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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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The prime minister has pledged to create 200,000 apprenticeships by 2011 in the draft Queen’s Speech. In a preview of the government’s legislative programme to MPs, Gordon Brown said he would give every qualified young person the statutory right to an apprenticeship. In 1997 about 65,000 young people were learning a trade through an apprenticeship,… Read more »
Details of pay levels in Britain’s local authorities reveal 14 town hall employees are earning more than the prime minister. In all 818 local authority workers are earning more than £100,000 and 132 earn more than the £137,579 earned by a Cabinet minister, according to the Taxpayers Alliance’s Town Hall Rich List. Fourteen are earning… Read more »
