An extra 750,000 school places will be needed in England by 2025 to keep up with a population bulge, says an official forecast from the Department for Education. The pressure on creating new schools and extra classrooms will be one of the challenges for incoming Education Secretary Justine Greening. Schools will have faced 16 consecutive years of rising pupil numbers. ...
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Sadiq Khan orders London security review after Nice attack
Sadiq Khan ordered a review of security in London today as he declared that the capital stood “united with Nice and France” after the “unspeakable act of terror” on the French city. Police, City Hall and other security experts will examine if new measures are needed in London following the Nice lorry attack carnage in which at least 84 people were killed. It ...
Read More »Can Bangladesh ever have Chilcot-type thoroughinquiry report?
In 2003, UK with USA and 46 other countries went to the warin Iraq on the grounds of Saddam Hossain had mass destruction weapons which could be activated within 45 minutes. Most of the fellow MPs along with people at large were opposing the UK’s invasion of Iraq, but Mr. Tony Blair being the then prime minister of the UK ...
Read More »Fahrenheit 85.9 Near Arctic Ocean Shores — Extreme Heat wave Settled in Over North-Central Siberia, Canada’s Northern Tier
By Fatema Miah : 70.8 North, 69.2 East. It’s the Latitude Long co-ordinate location of a section of the Yamal Peninsula in Siberian Russia. A typically chilly region of frozen but now thawing ground more than 4 degrees of Latitude north of the Arctic Circle. A place that saw the appearance of odd, disturbing (and now controversial) methane blowholes pockmarking ...
Read More »PLAIN TRUTH : Eid Mubarak to you all from the Masjid al-Haram
Words of Peace from the Land of Peace Dr. Mozammel Haque : Makkah al-Mukarramah: I wish all of you a happy Eid Mubarak 2016 from the Masjid-al-Haram in the Balad al-Ameen. The Saudi Royal Court announced that Wednesday has been declared as the first day of Eid-ul-Fitr, a celebration marking the end of fasting in Ramadan. The declaration was ...
Read More »UK’s next prime minister very confident
Rayhan Ahmed Topader : Theresa May is the new Conservative Party leader and will become the UK’s second female prime minister on Wednesday, taking charge at one of the most turbulent times in recent political history.The 59-year-old home secretary’s carefully cultivated image of political dependability and unflappability appears to have made her the right person at the right time as the ...
Read More »David Cameron prepares to hand over to Theresa May
David Cameron will leave Downing Street for the final time as PM later, with Theresa May waiting to replace him. Mr Cameron will face his last Prime Minister’s Questions in the Commons, before heading to Buckingham Palace to tender his resignation to the Queen. He told the Daily Telegraph: “As I leave today, I hope that people will see a stronger ...
Read More »Theresa May expected to appoint women to top roles after becoming Britain’s second female PM
Theresa May will make appointing a cabinet minister to take charge of Brexit one of her first tasks as she takes the keys to No 10. Britain’s new prime minister will swiftly begin drawing up her new top team and is expected to increase the number of women in government. Energy secretary Amber Rudd is expected to be given a ...
Read More »Who is Theresa May: A profile of UK’s next prime minister
Theresa May is the new Conservative Party leader and will become the UK’s second female prime minister on Wednesday, taking charge at one of the most turbulent times in recent political history. The 59-year-old home secretary’s carefully cultivated image of political dependability and unflappability appears to have made her the right person at the right time as the fallout from ...
Read More »Free school meals: Report on struggling small schools ‘not published’
The Department for Education has refused to publish a report which said England’s smallest schools cannot afford to provide free school meals, according to a former policy adviser. Restaurateur John Vincent, former adviser on school food, told BBC’s Radio 4 the move was “undemocratic”. It comes after the government scrapped extra funding to help small schools with food costs earlier ...
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