• An article (“Battle launched to save children from being kicked out of school”, 20 October, p14) referred to black children as being among those pupils more likely to be permanently excluded from school. The intended reference, based on government data, was to children from a black Caribbean background. This was an editing error. We also omitted to note that the data was for England.
• Owing to a transcription error, an article referred to the author Ferdia Lennon as “she” rather than “he” (“Lunch with… Sarah Perry”, 20 October, Food Monthly, p8).
• Han Kang is not the first Asian writer to win the Nobel prize in literature as an article said, but she is the first Asian woman to do so (“First K-pop, now K-poetry: wise words put Korea on literary map”, 20 October, p13).
• We referred to the Welsh parliament, or Senedd Cymru, as the “Welsh assembly”, which has not been its name since May 2020 (“End smacking now, says children’s watchdog”, 20 October, p1).
• A letter from Michael Pyke published last week (“Don’t blame headteachers”, p48) was written on behalf of the Campaign for State Education, a detail we omitted owing to an editing error.
• A feature about humans and horses (“A special relationship”, 20 October, Magazine, p17) said horses were first domesticated 3,000 years ago around the Black Sea. In fact, where domestication took place is subject to debate, but it is thought to have been between 3500BC and 3000BC, so more than 5,000 years ago.
• Other recently amended articles include:
Si King’s secret ingredient: yellow split peas
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