School uniform 'a money struggle'
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Charities say families struggle to afford school uniforms because of expensive suppliers.
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Young people face a choppy job market, making it hard to cope with high housing costs and rising college debt.
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Berlin's police department has been forced to accept parcels of 30-year-old second-hand uniforms donated by colleagues around the country because the German capital is so strapped for cash.
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A watchdog warns many vulnerable children may not be receiving suitable or cost-effective education.
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Schools are warned they will have to make efficiency savings just to keep pace with current funding levels.
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A Â£570,000 scheme to fight school bullying in England will be expensive and ineffective, a charity claims.
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Paying a lot while trying very hard to look like you are not trying very hard.
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Ministers press IT firms to bring down costs but parents of school students will have to contribute
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From wrapping paper to Girl Scout cookies, the costs add up.
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Foreign students contribute Â£3bn to the British economy. Not all are happy with what they get.
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A primary school considers making  pupils wear tags because of a shortage of lunchtime supervisors.
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Drug prices are a growing problem, and firms trying to set uniform prices face serious difficulties because of the disparities in how much countries can afford to spend, the head of Britain's health watchdog said on Monday.
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The Salvation Army is feeling the pinch as it competes with a growing number of charities, including trendy causes, for donations in tough economic times.
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Teachers' leaders appear divided over government plans to redistribute the Â£85m of unspent money left in state schools' coffers.
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Fewer councils help poorer families to pay for children's school uniforms, a charity says.
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Peddles "His 'n' hers" uniform sets A cash-strapped UK Ministry of Defence is resorting to increasingly desperate measures in the struggle to get its finances back on track. The latest of these is the setting up of an eBay-style online auction site to flog the military's surplus gear, already reported in these pages.â¦
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Uncertainty over funding and schools'  attitudes are limiting vocational courses for teenagers, Ofsted says.