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The Medical Defence Union (MDU), the UK’s leading medical defence organisation, has launched a new partnership with independent charity Doctors in Distress to provide MDU members with access to health and wellbeing services to support positive mental health. The partnership, launched today (13th November) to coincide with World Kindness Day, focuses on two initiatives. The… Read more »
Humanists UK has welcomed the announcement of a Private Members’ Bill which would disestablish the Church of England and separate church and state. Currently the Church of England is the official state religion of England, and the monarch is both the head of state and the head of the Church of England. The practice of… Read more »
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by Peter Wozniak The education secretary has expressed optimism over the progress of his ‘free school’ reforms, despite only a small number of proposals likely to come to come to fruition by September 2011. Just 16 proposals have progressed to the next stage of development with a view to starting up at the beginning of… Read more »
by Peter Wozniak The two largest teaching unions have lambasted the coalition government’s plans for increasing the number of state schools taking on academy status. The government has confirmed that thirty-two schools will take up academy status this academic term as a result of the academies bill that allows headteachers at ‘outstanding’ state schools to… Read more »
