Hints and tips:
Related Special Reports
...Eton College, one of Britain’s most prestigious public schools, has told pupils to study from home after heavy rainfall caused sewage issues on its site....
...This article is part of the Financial Times free schools access programme. Details/registration here....
...Peter CalowProfessor, Humphrey School of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota,Minneapolis, MN, US...
...We were tennis clubs and “good schools” and weird ancient covenants that meant, in our parish, there were no pubs. The late singer Kirsty MacColl, who grew up there, hoped it would “blow up”....
...The Labour party has tapped into public hostility by promising to charge VAT on school fees....
...Pension fund investors in Blackstone from New York, North Carolina and Denmark were publicly critical, as was the California Public Employees’ Retirement System (Calpers)....
...Why more executive careers should start in a parish council: A really lovely column from Margaret Heffernan, chief executive, author — and parish councillor....
...Indicate your readiness to take on other public duties, sitting on a government review, leading a social initiative like a new school....
...Plenty of Conservatives hanker for a return to the old system of grammar schools and secondary moderns, a version of which is still used in Northern Ireland and remains in a few English counties....
...There has been a debate over whether pre-school provision should be geared towards the needs of parents’ work or children’s education, and the government has “clearly said now that the early years system...
...The drop in trust “is very serious because this is what liberal democracy is about”, said Tony Travers, professor in the department of government at the London School of Economics....
...poverty and inequality in the UK (IFS) — Why decarbonising power means thinking like a utility (Center for Active Stewardship) — There is absolutely nothing wrong with this Formula 1 car-part management system...
...Labour had earmarked revenue from these measures for school breakfast clubs in primary schools and helping fund the net zero transition. Reeves said Labour was still committed to the policies....
...“We continue to invest significantly in our police and justice system . . . and will deliver over £600bn of planned public sector investment over the next five years,” the Treasury said....
...Prime Minister Han Duck-soo said public hospitals would extend service hours during weekdays and remain open on weekends and holidays to minimise the growing disruption to public health....
...The Institute for Public Policy Research has warned in a new report that it will take nearly a decade to shrink NHS waiting lists back to 2010 levels, while the backlog in the court system is unlikely to...
...A recent Ipsos poll found that 57 per cent of the public supported Labour’s proposals to end VAT exemptions for private schools....
...Public health experts say that often state measures are only loosely enforced on the ground, however....
...BAE Systems, Britain’s leading defence group and key supplier of ammunition to the UK’s armed forces, is expected to be among the biggest beneficiaries of increased spending....
...It found the asylum system “is now creaking under the weight of a historically large backlog of cases”....
...This will be followed by a minimum of £20mn a year over 10 years to build more homes, develop the transport network and support local schools....
...This programme drove improvement: our school system is much better than it was 30 years ago....
...Would they prefer the next government to spend more on free childcare, better funding for schools, lower fees for university or an increased number of apprenticeships?...
...Antoninis said donors such as wealthy countries and the World Bank had failed to support countries in developing better measurement systems, and there were flaws in the systems used in lower-income countries...
...South Korea’s healthcare system was placed on its highest state of alert last week after thousands of trainee doctors resigned in protest against government plans to increase medical school admissions....
International Edition