpolicy #Education #England #UKnews #TheGuardian #RichardAdamsEducationeditor
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New Ofsted inspection regime is damaging our health, headteachers say
By Richard Adams Education editorSchool leaders’ union says new system is worse than one it replaced and has left members feeling overwhelmed
#Ofsted #Schools #Teachersworkload #Educationpolicy #Education #England #UKnews #TheGuardian #RichardAdamsEducationeditor
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New Ofsted inspection regime is damaging our health, headteachers say
By Richard Adams Education editorSchool leaders’ union says new system is worse than one it replaced and has left members feeling overwhelmed
#Ofsted #Schools #Teachersworkload #Educationpolicy #Education #England #UKnews #TheGuardian #RichardAdamsEducationeditor
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Northern Ireland schools must give girls option to wear trousers from next year https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/sep/11/northern-ireland-schools-girls-trousers-uniform #NorthernIreland #Schools #EducationPolicy #PrimarySchools #SecondarySchools #Children #Education #NorthernIrishPolitics #Politics #UkNews
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Northern Ireland schools must give girls option to wear trousers from next year https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/sep/11/northern-ireland-schools-girls-trousers-uniform #NorthernIreland #Schools #EducationPolicy #PrimarySchools #SecondarySchools #Children #Education #NorthernIrishPolitics #Politics #UkNews
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Northern Ireland schools must give girls option to wear trousers from next year https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/sep/11/northern-ireland-schools-girls-trousers-uniform #NorthernIreland #Schools #EducationPolicy #PrimarySchools #SecondarySchools #Children #Education #NorthernIrishPolitics #Politics #UkNews
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Northern Ireland schools must give girls option to wear trousers from next year https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/sep/11/northern-ireland-schools-girls-trousers-uniform #NorthernIreland #Schools #EducationPolicy #PrimarySchools #SecondarySchools #Children #Education #NorthernIrishPolitics #Politics #UkNews
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Northern Ireland schools must give girls option to wear trousers from next year https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/sep/11/northern-ireland-schools-girls-trousers-uniform #NorthernIreland #Schools #EducationPolicy #PrimarySchools #SecondarySchools #Children #Education #NorthernIrishPolitics #Politics #UkNews
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Northern Ireland schools must give girls option to wear trousers from next year
By Rory Carroll Ireland correspondentDUP education minister accused of dragging feet before revising guidelines that also apply to PE and games
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/sep/11/northern-ireland-schools-girls-trousers-uniform
#NorthernIreland #Schools #Educationpolicy #Primaryschools #Secondaryschools #Children #Education #NorthernIrishpolitics #Politics #UKnews #TheGuardian #RoryCarrollIrelandcorrespondent
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Northern Ireland schools must give girls option to wear trousers from next year
By Rory Carroll Ireland correspondentDUP education minister accused of dragging feet before revising guidelines that also apply to PE and games
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/sep/11/northern-ireland-schools-girls-trousers-uniform
#NorthernIreland #Schools #Educationpolicy #Primaryschools #Secondaryschools #Children #Education #NorthernIrishpolitics #Politics #UKnews #TheGuardian #RoryCarrollIrelandcorrespondent
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Northern Ireland schools must give girls option to wear trousers from next year
By Rory Carroll Ireland correspondentDUP education minister accused of dragging feet before revising guidelines that also apply to PE and games
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/sep/11/northern-ireland-schools-girls-trousers-uniform
#NorthernIreland #Schools #Educationpolicy #Primaryschools #Secondaryschools #Children #Education #NorthernIrishpolitics #Politics #UKnews #TheGuardian #RoryCarrollIrelandcorrespondent
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Northern Ireland schools must give girls option to wear trousers from next year
By Rory Carroll Ireland correspondentDUP education minister accused of dragging feet before revising guidelines that also apply to PE and games
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/sep/11/northern-ireland-schools-girls-trousers-uniform
#NorthernIreland #Schools #Educationpolicy #Primaryschools #Secondaryschools #Children #Education #NorthernIrishpolitics #Politics #UKnews #TheGuardian #RoryCarrollIrelandcorrespondent
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Primary schools to be told to identify children at risk of future unemployment https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/aug/07/english-primary-schools-to-be-told-to-identify-children-at-risk-of-future-unemployment #YouthUnemployment #YoungPeople #PrimarySchools #Education #Schools #Society #Unemployment #EducationPolicy #Politics #SocialExclusion #England #UkNews
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Primary schools to be told to identify children at risk of future unemployment https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/aug/07/english-primary-schools-to-be-told-to-identify-children-at-risk-of-future-unemployment #YouthUnemployment #YoungPeople #PrimarySchools #Education #Schools #Society #Unemployment #EducationPolicy #Politics #SocialExclusion #England #UkNews
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Primary schools to be told to identify children at risk of future unemployment https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/aug/07/english-primary-schools-to-be-told-to-identify-children-at-risk-of-future-unemployment #YouthUnemployment #YoungPeople #PrimarySchools #Education #Schools #Society #Unemployment #EducationPolicy #Politics #SocialExclusion #England #UkNews
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Primary schools to be told to identify children at risk of future unemployment https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/aug/07/english-primary-schools-to-be-told-to-identify-children-at-risk-of-future-unemployment #YouthUnemployment #YoungPeople #PrimarySchools #Education #Schools #Society #Unemployment #EducationPolicy #Politics #SocialExclusion #England #UkNews
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Primary schools to be told to identify children at risk of future unemployment
By Richard Partington Senior economics correspondentExclusive: Neet crisis review to call for teachers to be asked to spot those at risk of leaving education jobless at 16
#Youthunemployment #Youngpeople #Primaryschools #Education #Schools #Society #Unemployment #Educationpolicy #Politics #Socialexclusion #England #UKnews #TheGuardian #RichardPartingtonSenioreconomicscorrespondent
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Primary schools to be told to identify children at risk of future unemployment
By Richard Partington Senior economics correspondentExclusive: Neet crisis review to call for teachers to be asked to spot those at risk of leaving education jobless at 16
#Youthunemployment #Youngpeople #Primaryschools #Education #Schools #Society #Unemployment #Educationpolicy #Politics #Socialexclusion #England #UKnews #TheGuardian #RichardPartingtonSenioreconomicscorrespondent
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Primary schools to be told to identify children at risk of future unemployment
By Richard Partington Senior economics correspondentExclusive: Neet crisis review to call for teachers to be asked to spot those at risk of leaving education jobless at 16
#Youthunemployment #Youngpeople #Primaryschools #Education #Schools #Society #Unemployment #Educationpolicy #Politics #Socialexclusion #England #UKnews #TheGuardian #RichardPartingtonSenioreconomicscorrespondent