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Scotland’s Net Zero Secretary today announced the government’s climate change plans, including details on how these new measures will affect deer management in Scotland. The Scottish Government has stated they ‘will build on the current Cairngorms Deer Pilot to develop a national scheme which incentivises increased management and investment in the venison supply chain’. Peter… Read more »
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 »
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Tests in Welsh schools at 11 and 14 years should be abolished, a new report commissioned by the Welsh National Assembly has recommended. The report, written by Professor Richard Daugherty of the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, proposes replacing the Key Stage 2 and 3 tests in schools with a single “skills test” at age 10…. Read more »
Viscount Trenchard has been elected by Conservative hereditary peers to return to the House of Lords. Under the House of Lords Act 1999, which removed most of the hereditary peers from the Lords, provisions were made for 92 hereditary peers to remain in the “interim” House until a permanent solution could be agreed. In the… Read more »
