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Group of students getting new education sighed (7)

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I believe the answer is:

yearned

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'sighed' is the definition.
Although both the answer and definition are past participle verbs, I can't see how they can define each other.

'group of students getting new education' is the wordplay.
'group of students' becomes 'year' (I've seen this before).
'getting' says to put letters next to each other.
'new' becomes 'n'.
'education' becomes 'ed' (abbreviation - e.g. sex ed).
'year'+'n'+'ed'='YEARNED'

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(Other definitions for yearned that I've seen before include "Ached" , "Did long" , "Felt longing (for something)" , "Craved" , "Pined" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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