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It comes as figures published today by the Joint Council for Qualifications (JCQ) - covering GCSE entries from students predominantly in England, Wales and Northern Ireland - showed top grades of 7/A have fallen, as expected, this year.

The Apple MacBook Air M2 currently tops our list of the best laptops 2022 has to offer, because it is a solid choice for most people. The latest MacBook Air starts at $1,199, which is why we still recommend the 2020 MacBook Air M1 as a lower-cost alternative to the newest Air model, as it's still an all-around excellent laptop. What is the best laptop? For those looking for a more value-oriented option, HP's Pavilion Aero 13 is an excellent small and light laptop starting at $550, but even fully loaded it's a reasonable $900. It offers a great combination of everything we look for when we're testing: reliable everyday performance, long battery life and a design that works for a broad range of users.

The design is still great (though there's no headphone jack; a USB-C adapter is included instead) and the battery life is long.  For 2022, Dell made the XPS 13 even smaller and lighter, kept its sub-$999 starting price the same and dropped in the latest 12th-gen Intel processors. Dell XPS 13

Best MacBook Air alternative

The Dell XPS 13 is a perennial favorite for its size, weight and performance and just overall good looks.

But, again, that great hardware comes at a price. With Windows and Chromebooks (more on these below), you get an amazing variety of devices at a wide range of prices.  Also, you're limited to just Apple laptops.

Today, one educational charity, Schools North East, which describes itself as dedicated to improving outcomes for young people in the north-east of England, said the increased gap shows that adaptations made this year such as more generous grading and focused revision topics had not gone far enough.

LONDON, Dec 3 (Reuters) - Britain said on Friday there were still significant gaps between its position and the European Union over post-Brexit trade arrangements for Northern Ireland and it was ready to take unilateral action if needed.

It can be configured with up to a 12th-gen Intel Core i9 processor, 64GB of memory and a 6GB Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060 graphics chip. The best part: Dell trimmed up the chassis so much that you get a 17-inch display in a body that's the size of an older 15-inch laptop. Dell XPS 17 9720

Great for work and gaming

The XPS 17 combines the same slim, premium design of its 13-inch linemate but with increased performance possibilities. You're getting a lot of power and a big screen in the smallest possible package. 

** "The investment lens through which global investors evaluate opportunities in China has changed and the strategies deployed towards investing in the Middle Kingdom need to adapt accordingly," wrote Norman Vilamin, CIO of Wealth Management at Union Bancaire Privee.

Figures published today reveal 32.6 per cent of students in London obtained top grades - 7/A or above - in this year's GCSE results, while the figure was 22.4 per cent for those in the North East and Yorkshire and the Humber.

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.

Sept 16 (Reuters) - Hong Kong stocks fell for the fourth straight day to a 10-month closing low, as shares of embattled Chinese developer China Evergrande Group tumbled to their lowest in a decade, sparking contagion fears.

On Weibo, another user writing under the name Lawyer Zhang, said that action needed to be taken to address the disproportionate burden faced by women, who are expected to give birth and raise children as part of their natural "motherhood".

SHANGHAI, Feb 23 (Reuters) - The cost of raising a child in China stands at nearly seven times its per capita GDP, far more than in the United States and Japan, highlighting the challenges facing Chinese policymakers as they try to tackle rapidly declining birth rates, new research showed.

The most important core tests we're currently running on every compatible computer include: Primate Labs Geekbench 5, Cinebench R23, PCMark 10 and 3DMark Fire Strike Ultra.  The list of benchmarking software we use changes over time as the devices we test evolve.

Child rearing costs are even higher in China's major cities, reaching more than 1 million yuan in Shanghai and 969,000 yuan in Beijing.

Birth rates in the two cities are even lower than the national average.