Higher Education
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 »
Humanists UK is celebrating the ten year anniversary of the first same-sex marriages in England and Wales. Whereas the Marriage (Same-Sex Couples) Act received Royal Assent on 17 July 2013, it took some time to implement this change, so the Act only came into force the following year. The first same-sex marriages took place just after midnight… Read more »
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By Alex Stevenson The coalition government is undergoing its biggest test since its inception, as protestors march through London while MPs debate tuition fees. Significant numbers of both Liberal Democrat and Conservative backbenchers have warned party whips that they may not be able to support the government on this evening’s motion. Last-minute agonising is being… Read more »
By Peter Wozniak The government’s plans to cut higher education funding will mean that tuition fees of nearly £7,000 will be the norm rather than the exception, a union warns. In justifying the raising of the cap on tuition fees to £9,000, the coalition has made it a cornerstone of their argument that universities which… Read more »