"We remain hopeful of reaching an agreement ... (Reporting by Elizabeth Piper, editing by William James) But we've been clear that we will continue to work to reach a free trade agreement," the spokesman told reporters, repeating that fisheries and fair competition guarantees were areas where gaps between positions remain. No deal is a possible outcome ...

America´s college-going rate was generally on the upswing until the pandemic reversed decades of progress.

Rates fell even as the nation's population of high school graduates grew, and ged online tutoring despite economic upheaval, 4th grade writing help which typically drives more people into higher education.

LONDON, Dec 14 (Reuters) - Britain continues to be hopeful that it can secure a trade agreement with the European Union but there are still gaps on key issues, a spokesman for Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Monday.

For those who forgo college, it usually means lower lifetime earnings - 75 percent less compared with those who get bachelor´s degrees, according to Georgetown University´s Center on Education and the Workforce.

Experts warn China's ageing population will put huge pressure on its health and social security system, while a dwindling workforce could also severely limit growth for the world's second largest economy in the coming decades.

The NHS is preparing to ensure it is ready to potentially offer Covid-19 vaccines to all 12 to 15-year-olds in England from this month, although a decision has yet to be taken by the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) about this age group.

Aisha's ordeal encompasses some of the most extreme hardships the war has inflicted upon civilians: enslavement by Boko Haram, forced abortion by the military, the loss of one child in a military bombing and another, she suspects, to poisoning by soldiers.

The war also took the life of a brother, in addition to her mother, and all but destroyed one of her arms, Aisha said.

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They injected two vials of medicine into her buttocks, without telling her what it was, and gave her an assortment of pills, she said.

An hour later, she said, she was in wrenching pain and began bleeding heavily from her vagina. The following day, they told Aisha she had a vaginal infection.

After their arrival at the family's former home, within hours of the injections, Fatima started acting strangely, Aisha said.

She would not breastfeed, her eyes became distant and glassy, and she developed a fever. A local pharmacist told her the child must have been bitten by a bug and gave her a syrup to lower her temperature.

China would need to spend at least 5% of its annual GDP to create incentives for couples to have more children, including education subsidies, preferential mortgage rates, tax breaks, equal paternity and maternity leave, as well as the construction of more childcare centres, it added.

At the same time, the nation's student debt has soared.

The issue has loomed large in the minds of young Americans as President Joe Biden pushes to cancel huge swaths of debt, an effort the Supreme Court appears poised to block.

Education Secretary Gavin Williamson said he will "move heaven and earth" to avoid shutting schools again, but he did not rule out a rise in Covid-19 infections being caused by children going back to class.

Felerin had suffered, too, telling Reuters she'd had a forced abortion and lost two young sons after soldiers injected them with poison at Giwa Barracks in Maiduguri. In the camp, Aisha found a new friend, Felerin, who held her as she cried over her losses.

colleges increased slightly from 2021 to 2022. But that figure, along with total college enrollment, remains far below pre-pandemic levels. There's some hope the worst has passed.

The number of freshmen enrolling at U.S.

In the end, the Nigerian military decided Bana's fate.

One morning about four years ago, when he was roughly 3, the military launched an airstrike on the camp. Aisha, who was nearby, ran to save him but was too late. They blew up the hut where the boy slept.

'I can do things that I can enjoy. 'I was like, `OK, what´s this thing that´s not on my back constantly?´' Hart said. And I kind of relaxed more in life and enjoyed life.' I can also do things that are important to me.

'In the long run, I'm going to be way more set than any of them,' he says He even thinks he's better off than some who went to college - he knows too many who dropped out or took on debt for degrees they never used.

Beijing-based YuWa Population Research Institute said in a report published on Tuesday that the average cost of raising a child to the age of 18 in China in 2019 stood at 485,000 yuan ($76,629) for a first child, 6.9 times China's per capita GDP that year.