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New employment hub at Uxbridge College to help young people into work

As part of a joint venture with the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), two Job Coaches from local Job Centres will be permanently based at Uxbridge College. The Future Start partnership brings together Hillingdon…

SEND Providers Are Already at the Table: The Challenge Is When We Listen

Alongside this, there is a welcome and growing emphasis on inclusion, participation and creating opportunities for people who have traditionally faced barriers to education and employment. Yet despite these ambitions…

The Letby inquiry report makes one thing crystal clear: too much NHS management is scandalously poor | Tom Dolphin

The least we owe those families is a determination to now make the right changes – not the comfortable ones, not the partial ones, but the ones that will stop further avoidable deaths and injury. Lady Justice Thirlwall's…

Abortion bans make ‘evidence-based medicine’ impossible in some cases, new report says

The Dobbs decision made it even more challenging for patients to access abortion care in the US, as more restrictions went into effect in some states. Deaths from ectopic pregnancies nearly doubled between 2020 and 2025…

Dame Shelagh Legrave and Jo Maher join Education Training Foundation as Special Advisers

Both will help drive the delivery of ETF’s refreshed strategy, including new initiatives and interventions designed to support the FE and skills workforce in areas such as leadership and governance, SEND and inclusion…

£37.8m UK Government Local Growth Fund provides Green Light for Major New Housing and Green Skills Hubs

Additionally, the funds will drive regional employability and business growth initiatives, while financing transport planning and research into the impact of AI. The UK Government has now released £14.09m to Edinburgh…

Microplastics in soil pose global threat by acting like ‘Trojan horse’ to deliver toxins

The EU-funded project, which has so far resulted in 22 peer-reviewed studies , found microplastics in the soil of all 227 agricultural fields it tested across 11 European countries. The researchers said this poses a…

From North Wales to Vietnam and the NHS – former student sets sights on oncology

Her degree included a medical elective in Vietnam, where she gained hands-on experience within an unfamiliar healthcare system and used the placement as a springboard to travel more widely across South East Asia – an…

Indeed Reveals the UK’s Biggest Job Hotspots

Analysis of UK job postings on Indeed between January and July 2026 reveals London remains the country’s biggest hiring centre by a considerable margin, accounting for 13.1% of all UK job postings . Manchester ranks…

Datacenter rush will create ‘tsunami’ of discarded electronics, report says

The electronic trash AI generates in the next 25 years could fill enough shipping containers to encircle the globe six times, it said. Yet, says the report by the non-profit environmental group Basel Action Network…