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The British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC) has been granted permission by the High Court to bring a judicial review of Defra’s decision to withdraw the general licence (GL43) that allowed the release of gamebirds in certain areas of England. BASC’s ‘Fighting Fund’ is being used to support the High Court challenge. BASC chief executive Ian… Read more »
Long overdue legislation setting out the regulatory framework for physician assistants (PAs) and anaesthesia assistants (AAs) has been published today. Commenting on the legislation, Dr Michael Devlin, head of professional standards and liaison at the MDU said: “This important piece of legislation not only introduces much needed regulation for PAs and AAs, it will also be… Read more »
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By Liz Stephens Thousands of state school pupils are failing to apply to the most selective universities despite having the necessary grades. A report by the Sutton Trust and the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills has found that pupils from the top performing independent schools made twice as many applications to leading research universities… Read more »
By Liz Stephens A review of university tuition fees will be announced today, with fees widely expected to go up. Peter Mandelson will make a speech today at Birkbeck University, where he will say: “The historic anti-elitism of some parts of the left on education policy has often been a dead end because it has… Read more »