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The Dental Defence Union (DDU) has raised concerns about the increased workload and accountability for dentists taking on the supervision of provisionally registered colleagues who qualified overseas. Responding to Department of Health and Social Care provisional registration for overseas-qualified dentists the DDU says it has profound misgivings about whether the system being proposed is workable and practical from a workforce and patient safety… Read more »
BASC’s head of firearms Bill Harriman has written to the Chief Constable of West Mercia Police to challenge its decision to make all applications for firearms and shotgun certificates online only. The force announced this week that from 1 May printed applications would no longer be accepted. In a letter to Chief Constable Alex Murray,… Read more »
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Around 500 schools in the UK are “seriously underperforming” a top government adviser has said. Sir Cyril Taylor, who heads the Specialist Schools and Academies Trust, made the revelations in an interview today, saying that around 80,000 secondary students are suffering because of weak schools. He said that in approximately 500 underperforming schools, less than… Read more »
It could take a decade for the government’s reforms to improve standards in England’s secondary schools, David Blunkett has argued. The former education secretary said changes to nursery and primary schools had raised the results of national tests in the late 1990s. During an interview with his successor, Estelle Morris, on the Teachers’ TV channel,… Read more »
