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When the choice is internet or food, broadband policies arent working CNET 3/8/2021 © Richard Bailey/Getty This week, 31-year-old Michelle from North Lanarkshire, Scotland, has access to the internet at home. But next week is already looking very different. Michelles family has fallen behind with the broadband payments, and even though they managed to reconnect only last weekend, theyll be cut off again this Friday. Michelle (who prefers gender-neutral pronouns and whose name has been chang...

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Closing schools has been one of the most painful consequences of the pandemic - the action Boris Johnson described as his "last resort". Charities have warned that it could wipe out a decade of progress closing the gap between less privileged pupils and their peers. New research from the Social Mobility Foundation (SMF) has found that half of students from disadvantaged backgrounds believe they wont get the grades they deserve after this years examinations were scrapped. In a poll of 863 social...

Disadvantaged pupils offered free data in bid to tackle digital divide Joe Lepper Wednesday, January 6, 2021 The Department for Education is partnering with broadband providers to offer disadvantaged families free data to support home learning during the latest Covid-19 lockdown. It can cost families as much as £97 per day in data charges to carry out home learning, new research shows. Picture: Adobe Stock Register now to continue reading Tha...

Los Angeles will soon have an ‘innovation zone’ for testing mobility products This article was originally published by Christopher Carey on Cities Today, the leading news platform on urban mobility and innovation, reaching an international audience of city leaders. For the latest updates follow Cities Today on YouTube, or sign up for Cities Today News. Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti has announced the creation of the city’s first Transportation Technology Innovation Zone ...

Ultra-Lightweight Intelligent Wheelchair Receives $1M as Winner of Mobility Unlimited Challenge is Announced Toyota Mobility Foundation, in partnership with Nesta Challenges, announces winner of $4 million global Mobility Unlimited Challenge in virtual event Phoenix Instinct from the UK wins $1 million in prize money to help bring their Phoenix i wheelchair to market The winners announcement is a culmination of the three-year Mobility Unlimited Challenge which saw innovators from around the wor...

Queen, 94, joined a video call with KPMG staff on their 150th anniversary  The monarch faced technical difficulties as her image vanished from Cisco video call  Upon her return to the virtual visit, the 94-year-old said: You just disappeared   Royal was serenaded by the staff choir at KPMG during virtual visit to company Choir sung We Wish You A Merry Christmas as Her Majesty spoke with staff  

AJ 40 under 40: Yẹmí Àlàdérun 14 December 2020 By Fran Williams, illustration by Simon Hayes Following spells at Mae and Barbara Weiss, AJ 40 under 40 architect Yẹmí Aládérun is now major projects manager at Islington and Shoreditch Housing Association Following her studies at Kingston University, where she completed Parts 1-3 plus an additional architecture masters in ‘Thinking Building’, Àlàdérun’s passion for good-quality social housing began at the start of...