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• Launch natural history GCSE in England now, campaigners urge Labour

  25-01-2025 19:08
  Environmentalists say new course could be delayed until 2030 because it is viewed as Conservative party initiativeLeading environmentalists have called on the government to introduce a natural history GCSE immediately, amid fears it could be postponed until 2030.The previous Conservative administration had supported creating the GCSE, which would teach pupils how to observe, identify and classify plants and animals. Continue reading...
  
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• Inadequate schools ‘left to fester’ by Tories, says Labour in academies row

  25-01-2025 18:24
  Dozens of underperforming schools have been forced to wait more than a year to reopen under new managementDozens of schools rated inadequate by Ofsted have faced waits of more than a year before reopening, amid accusations from Labour that they were “left to fester” by the former Conservative government.The state of schools and the future of academies has become the subject of an increasingly fraught political row. The Tory leader, Kemi Badenoch, accused Keir Starmer last week of &ld
  
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• Why the financial crisis at the British Council matters as UK pushes soft power

  25-01-2025 06:00
  Labour’s recognition of soft power’s intangible value should take in the crucial work of the British Council• British Council could disappear within a decade, says chief executiveSomething is jarring when the foreign secretary, David Lammy, regards UK soft power as so important he establishes a council to promote the country globally, while one of the longstanding British institutions devoted to bolstering that power is on the verge of a form of bankruptcy.The financial plight o
  
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• British Council could disappear within a decade, says chief executive

  25-01-2025 06:00
  Exclusive: Scott McDonald is looking at budget cuts and axing the organisation’s presence in up to 40 countries• Why the financial crisis at the British Council matters as UK pushes soft powerThe British Council could “disappear” within a decade, harming the UK’s global status and leaving an international vacuum to be filled by Russia and China, unless the government acts to save it, according to the council’s leader.Scott McDonald, the British Council’s
  
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• Axel Rudakubana: from ‘unassuming’ schoolboy to Southport killer

  25-01-2025 06:00
  
  How a chain of events apparently beginning at school five years ago led to the murder of three girls in horrific atrocityWhen Axel Rudakubana returned to school after the summer holidays five years ago, something had changed. He had turned 13 weeks earlier but this was not the usual difficult transition to teenage life.“In year 7 and year 8 he was fairly unassuming. Nothing that would be red flags,” said a source close to Range high school in the seaside town of Formby, Merseyside. &
  
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