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Responding to today’s announcement that the GMC is seeking views on a revised version of Good medical practice, the Medical Defence Union (MDU) said that it will be scrutinising the significant changes being proposed. The MDU, the UK’s leading medical defence organisation, explained that regulations must be compatible with the realities of doctors’ working lives and… Read more »
BASC, the UK’s largest shooting and conservation organisation, has expelled for life a member convicted of wildlife crime and firearms offences. Expulsion from BASC involves the loss of shooting insurance, on which the ability to shoot may depend, and other benefits of membership. The member from Nottinghamshire pleaded guilty to unlawfully trapping and beating to… Read more »
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The government has intervened in the university pay dispute and urged lecturers’ unions to put the latest offer to a ballot of their members. Higher education minister Bill Rammell said yesterday’s final offer of a 13.1 per cent pay increase over three years was rejected by union leaders “seemingly out of hand”. “I am extremely… Read more »
Students will be able to apply for university after receiving their A-level results, in a radical shake-up of the system announced by the government today. Ministers hope to introduce a post-qualification application system (PQA) by 2012, to ensure students have the best chance of going to the university of their choice. Currently, young people must… Read more »
