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...Education secretary Gillian Keegan welcomed the unions’ acceptance as “good news” that would bring an end to disruption and allow schools to focus on making up for time lost during the pandemic....
...Murphy’s route to acting was one part accident, three parts drive: the eldest of four children to teacher parents, Brendan and Mary, he grew up in Cork city, in the south of Ireland....
...Mary Bousted and Kevin Courtney, joint general secretaries of the NEU, said the “resounding rejection” of the government’s latest pay offer should leave Keegan “in no doubt that she will need to come back...
...Mary Bousted and Kevin Courtney, joint general secretaries of the NEU, said that the government had “sat on their hands” rather than seeking to resolve the pay dispute....
...Mary Bousted and Kevin Courtney, joint general secretaries of the union, said they were “ready to negotiate” and would pause the strikes in a “sign of goodwill”....
...Meanwhile Mary Bousted, joint head of the National Education Union, called for education secretary Gillian Keegan to “start negotiating” over its demand for above-inflation pay rises for teachers and support...
...Mary Bousted and Kevin Courtney, joint general secretaries of the National Education Union, said on Monday the government had “squandered an opportunity to avoid strike action” and was “unwilling to seriously...
...Gillian Keegan, the education secretary, said the strikes were “deeply disappointing” and that talks with the unions were continuing....
...When unions met Gillian Keegan, the education secretary, this month, they insisted only additional funding for a pay rise would avert strikes....
...Tim Bale, politics professor at Queen Mary University of London, suggested that prosecuting the “culture wars” could offer the Tories a short-term boost, helping them mobilise some activists and pull back...
...I don’t think that I’m the only person to have been captivated by Claire Keegan’s novella Small Things Like These....
...Grossman remained with his wife and children, but the experience made a profound impression on the young Meryl, or Mary Louise, as she was then....
...Keegan, former chair of the Accounting Standards Board and previously the first female audit partner at ‘big four’ firm PwC....
...The panel will include Anne Richards, chief executive of UK investment house M&G; Amelia Fawcett, deputy chair of Swedish investment firm Kinnevik and a non-executive director at HM Treasury; and Mary Keegan...
...“It’s non-negotiable,” Mary Coughlan, the deputy prime minister, told parliament....
...The canonical O’Connor, O’Faolain and Lavin are here, of course; but so are the current Tóibín, Claire Keegan, Keith Ridgeway....
...Mendelssohn’s Lieder ohne Worte follow, along with two cycles for the female voice by Schumann, Frauenliebe und-leben and the Mary Stuart songs....
...The government became progressively keener on training specialists to run its finances under the former regime of Dame Mary Keegan, who in 2004 became head of the government finance profession....
...Later, he would be joined by another guitarist, Tim Keegan, and all-round good egg Terry Edwards on keyboards, bass and horn....
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