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Delays to firearms licensing are set to reach record highs causing significant complications for certificate holders according to the UK’s largest shooting organisation, the British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC). Covid restrictions, regulatory medical involvement and a peak in firearms licensing renewals has caused mass disruption across licensing departments in England and Wales. In… Read more »
Applications for BASC’s legacy funded scholarship programme aimed at supporting further education opportunities in conservation, land management and gamekeeping have opened for the 2022 intake. The scholarship is directed at assisting students wanting to progress their education in the land management sector. Scholarships this year are in memory of Mr Herbert Heywood, who kindly left… Read more »
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The government’s efforts to improve early-years education have not had a significant effect on children starting primary school, research has found. Academics at Durham University looked at the impact of the government’s various pre-school initiatives on school starters, using performance indicators in primary schools (PIP). Researchers at the university’s Curriculum, Evaluation and Management Centre looked… Read more »
The government should be cautious about relying on private money to fund new school building projects, a committee of MPs has warned. The Commons education committee welcomed the government’s investment in school building but said the benefits would be lost if the government rushed through projects. Around half of the £35 billion rebuild programme is… Read more »
