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Still bothered by a few in the bottom right :
49A - More pleasant information about subject in school (12)
?????R?????N
38D - Tearing one's allowance of fabric (10)
???E???I??
41D - In a chair, perhaps starts to repair embroidered cape sleeve (9)
R?C??????
&
54A - One local lad heading off to college is like an ape (9)
I?I?A???? - is this IMITATING or IMITATIVE? I can't work out the parsing

Obviously this isn't all I'm confused by, but assistance with these may help me with the others

49a kinder-g-art-en
41d reclining -

Sorry, didn't finish
REC (first letters) + lining for sleeve
54a I had imitative
i = 1 + (n)ative. But don't know where the MIT comes from.

You may wish to disregard those answers as, using them, I am now unable to make any sense of:
50d Spaniard is to make two departures - D?E??
and
57a Powdered head: that's an old scheme - G???N????

I also had imitative MIT is a college in US Massachusetts Institute of Technology I,m also finding this one hard. There must be some very clever people out there as hardly anyone is asking for help

MIT - massachusetts institute of technology

50D is Diego It fits with the others

Thanks Rose and Sudokulover.
If I use DIEGO that makes 57a GOODNIGHT, which fits but I absolutely cannot parse. Any thoughts?

Is this not ground (powdered) nut (head) = groundnut?

That would make a lot more sense. I had an 'ING' ending on 38d instead of an 'ION' which it obviously should be.
Many thanks.