Three in five schools plan to rely on tests when deciding GCSE and A-level grades – even though official exams are cancelled A survey by the school leaders’ union ASCL found seven per cent of schools will base assessments entirely on exam-style papers Fifty three per cent said they would give greater weight to exam-style … Read more
Complaints about travel insurance have tripled over the past year as thousands of fed-up holidaymakers had claims declined or delayed during the Covid-19 crisis. Exclusive data from the Financial Ombudsman Service, which resolves disputes between customers and businesses, shows that more than 6,000 complaints were filed between April and December 2020, a 208 per cent … Read more
Should you rely on the websites tradesmen PAY to be listed on? By Toby Walne, Financial Mail on Sunday Published: 21:52 BST, 24 October 2020 | Updated: 21:52 BST, 24 October 2020 Warning: Checkatrade and Rated People charge traders to be on their websites Consumers groups are warning householders to be wary of a flurry … Read more
1) University of Glasgow 31% of total tuition income paid by Chinese students £70million estimated income from Chinese students 10% of students from China 2) University of Liverpool 29% of total tuition income paid by Chinese students £89million estimated income from Chinese students 19% of students from China 3) University of Sheffield 26% of total … Read more
Britain will either have to raise taxes or cut spending to pay £2TRILLION covid bill: New head of the government’s OBR watchdog warns UK can’t rely on inflation to pay off debt over decades The new head of the OBR warned that inflation will not tackle the UK’s debt pile Richard Hughes said 30 per … Read more
Should Chinese firms be allowed to take charge of building vital parts of Britain’s infrastructure, such as our 5G phone networks and nuclear power plants in Suffolk and Essex? Senior Tories increasingly think they should not. Sceptical MPs believe Britain cannot cede control of such important assets to firms that must ultimately bow to the … Read more
People who rely on social media for information about coronavirus are more likely to believe conspiracy theories and go outside with symptoms or breach lockdown rules, a new study revealed today. Research published by the Psychological Medicine journal found that 60 per of people who believe that Covid-19 was directly linked to the world’s growing … Read more
Unlike the UK and many other countries, Germany never gave up on contact tracing, even as infections ballooned. While Britain’s Ministers stopped trying to keep tabs on new infections on March 12 – believing there was little point as cases were likely to head into the millions – Germany persevered by doggedly pursuing the contacts … Read more
My elderly mum died recently leaving the family home, which was in her sole name as my dad died many years ago, to my older brother and I. He is actually a half-brother – my mum’s son from her first marriage – and is now 65, single and childless. He has had, since he was … Read more
‘The US needs to win the vaccine race’: Former FDA commissioner says Americans cannot rely on Europe and China for jab to prevent coronavirus Dr Scott Gottlieb was the US Food and Drug Administration commissioner from 2017 to April 2019 In an op-ed for The Wall Street Journal, he says its vital the US manufactures … Read more