performance and we are groups based on gcse performance and we a re interested groups based on gcsehey attained university. about 4% for men is the retained average. but there is a lot of variation, there are subjects for these people, people with low prior attainment, where the returns are really good, in excess of 10% of the study things like computing or business so fast the returns are low on average there are returns for these people which yield positive returns by age 29. very interesting, thank you for coming to talk to us. a 10—year—old boy, who was diagnosed with a rare blood disorder, has been reunited with the man who helped save his life. rupert spent 80 days in a specialist unit at great ormond street hospital, on a course of chemotherapy. during that time, billy higgins, joined the bone marrow register — after he saw a woman he liked, who's now his wife — in the queue. billy was then found to be a match for rupert. ifeel very lucky and i can't believe that someone would do this to me and i can't believe that someone, i don't know, i can't put it into words. he is a sup

that student might have left us with three gcses, pretty poor grades, but we've helped turn their lifeot doing that, who else will do it? this is just this isjust one this is just one example of alternative provision. the owner wa nted alternative provision. the owner wanted is inside to see the challenges but also the important of education outside of mainstream. the department for education says it wa nts all department for education says it wants all young people to receive an education that fosters ambition, no batter their background, but it is clear from our findings are disproportionate number of children from deprived areas are being excluded. ed thomas, many thanks again. wages rose at their fastest pace in nearly a decade between july and september. new figures show an increase of 3.2%, the biggest rise since the end of 2008. however, the office for national statistics warns that real wage growth was below the 2015 level. now, as sources of news and information multiply by the month the task of telling fact from fiction can be increasingly daunting. the growing incidence of s

they have a full grade gcse difference. this is the national test at the age of 16.kids in comprehensive schools and not. and people assume well, that's environmental. thos are just better schools that teach better. if you just simply correct for what the selective schools select on, which is prior achievement and ability, there is no difference. there's no added value of going to these expensive schools which i think is a liberating message for parents. to a point, but it gets very political. it gets political because a few years ago now you went to see the department of education in the uk and you even had a meeting with the secretary of state for education and afterwards, one of his key advisers came out was clearly influenced a great deal by your work and said, you know what? we in britain, our education system pays far too little heed to genetics and is far too hung up on the ratio of pupils to teachers and that sort of thing. we should spend much more time talking about genetics in our education system. he got pilloried for that because to many people it sounde

that student might have left us with three gcses, pretty poor grades, but we've helped turn their lifese will do it? ed thomas for that special report. around 100 people are still missing in california after the worst wildfires in the state's history. 44 people are now known to have died, but that number is expected to rise. the fires have broken out across the state. more than 7,000 homes and other buildings have been destroyed. most of the people who died were in and around the town of paradise, which has largely been destroyed, as our correspondent dave lee reports. get back here. this is the inferno faced by one mother and son as they escaped the deadliest wildfire in californian history. we were out of that by 10:37am. with thousands of people behind me. how did it feel to know you were saved? relieving, guilty, terrified for the people behind me, i know there was a lot of elderly in the community that probably wouldn't make it out. five days on, this is what's left of their home. the harrowing process of trying to find and identify bodies here has now begun. search teams think it

that student might have less does with gcses, poor grades, but that is success and if we are not doing? why did they lead to film there? this is one example of alternative provision but the owner wanted us to come inside and see the challenge of teaching children in poorer areas but also the benefits of taking children outside of mainstream education. the department for education says it wants all young people to receive an education that fosters ambition, no matter the background, but sophie, it's clear from ourfindings background, but sophie, it's clear from our findings that a disproportionate number of children from deprived areas are being excluded. ed, thank you. now an independent review says badger culling only has a ‘modest‘ effect in reducing the spread of tb and suggests that cattle play a bigger role in passing it on than the badgers. jon kay reports. they seem fine, but look closely. the small green ear tags show that these cattle have tb. so these cows here are tested positive. 24 of rob harrison's dairy herd have just been diagnosed. it is the worst outbreak he's ever kn

library, they can scroll through, once they select the exam country and the exams they take, like uk gcsek you for coming in. president trump's approach to international trade has been controversial. his administration imposed new tariffs on steel, aluminium and a vast swathe of chinese goods. he's also renegotiated trade agreements and made it difficult for the world trade organisation to arbitrate in disputes. kevin hassett is chairman of trump's council of economic advisers and told the bbc the us could consider evicting china from the wto. we never really envisaged that a country would enter the wto and then behave the way that china have. they have, it's very well documented in the economic report of the president, their intellectual property theft is a major concern to the uk, the eu, the us. we estimate $300—$500 billion a year of theft from the us. that's kind of a new thing for the wto, to have a member that that is misbehaving so much and i think that i guess the question is can we fix that with bilateral negotiation with china? if not, can we fix that with reform to the wto? if

