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Click to the Future: exams to go digital to better prepare the workforce of tomorrow

Digital exams will help young people develop the skills they need for the future, a new report by leading exam board AQA says...

Tuesday, 17 October 2023 00:01

LGA: Free up routes to help people re-join the jobs market

Nearly nine million people who are economically inactive risk being left out of the labour market for even longer due to a complex patchwork of disconnected national schemes and services which fail to directly address their needs, councils warn...

Tuesday, 17 October 2023 00:01

IFS: No room for unfunded tax cuts or spending increases – this year or next

The UK economy remains stuck between weak growth on the one hand and the risk of persistently high inflation on the other....

Tuesday, 17 October 2023 00:01

Historic Total Ban on Snares and Glue Traps use comes into force in Wales

Wales’ historic total ban on the use of snares and glue traps comes into force from today (17 October) helping end the indiscriminate suffering of animals, Rural Affairs Minister Lesley Griffiths has said...

Tuesday, 17 October 2023 00:01

National Audit Office report published on Investigation into Homes for Ukraine

The British public’s generosity enabled the government to move at speed to temporarily support Ukrainians seeking refuge from war...

Tuesday, 17 October 2023 00:01

ASCL comment on digital exams

Responding to a report from AQA, which states that digital exams will help young people develop the skills they need for the future, Tom Middlehurst, Curriculum, Assessment and Inspection Specialist at the Association of School and College Leaders, said...

Tuesday, 17 October 2023 00:01

Leading brain injury charity to relaunch vital Budget for Brain Injury campaign

Headway, the brain injury association, is set to relaunch a key campaign highlighting the urgent need for funding for support services for people living with the effects of brain injury...

Tuesday, 17 October 2023 00:01

Prison reforms will cut reoffending and put worst offenders behind bars for longer

The Lord Chancellor confirmed plans to bring forward legislation to keep rapists, as well as the most serious sexual offenders, behind bars for the entirety of their sentences...

Monday, 16 October 2023 19:05

Regulations published on Intellectual Property

The Design Right, Artist’s Resale Right and Copyright (Amendment) Regulations 2023 amend provisions in 4 separate pieces of Intellectual Property (IP) legislation...

Monday, 16 October 2023 17:27

Prime Minister's statement to the House Hamas attack

Mr Speaker, the attacks in Israel last weekend shocked the world...

Monday, 16 October 2023 17:23