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Ahead of Wednesday’s Budget, the Medical Defence Union (MDU) has issued an open letter to the Chancellor of the Exchequer urging her to take decisive action to tackle the soaring legal costs of clinical negligence claims. In the last year alone, the NHS spent more than £800 million on legal fees relating to clinical negligence… Read more »
The Supreme Court has ruled in favour of a non-religious father and his child that the exclusively Christian teaching of Religious Education (RE) and collective worship in Northern Ireland are ‘indoctrination’. Alongside mandatory Christian collective worship and a ‘stigmatising’ right of withdrawal, this is therefore discriminatory under human rights law. This ruling will have wide-ranging… Read more »
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By politics.co.uk staff Around 3,500 A-level students with straight-As will not get into university this year, higher education minister David Willetts has warned. He said many top students’ failure to apply to courses with lower entry requirements meant some of Britain’s best-qualified students would miss out this year. “That’s their decision. They can choose how… Read more »
By politics.co.uk staff Many more young people aged 16 to 18 are not in education, employment of training than previously thought, the Audit Commission has claimed. Its report on ‘Neets’ suggests one in four could be in this situation, dramatically more than the ten per cent average estimated by the government’s annual ‘snapshot’ survey during… Read more »
