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Schools Face Sending Whole Classes Home After Spike In Covid Cases

Unions have warned that schools may soon begin sending home whole classes as a result of a rise in positive Covid cases among pupils and the shortage of supply teachers to keep lessons running.

19 Oct Coronavirus

MP Calls For "Buffer Zones" Around Schools After Anti-Vaccine Groups Targeted Parents And Children

IKEA continues to champion climate action by joining COP26 as a Partner

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06 Oct Environment

IKEA continues to champion climate action by joining COP26 as a Partner

24 Sep Education

Freedom Of Speech Bill Could Cost Universities And Student Unions £48m

15 Sep Education

Every Move In Boris Johnson's Cabinet Reshuffle

Betting Industry Backs ‘Plan For Jobs’ With Pledge To Create 5,000 Apprenticeships

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06 Sep Education

Betting Industry Backs ‘Plan For Jobs’ With Pledge To Create 5,000 Apprenticeships

03 Sep Coronavirus

JCVI Says Covid-19 Vaccines For 12-15 Year Olds Not Recommended, But Sajid Javid Disagrees

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Bridging the digital divide is now a matter of solving the wealth gap

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15 Oct Coronavirus

Bridging the digital divide is now a matter of solving the wealth gap

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15 Oct Health

‘Take Time to Think’ is another step on our journey to keep customers safe and in control of their betting

$When it comes to levelling up, the UK’s fractured health outcomes should be high on the agenda$ Partner content

14 Oct Coronavirus

When it comes to levelling up, the UK’s fractured health outcomes should be high on the agenda

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13 Aug Coronavirus

Scientists Call Government "Reckless" Over Lack Of Covid-19 Measures In Schools

Independent Sage scientists have said the government's decision to remove Covid-19 mitigation measures from schools in September is “reckless”, and risks causing more cases and hospitalisations among the young.

05 Aug Education

After the Global Education Summit, UK aid needs a smarter strategy

To build on the contributions made last week at the Global Education Summit, we must also deliver the conditions children need to thrive, including good health and nutrition, political stability and economic opportunity, by delivering development programmes in parallel.

15 May Education

Academics And Officials Have Questioned The Evidence Behind Gavin Williamson’s “Excessive” University Free Speech Bill

Several academics and university officials have questioned the evidence underpinning Gavin Williamson’s new Bill aimed at ensuring free speech at UK universities.

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15 Oct Health

Betting And Gaming Council launches new ‘Take Time To Think’ campaign in fresh drive to promote safer gambling

Standards body the Betting and Gaming Council has launched a new campaign aimed at encouraging customers to use the wide range of safer gambling tools offered by its members.

05 Oct Education

We need to deliver real substance on ‘levelling up’ or it will become a meaningless sound bite

In the midst of party conference season, the country is facing issues over the cost of living, with rising food and gas prices as a result of a shortage of HGV drivers, and increasing global demand, which is having a huge impact on families across Britain.

05 Oct Education

We must act to stop our children’s life chances being forever harmed by Covid

As we emerge into a world changed by Covid, we need an education system that gives everyone, no matter their background or where they are in the country, the chance to climb the ladder of opportunity.

Reversing biodiversity decline will require decisive action across our society

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04 Oct Environment

Reversing biodiversity decline will require decisive action across our society

Amid the urgency of action to tackle climate change, the issue of biodiversity collapse can easily get lost. In the UK and most countries across the world, biodiversity is declining at an alarming rate, yet understanding of the correlation between climate change and biodiversity loss is lacking.

Six decades on, Coca-Cola’s Sidcup site is leading the way on sustainability

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01 Oct Environment

Six decades on, Coca-Cola’s Sidcup site is leading the way on sustainability

This week the first of our 500ml bottles made from 100% recycled plastic have come off the line at our Sidcup factory. This is just the start of our green journey as we strive to become Net Zero by 2040 – and Sidcup is at the heart of our sustainbility plans

Serious about combatting climate change? - It’s time to talk about the cow in the room

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30 Sep Environment

Serious about combatting climate change? - It’s time to talk about the cow in the room

Today marks the start of the Pre-COP summit, the last chance for world leaders to discuss climate change mitigation strategies ahead of the upcoming negotiations at the United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26) in November in Glasgow. If COP26 organisers are serious about meeting the Paris Agreement and “keeping 1.5 degrees alive” to limit the potentially catastrophic impact of global warming, it’s crucial that all leading drivers of climate change are acknowledged and addressed. Yet, until now, one topic has remained the cow in the room: intensive animal agriculture.