内容摘要：Increasing tuition fees in Northern Ireland will deter people from applying to university, some sixth formers have said.

Increasing tuition fees in Northern Ireland will deter people from applying to university, some sixth formers have said.

Joe Biden's aides have hit back at a new book that accuses a White House inner circle of covering up the former US president's "physical deterioration" during his ill-fated re-election campaign.According to the book, Original Sin, Biden's condition during his 2024 presidential run was said to be so poor that aides discussed putting him in a wheelchair.

A spokesperson for Biden, 82, said "evidence of aging is not evidence of mental incapacity" and maintained the Democrat had been "a very effective president".The book, by CNN's Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson of Axios, is due to be released on 20 May.Biden abruptly ended his re-election campaign last July shortly after his disastrous debate performance against Donald Trump, a Republican.

Party insiders blamed him for exiting the race too late, leaving his replacement, Vice-President Kamala Harris, 107 days to challenge Trump, who swept to victory.Ahead of the book's release, Biden last week gave his first interview since leaving the White House

, saying: "I don't think it would have mattered" if he had left the race sooner.

While the book largely cites anonymous sources in interviews with more than 200 people, one of the few to be quoted on the record is David Plouffe, who worked on Vice-President Harris's campaign.has warned that young people are being put off by a range of barriers, including:

According to Ucas, 430,000 students said they were interested in apprenticeship opportunities in 2023.However, only 189,430 apprenticeships were published on the official site in England in the last academic year.

The last government said that was "nowhere near enough" and launched an onlineThink hard about what the apprenticeship offers - will the qualification help you progress in the career you want? Can you picture yourself in a job in the industry? What opportunities are there to progress at the organisation itself?