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The UK Government must carry out long overdue reform of the teaching of Religious Education (RE) in England to meet the needs of modern society, says Humanists UK in response to another Ofsted review. In its deep-dive report into RE – Deep and meaningful? – Ofsted found that the current curriculum often lacks ‘sufficient substance to… Read more »
The Medical Defence Union (MDU) has successfully supported a GP member with a series of investigations that followed a patient death. The GP was eventually exonerated, but not before responding to a complaint, claim, NHS England investigation and GMC investigation over a five-year period. The MDU is encouraging healthcare professionals to get support from colleagues… Read more »
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Traffic levels in England and Wales have fallen slightly in the first quarter of 2005 according to the Office for National Statistics. Its latest data shows an overall fall of 0.2 per cent. Within this, there was a one per cent fall in car traffic – mainly driven by a fall in the use of… Read more »
The current A-Level format is failing to distinguish the exceptional from “sloggers”, according to the director of admissions at Cambridge University. Geoff Parks said that the Government’s white paper on reform of 14 to 19 education will fail to solve the problem of so many pupils with almost identical grades applying to over-subscribed courses at… Read more »
