Does the Traditional Family Still Exist?
According to a new survey, less than one fifth of all people in the UK think that they belong to a traditional family. The research was carried out by a think tank and found that around 8 out of 10 people thought that the family to which they belong did not fit the stereotype of [...]
A new report that has come out from the UK has revealed that around 4 million children in the UK do not own a book. The report has come out from the National Literacy Trust in the UK. The number of children who do not own books is on the rise according to the report [...]
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With a series of strikes to take place across the UK’s schools this Wednesday the teachers who are to take part in the strikes are being warned by the UK government that there is no hidden pot of gold in the coiffeurs to take care of the need for the demands of the unions. The [...]
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An effigy of the United States President Barrack Obama has been set alight by a group of students from St Andrews University in Scotland. The group belonged to the Conservative Students Association at the university. The event took place on Friday evening on a beach close to the university. It is thought to have come [...]
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News has come out that thousands of teachers in the UK have voted in huge numbers to approve strike action in order to try and improve their pay and pensions. Thousands of teachers in the UK have voted to strike over changes to The NASUWT union has stated that around 80% of members who voted [...]
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The social networking site Facebook has made a statement saying that it has now eliminated all of the pornographic and violent images from its site that were posted as part of a spam attack. Facebook said it has rid its site of most of the pornographic and violent images posted as part of a spam [...]
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The host of next year’s Oscars has quit as the show’s presenter. Eddie Murphy (the comedian and actor) has announced that he will no longer be hosting the awards that are due to be held in February next year. His announcement comes just a day after the resignation of the producer of the show, Brett [...]
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Figures from the UK show that the number of young people in the UK who are taking on apprenticeships rather than going to university has doubled in the last year. According to the latest figures there were over 442,000 apprenticeships that started in the academic year of 2010/2011, whereas last year there were only 279,000 [...]
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Latest figures have indicated that there seems to be fewer students that are taking up university places this year. Current numbers are running at around 9% less than they were at this time last year. The report has come from the Ucas admission service for the UK, which handles all of the admissions into university. [...]
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A report from the UK shows that in excess of 450,000 school children from England (which makes up for about 7% of the population of children who are in school) regularly missed lessons in the autumn term of last year and that these figures were consists again in the Spring term of 2011 The Department [...]
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