Sixty-one per cent of young people with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) go into further education, compared with 34 per cent of the wider population, studies show. For these young people, it’s vital they receive support from FE colleges to get into employment when they leave.

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Marketing is not usually the first thing on dental professionals’ minds. However, it’s an important part of building a successful dental practice. So for those who are relatively new to the marketing game and simply want to get their message in front of as many local dental patients as possible, here are 20 tips you can use to shape your marketing plan.

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WE’VE ALL DONE IT—that mental calculation where you try to figure out how much you’d clear if you were to sell your house and pay off your mortgage. But it can be more than just an idle exercise. Even if you never sell your home, the equity you have in it can help you pursue important personal goals. So understanding how to calculate it—and how banks view it—is critical, especially if you want to borrow money against that equity to pay for a home improvement project, cover emergency expenses or pay for your child’s college tuition, for instance. In fact, it could also affect whether you need to pay private mortgage insurance, and could determine which financing options may be available to you.

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Most of us are used to borrowing money in some capacity, whether it's mortgaging our homes or bumming a few bucks off a friend when we realize we left our cash at home. Well, just as borrowing is a part of life for everyday people, it's a practice companies and municipalities uphold, as well. Even the federal government does it. How? By issuing bonds.

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Marcia Statz, a school nurse on an island that sits in a portal to the Pacific Ocean, has seen firsthand how geographic challenges and a lack of provider options can affect families' access to medical help.  Due to state-mandated screening and vaccination requirements, Statz can spend much of her day tracking down students on Washington state's Whidbey Island who haven't had shots or need hearing and vision exams to stay enrolled. But the work often leads to frustration for both her and the students' families, she says, since clinics on the island only accept limited types of insurance and wait times for new-patient appointments are long.

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Cities and communities across the country lost an estimated 36 million trees each year from 2009 through 2014.  A study, Declining Urban and Community Tree Cover in the United States, conducted by scientists from the United States Department of Agriculture Forest Service reviewed aerial photos of tree coverage in all 50 states and Washington, D.C., and found that coverage is declining at a rate of about 175,000 acres per year – about 36 million trees per year.  Pavement and other impermeable cover increased at a rate of about 167,000 acres per year, according to the study, which was published in the journal Urban Forestry and Urban Greening.

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China faces potential trade wars with the U.S., grappling with its North Korean neighbor's nuclear program, and expansion of its artificial intelligence to become the world leader of the trade. And yet, in a self-sustaining effort to maintain political stability, to pursue economic growth and to keep citizens happy, Chinese President Xi Jinping is trying to see – and show local officials – that there is green to be found in going green, experts say."China and the U.S. are basically taking different paths with respect to environmental protection," says Scott Moore, a senior fellow at the University of Pennsylvania's Kleinman Center for Energy Policy. "China has decided that it's actually really important both for its economic growth as well as for its political stability to do much more in terms of environmental protection and to ensure that its citizens have clean water, clean air."

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A female passenger died after she was nearly sucked from the cabin of a Southwest Airlines flight en route from New York to Dallas on Tuesday.

Investigators say there was a fault with the engine's fan blades.

Almost 700 Boeing 737 engines will need to be inspected worldwide over the next 20 days, regulators say.

"Fan blade failure due to cracking... could result in an engine in-flight shutdown, uncontained release of debris, [and] possible airplane decompression," the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said in a statement announcing the inspections.

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It's not yet known how the Swedish DJ died, but two years ago he announced his retirement after suffering from health problems.

Rita Ora, who he recently collaborated with on the track Lonely Together, tweeted that she had "no words" after hearing the news.

Diplo posted that Avicii's music will "live forever", writing that he "set the precedent" for other producers.

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On 24 March 2018, more than two million people took to the streets in the US to protest gun violence. What the solution to that problem looks like depends on who you ask. Some wish to repeal citizens’ rights to bear arms, while others want to arm even more people. Most Americans have opinions that fall somewhere in between.

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