• 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).
