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England’s education recovery plan should focus on wellbeing, not on ‘catching up’
Gorynvd/Shutterstock The most recent lockdown and school closures have, once again, thrown educational provision in England into crisis. Nearly a full year of disruption of schooling will have had a serious effect on children’s education. The outgoing children’s commissioner, Anne Longfield, has called for children to be at the heartContinue Reading
New Cluster Programme Director at A&P Defence
Jonathan Green has been appointed as RFA Cluster Programme Director within A&P’s Defence Division at A&P Falmouth. Jonathan is now responsible for managing A&P’s dedicated Cluster Support Team (CST), which provides all engineering and management support to RFA Mounts Bay, RFA Lyme Bay, RFA Cardigan Bay, RFA Argus and HMSContinue Reading
Potato sector levy payers, AHDB wants you to vote
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Every young person deserves a good childhood
As someone who feels very strongly about the plight of children and young people, I wanted to draw attention to The Children’s Society, a charity whose story begins in 1881 when a young Sunday School teacher and Civil Servant in South London saw the effects of poverty on children andContinue Reading
David Warner Enters Draft For Inaugural Edition Of The Hundred | Cricket News
David Warner is one of 10 overseas players in the highest reserve price bracket.© AFP Australia star David Warner is on a list of more than 250 players vying for the seven remaining overseas places, in the draft for the inaugural edition of English cricket’s Hundred competition. The 100 balls-per-sideContinue Reading
Europe is recruiting astronauts: here’s what it takes to become one
Future astronauts will visit Mars. Shutterstock/Vadim Sadovski For the first time in 11 years, the European Space Agency (Esa) is recruiting new astronauts. Applications will open on the 31 March 2021 for eight weeks, followed by a six-stage selection process to identify the next generation of European astronauts. By 2030,Continue Reading
Coronavirus: is the Kent variant responsible for the rise in cases among young people in Israel and Italy?
At the start of the pandemic, one of the first questions scientists asked was: “What is the risk to children?” Information emerging from China was that – pre-existing conditions aside – the younger you are, the lower your risk of getting severe COVID. While children’s lives have been taken byContinue Reading
Ransomware gangs are running riot – paying them off doesn’t help
Jaruwan Jaiyangyuen/Shutterstock In the past five years, ransomware attacks have evolved from rare misfortunes into common and disruptive threats. Hijacking the IT systems of organisations and forcing them to pay a ransom in order to reclaim them, cybercriminals are freely extorting millions of pounds from companies – and they’re enjoyingContinue Reading
The science of ‘mind-reading’: our new test reveals how well we understand others
Nope, we are not talking about telepathy. Sanja Karin Music/Shutterstock Mind-reading sounds like science fiction. But the term, also referred to as “mentalising”, is a psychological concept used to describe the process of understanding what other people are thinking. We may not be aware of it, but we use mind-readingContinue Reading
‘Patriots’ in America: how fighting for your country has taken on new meaning for Trump supporters
Despite Donald Trump’s seeming lack of interest in the project, a number of his followers around the US have been flirting with the idea of forming a breakaway party of the right to challenge the Republican establishment. Most of these have names which use the word “patriot”. In Florida, formerContinue Reading