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Tomorrow, MPs are expected to finish the Report Stage of the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill and cast their final votes at its Third Reading. If MPs vote in favour of the Bill, it will then head to the House of Lords for further scrutiny. Supporters of assisted dying will be gathering on… Read more »
Today marks the 20th anniversary of the first legally recognised humanist marriage in Scotland. Over 50,000 humanist weddings have happened since. Humanists UK congratulates Humanist Society Scotland on this momentous occasion and calls for the UK Government to act so that humanists in England and Wales can have the same right to marry in line… Read more »
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By Alex Stevenson The A-level qualification risks becoming defunct despite its status in schools as a “means to an end”, a report by the Civitas thinktank claims. Its research among senior A-level teachers suggests only a slim minority believe more able students or better teachers have explained the steady rise in grades. Instead the ready… Read more »
By Ian Dunt The Tories want school league tables to be replaced by a points system which would weigh traditional academic subjects over those seen as easier, like media studies. In a set of proposals presented by shadow education secretary Michael Gove, the party shrugged off the reliance on a league table system, which ranks… Read more »
