Posts on ‘March 24th, 2010’

Health offers to make biggest cuts using ‘back-office’ savings after today’s budget
Details of reduced government spending in the future began to take shape today as, one by one, Whitehall departments issued figures for efficiency savings.
In an embellishment to the usual hour-long lunchtime budget delivered by the chancellor, the afternoon was filled by the drip-drip publication [...]

Five staff members at a school where a boy suffered a fatal asthma attack are suspended amid an inquiry into the incident.
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My friend John Gunner, who has died aged 76, was a dedicated teacher who influenced education through his work for the National Union of Teachers (NUT). In 1974, John’s speech to the union’s conference was instrumental in its policy of campaigning for the abolition of corporal punishment in state schools, a practice he hated. In 1980 he [...]

The chancellor vows to protect frontline public services, but warns that the forthcoming comprehensive spending review will be “the toughest in decades”
Alistair Darling in his budget speech today renewed promises to protect frontline public services, but warned that the forthcoming comprehensive spending review setting out spending after April 2011 would be “the toughest in decades”.
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The chancellor pledges to create 20,000 more university places this year with a one-off £270m payment.
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Woman shocked when school gives her reprimand and police officer visits with trespass warning
A woman was reported to the police after going to the aid of a child left in a tree because it was the school’s policy not to help youngsters in that situation.
Kim Barrett was passing Manor primary school, in Melksham, Wiltshire, when [...]

Today’s budget included £270m to fund extra places on science, maths, engineering and technology courses

An extra 20,000 university places will be available in England this September on science, maths, engineering and technology degree courses, the chancellor Alistair Darling announced in the budget today.
Darling told the Commons that the cost of the “one-off” places would be [...]

At a glance: the main measures announced by Alistair Darling in his 2010 Budget
Alistair Darling’s statement in fullBudget documents from the Treasury
Economy
• The impact of the economic crisis has meant the UK economy has shrunk by about 6% over the recession
• Growth forecast for 2011 revised down to between 3% and 3.5%. Predicted growth of [...]

New Moore in the Sunderbans falls victim to rising sea levels caused by global warming
For nearly 30 years, India and Bangladesh have argued over control of a tiny rock island in the Bay of Bengal. Now rising sea levels have resolved the dispute for them: the island has gone.
New Moore island in the Sunderbans has [...]

Young People’s Minister Iain Wright today announced the appointments of members of the Board of the Young People’s Learning Agency … (2010/0073)
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