this woman suffered from severe anxiety in the run—up to her gcses, but the 17—year—old found help hardof 2500 there was only one school counsellor. eventually she got help, but she believes the problems affected her exam results. but she believes the problems affected her exam resultslj but she believes the problems affected her exam results. i know what i can achieve, and ifelt like i was given challenge after challenge after challenge after that back, with no support. and therefore i couldn't achieve what i should have done. read research by the children's commissioner for england found that last year 338,000 people we re found that last year 338,000 people were referred to specialist nhs mental health community services, but over a third of children were told they could not have treatment. i would like to see a counsellor at every school. i would like to see specialist help for every child that needsit specialist help for every child that needs it within five years. and i would like to see waiting lists down to four weeks, on a par with what we expect for adults. the commissioner sa

that student might have left us with three gcses, pretty poor grades, but we‘ve helped turn their lifenk it is basic, we had eight years of the canine scop crisis and with vulnerable families and vulnerable children are hurt the most. there are some children in the uk that have never known living in a family where money is plentiful and that has been particularly difficult for them over the previous eight years, with no end in sight for that. and of course in those areas where those winner will families exists, then it isa winner will families exists, then it is a tough scenario for those children to live a normal life that many middle—class families by normal. the issue is that schools dealing with that time in reduction budgets and with the reduction in budgets and with the reduction in budget comes a reduction in services provided and that is the real issues. that we are seeing so many increases, exclusions figures that finances the schools are extremely tight. how do you weigh up as a head teacher the decision that no headteacher wants to take, whereby ultimately you feel the only

|j wa nt to gcses which i'm really proud of.ties will buy 15—20 years before a lot of other people? to me personally that shocking, as someone with a learning disability i know so many people with a learning disability are challenged by so many inequalities in their life, things from early diagnosis, education, employment, housing, getting a job, diagnosis, education, employment, housing, getting ajob, having relationships, so many challenges in someone's life, i face some of those but now i've come through education, i have a job, i'm but now i've come through education, i have ajob, i'm married and i have a home of my own and i live with my husband. i'm very lucky, i have a very supportive family but there are so many people with a learning disability out there like me who don't have that support, and very lucky. how do you respond to this report? we welcomed the report, it gives a broad overview of the inequalities people face, why... why? why do people face it, it's a complex issue with a lot of courses, at least one of whic

been allegations that kids have said to us that he is over 15 and he is here because he was to get gcses. there is a lovely quote from one of the kids who said he has had a kid, other boys are struggling. —— has appeared. he has had a kid, other boys are struggling. —— has appearedlj he has had a kid, other boys are struggling. -- has appeared. i don't know why they are trying to grow moustaches but that is another thing. this school in ipswich, he is currently out of school at the moment while there is this investigation. why it got this far, lam not investigation. why it got this far, i am not sure. take the phones away! let's turn to the expressed. fears over record pension cash in. everybody is running out of money. they will do if they carry on. the worry is the government has relaxed the rules on retirement and on pensions and said basically, if you want to, you can draw down your pension and take more of it now and there is evidence that people are starting to treat their retirement savingsjust as a starting to treat their retirement savings just as a normal bank account or saving

i copied out of gcse revision books. nobody's ever marked the work. that would happen for months. exist. casey said he spent three months in a room on his own. his school said despite their best efforts, his regularly disruptive behaviour meant he could not benefit from the full school experience. they also say the room he was in was not the school's actual isolation facility and they dispute the length of time he spent on his own. many isolation units look like this. we've learned they are widely used across our schools. some resemble classrooms but most are lined with so—called consequence booths, where pupils sit at partitioned desks in silence, facing the wall. this teacher has spent the last 15 years visiting isolation rooms as a behaviour consultant. i have seen 50 children in isolation books, children with asperger's and autism. i met one child that spent 36 days in isolation, that is not an education but a custodial sentence. he says he is seeing more schools using it for punishment. where is the regulation around it and the reporting? i asked the same question every time

she said research suggested only 1% achieved five good gcses. now, who are these children? well...rty quoting this, this is from oftsed. ofsted says the children being off—rolled are the children with special educational needs, children eligible for free school meals, children looked after and some minority ethnic groups are all more likely to leave their school. these children, our most neediest children, are being failed by the system that this government introduced. emma hardy. the environment secretary michael gove has claimed the french president was speechless with rage over the uk's proposed brexit deal and what it could mean for the fishing industry. at question time mr gove told mps they should celebrate emmanuel macron‘s anger. president macron has said he would demand continuing access to uk waters for french fishing trawlers after brexit, as a price of a future trade deal. and opposition mps were also angry about what the agreement with the eu could mean for fishing. knowing that the prime minster has signed an agreement with this eu, in which she agrees to it, and i qu

