Rushanara Ali MP attacked the Government’s recent decision to replace maintenance grants with loans for lower income students through the back door using a statutory instrument which avoids proper parliamentary scrutiny. Despite substantial opposition the Government used an obscure parliamentary committee to push through their changes to higher education funding on 14 January 2016. This denied debate to a policy ...

Tower Hamlets Mayor, John Biggs, held his first Mayoral Assembly at Swanlea School on January 21. More than 80 residents, business owners and voluntary sector partners attended to feedback ideas and concerns about the Whitechapel Vision; work being done to create jobs for local people; support for businesses and local anti-social behaviour issues. Discussion was particularly lively around affordable housing ...

Bangla Mirror Desk :: David Cameron has been accused of using inflammatory language about refugees after referring to people in camps at Calais as a “bunch of migrants”. The prime minister made the comments in the House of Commons on Wednesday as he criticised Jeremy Corbyn’s call for Britain to do more to help refugees in French camps. Pointing at ...

Bangla Mirror Desk :: Curry has been one of Britain’s most loved foods since the 1940s. Currently it is a huge industry generating over £4.1 billion for the economy with over 15,000 outlets in the UK from big cities to the smallest of villages. Yet the industry is struggling to survive weighed down by staff shortages, immigration laws, competition from ...

Newly appointed British High Commissioner in Dhaka Alison Blake recently said that her country would continue to work with the government, political parties, democratic institutions, and other stakeholders to help ‘flourish democracy’ in Bangladesh. Blake, the first female High Commissioner from UK to Bangladesh, made the remark while talking to journalists at her first interaction with media after taking over ...

The 24-hour Tube strike due to start tomorrow evening and last most of Wednesday was dramatically called off this afternoon. Leaders of the RMT decided to suspend the strike after receiving a revised offer from London Underground (LU) in the bitter Night Tube and pay dispute. All other Tube unions decided last week to suspend the strikes to allow further ...

Too few teachers – particularly history teachers – are being trained to teach the Holocaust in England, the Education Select Committee says. Although good Holocaust teaching material is available, the majority of teachers are “self-taught” with little professional development, MPs say. They also call for steps to be taken to preserve the words of Holocaust survivors for future generations. Ministers ...

The government is looking at calls to take in thousands of unaccompanied refugee children who have made it into Europe, a Cabinet minister says. Charities have been calling on the UK to admit 3,000 child refugees as part of its response to the migrant crisis. International Development Secretary Justine Greening said ministers were considering “whether we can do more” for ...

Ansar Ahmed Ullah :   The UK will provide £30million in new funding to help the most vulnerable people, including children and infants, arriving in Europe and fleeing the Syrian conflict, the International Development Secretary for the UK Justine Greening has announced. Meeting the urgent needs of around 27,000 children that have fled to the Balkans, Greece, and Italy, the ...

David Cameron has held a meeting in Downing Street with the jailed former president of the Maldives and his lawyer, Amal Clooney. Mohamed Nasheed thanked the Prime Minister for his support after he was temporarily released from prison to allow him to travel to London for back surgery. The Maldives government has requested that Mr Nasheed return to the islands ...