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Teachers, trainers, leaders and support staff investigate what works, adapt practice and draw on evidence to improve outcomes for learners. Practitioner research, college-based inquiry and collaborative networks already…

Teaching Judgement in an age of Confident Machines

At the RegRisk Control Forum in London, a slide headed “Bridging the ‘Trust Gap’” brought together a succession of developments in AI policy, regulation and governance. It was quite a reading list; the sort that makes…

Is 'ferritin face' a real thing - and can you really spot low iron from looks?

The content creator puts these features down to her iron levels. It is one of a growing number of videos and posts on TikTok and Instagram claiming that low ferritin - a protein which stores iron in the body - can leave…

Plague risks in Russia and a dangerous delay on WHO pandemic agreement | Letters

But the deeper failure is not Russian. It is that, six years after Covid, we still have no agreed system for sharing pathogens, or for sharing what is made from them. I spent three decades in Hong Kong, through bird flu…

On dementia, we need to tell it how it is | Letter

It gives a list of words and descriptions to avoid, including "dementia sufferer", and lists alternative phrases to be used as "person/people with dementia", "person/people living with dementia" or "person/people living…

Sea bass: a fish by any other name | Brief letters

Or sea bass; either is fine. In the US, the fish is most commonly referenced as branzino, although I prefer the more exciting French name loup de mer (literal translation "wolf of the sea"), all flashing teeth and the…

Is having urine the color of Mountain Dew normal?

What you consume does determine what you see in the toilet. But should urine be neon yellow – or some other hue? Here's what you need to know. What color should urine be? Urine is normally a shade of yellow owing to a…

Almost two-thirds of Australians bulk-billed for all GP care amid extra incentives for doctors

And almost two-thirds (63%) of Australians are now bulk-billed for all their GP care, up from 56% in both 2024 and 2025, which the report says is "likely a reflection of the federal government's recent investment in…

The joy of veg-maxxing: how to eat many, many more plants – without really trying

He had no idea how to change his diet or lifestyle. The man broke down and cried for 45 minutes, leaving Humphries with "no idea of what to do", she says. In the final 15 minutes of the session, scrambling for a quick…

Ethnic minorities in England less likely to get breast cancer diagnosis from routine screening

The research, carried out by academics at the University of Surrey and funded by the charity Breast Cancer Now, involved analysis of 86,564 adults diagnosed with the disease between 2009 and 2019, from the Clinical…