Archive for November, 2009
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Posted by admin in Uncategorized on 06/11/2009
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Updated: When outsiders are called in
Posted by Laura Brereton in Health on 03/11/2009
Back in May, we discussed the rampant use of management consultants within the NHS. It looks as though the DH is now cracking down on the same problem.
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Was Alan Johnson Right to Call for Professor Nutt’s Resignation?
Posted by David Conway in Crime, Health, Politics on 03/11/2009
Many prominent scientists are currently up in arms over the Home Secretary’s call for Professor David Nutt to resign as chairman of the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD) for having publicly criticised the Government for not accepting its advice that cannabis should not be up-graded from a class C to a class B drug.
In loco parentis
Posted by Anastasia de Waal in Education on 02/11/2009
A recent poll conducted by the Association of Teachers and Lecturers (ATL), exposing the extent to which school staff have been wrongfully accused of malpractice by pupils, problematises the government’s circuitous route to establishing safe and settled classrooms.