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Applications for BASC’s legacy funded scholarship programme aimed at supporting further education opportunities in conservation, land management and gamekeeping have opened for the 2022 intake. The scholarship is directed at assisting students wanting to progress their education in the land management sector. Scholarships this year are in memory of Mr Herbert Heywood, who kindly left… Read more »
The removal of gamekeeping and wildlife management courses from the education syllabus by 2023 has been described by the rural sector as “deeply concerning” in an open letter to the Secretary of State for Education, Nadhim Zahawi. The letter states the removal of the Land & Wildlife course within the new T Level system will… Read more »
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Labour has today branded the government’s new childcare plans “pathetic”. The government said that in order to “drive down costs for providers and parents” it will consider slashing required staff-to-child ratios from 1:4 to 1:5 for two-year-olds. Childcare for children aged 0-2 is the most expensive for providers to deliver, largely given the need for higher… Read more »
Higher education providers face long-term, systemic, pressures on their financial sustainability and viability, with the proportion of providers with an in-year deficit having increased in every one of the past four years. This has risen from 5 per cent in the 2015 to 2016 academic year, to 32 per cent in 2019-20. Against this backdrop… Read more »