ijust copied out of gcse revision books. but nobody‘s ever marked the work.about me. i didn't exist. casey says for three months he was in a room on his own. are you feeling 0k? yeah. his school disputes the length of time he was there. they insist, despite their best efforts, he was repeatedly disruptive. we've obtained these pictures of isolation units. they're now widely used across our schools. some resemble classrooms but most are lined with so—called consequence booths, where pupils sit at partitioned desks, facing the wall in silence. paul dicks has spent the last 15 years visiting isolation rooms as a school behaviour consultant. i've seen 50 children in isolation booths — children with asperger‘s and autism. i met one child who'd spent 36 days in isolation. that is not an education, it's a custodial sentence. he says he's seeing more and more schools using isolation as punishment. where's the regulation around it, and the reporting? i ask the same question all the time, how many children here have additional needs? and the answer is always the same —

schools in this elite club but this is all about the league tables in light of the new and harder gcsesare doing much better than private rivals. it is interesting. i ta ke private rivals. it is interesting. i take the point but it is interesting, that state schools now account for almost one third of the elite club compared to just 20% two years ago. things are changing, it was the same group of state schools that were competing in the league tables. there has been some sort of sea change. forgive me for a moment, you can see the prime minister is arriving in brussels. we will pause for a moment to see if she's going to say anything, as she walks in. that probably answers our question! we are aware, of course, that the endorsement has already taken place of both the withdrawal agreement and the policy document. those were the two issues that are at stake today, as the 27 other eu leaders contemplate brexit in detail. the prime minister is obviously now arriving knowing that. we are going to the room where the other leaders have gathered and will say something at some point but clearly

it seemed as if it was a phase because it eventually fizzled out but it was not until i was doing gcsesday—to—day life. of control and got very much in the way of normal day-to-day life. what kind of things were you doing? the main thing that i was doing that was taking up so much of my time was that i have a morning routine which i still have but it is a lot better thanit i still have but it is a lot better than it was and that the worst taking me seven hours, so i would get up at 7am and i would be out of the bathroom at 2pm and that is literally a day. it took so much out of me. how easy or otherwise wasn't get help? i started, it started to get help? i started, it started to get worse during the first bit of year 12, get worse during the first bit of year12, i had had get worse during the first bit of year 12, i had had counselling, low—level, but that was not cutting it, and! low—level, but that was not cutting it, and i did not really know where to go, no one had told me about cams, i guess i assumed i was not bad enough to get in there and then it was not until things got to the

ijust copied out of gcse revision books. nobody has ever marked the work.sruptive behaviour meant he could not benefit from the full school experience. they also say the room he was in was not the school's actual isolation facility and they dispute the length of time he spent on his own. many isolation units look like this. we have learned they are now widely used across our schools. some resemble classrooms but most are lined with so—called consequence booths, pupils sit at partitioned desks in silence, facing the wall. paul dicks has spent the last 15 years visiting isolation rooms as a behaviour consultant. i have seen 50 children in isolation booths, children with asperger‘s and autism. i met one child who spent 36 days in isolation, that is not an education but a custodial sentence. he says he is seeing more schools using it for punishment. where is the regulation around it and the reporting? i ask the same question all the time, how many children here have additional needs and the answers was the same, all of them. but if it allows other to carry on?

i copied out of gcse books. that would happen for months. they forgot about me. i did not exist.s, his regularly disruptive behaviour meant he could not benefit from the full school experience. they also say the room he was in was not the school's actual isolation facility and they dispute the length of time he spent on his own. many isolation units look like this. we have learned the widely used across our schools. some resemble classrooms but most are lined with consequence booths, pupils sit at partitioned desks in silence, facing the wall. this teacher has spent the last 15 years visiting isolation rooms as a consultant. i have seen 50 children in isolation books, children with asperger‘s and autism. i met one child that spent 56 days in isolation, that is the custodial sentence. he says he is seen more schools using it for punishment. with us the regulation around it and the reporting? i asked the same question all the time, how many children here have additional needs and the answers was the same, all of them. separate them, help them to get back into the classroom, that wo

elodie suffered from severe anxiety in the run—up to her gcses, but the 17—year—old found help hard tohool of 2,500, there was only one school counsellor. eventually she got help, but she believes the problems affected her exam results. i know what i can achieve, and ifelt like i was given challenge after challenge after challenge after setback, with no support, and therefore i couldn't achieve what i should have done. research by the children's commissioner for england found that last year 338,000 people were referred to specialist nhs mental health community services, but over a third of children were told they could not have treatment. i would like to see a counsellor at every school. i would like to see specialist help for every child that needs it within five years. and i would like to see waiting lists down to four weeks, on a par with what we expect for adults. the commissioner says extra funding is needed, pointing out that adult mental health services get 15 times more funding than children's services. she says another £1.7 billion would be needed to bridge the gap, but she di