• An article that laid out headteachers’ concerns over school funding should have made clear that the survey data covered England only, not the whole of the UK (90% of our schools will run out of cash – heads, 23 October, p1 turn to p13). And in an accompanying story, we stated in the text and headline that an academy trust faced a difficult choice – “cut staff or feed hungry pupils”. We meant “keep staff or feed hungry pupils”.
• Ireland’s Economic and Social Research Institute was mistakenly abbreviated to “EISR”, rather than ESRI, in an opinion piece (Brexit isn’t working, and Labour must say so to voters, 23 October, p55).
• An advice column said that paramedic students who already have a degree do not qualify for another Student Finance England loan and are therefore also excluded from a £5,000 Learning Support Fund bursary available to those retraining in other health fields. To clarify: that was the case until this academic year; a recent change in regulations means graduates studying paramedicine can now apply for the bursary, although they remain ineligible for an SFE loan (Funding ban stopped me retraining as a paramedic, 23 October, p57).
• Daniel Birnbaum curated the 2016 exhibition of Hilma af Klint’s work at the Serpentine in London, but not the show that followed at the Guggenheim Museum in New York as an article may have implied (Female Swedish mystic hailed as the true pioneer of abstract art, 16 October, p11).
Other recently amended articles include:
Death toll from sinking of Lebanon boat rises to 94
Pogues’ hard-living former frontman finds success as an artist
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