Teacher assessments will replace GCSE and A-level exams in England this summer, the education secretary has announced. “This year, we’re going to put our trust in teachers, rather than algorithms,” Gavin Williamson told MPs in the Commons. Setting out his plans for students as MPs prepared to vote on England’s latest lockdown, Mr Williamson said
Month: January 2021
Boris Johnson says he had “no choice” but to implement another national lockdown in England as “the facts are changing” on coronavirus infections. The prime minister told MPs that the government will use “every available second” to place an “invisible shield” around elderly and vulnerable people through the rollout of COVID-19 vaccines. Follow live updates
Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine has been approved for use by the EU’s drug regulator. The decision by the European Medicines Agency came on the same day as the Netherland’s began administering its first doses against coronavirus. EMA executive director Emer Cooke said: “This vaccine provides us with another tool to overcome the current emergency.” The decision,
Renowned French chef and restaurateur Albert Roux has died at the age of 85, his family has announced. The Roux family said he had been unwell for some time before he died on Monday. He was famous for opening Le Gavroche in London with his late brother Michel Roux, who died last year, in 1967.
Democrat Raphael Warnock has unseated Kelly Loeffler in the Georgia Senate election, NBC news projects. The final votes are being counted in two key Senate runoff elections that will determine control of the US Senate and the fate of Joe Biden’s presidency. Warnock and fellow Democrat Jon Ossoff need to win both races to seize
Malaysian researchers have developed a method to transform the fibre found in normally discarded pineapple leaves to make a strong material that can be used to build the frames for unmanned aircraft, or drones. The project, headed by Professor Mohamed Thariq Hameed Sultan at Malaysia’s Putra University, has been trying to find sustainable uses for
Rapper and producer Dr Dre is in hospital in LA being treated for a reported brain aneurysm. The music mogul said he would hopefully be “back home soon” after receiving medical treatment at the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. He took to Instagram to post a message of thanks from his bed at the
January 6th, 2021 by Johnna Crider It’s a mid-late Sunday morning and as my cats race around my home like its Nurburgring, I open Twitter to see a tweet by Earl of Frunkpuppy that inspires this piece. In his tweet, below, Earl shared an image of four Tesla-related headlines over the years. Looking over the
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Journalists watch the screen as Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman welcomes the Emir of Qatar, Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani, ahead of the 41st Gulf Cooperation Council summit in the city of Al-Ula in Saudi Arabia on Jan. 5, 2021. Fayez Nureldine | AFP | Getty Images Saudi Arabia has reinstated diplomatic relations with Qatar,
7:56 PM ET The nearly three-decade drought of wide receivers failing to win the Heisman Trophy ended when Alabama senior DeVonta Smith was presented the award during a virtual ceremony on Tuesday night. Smith is the third player from Alabama to claim college football’s most prestigious award and the first receiver to win it since
January 5th, 2021 by U.S. Department of Energy Happy New Year! The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Wind Energy Technologies Office (WETO) provides global leadership in fundamental wind energy science research, development, and validation activities that enable low-cost wind energy. The office pursues opportunities across all U.S. wind sectors — land-based utility-scale wind, offshore wind,
U.S. President Donald Trump listens to Microsoft President Brad Smith, left, speak during a roundtable discussion with industry executives on reopening the country, in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington on May 29, 2020. Mandel Ngan | AFP | Getty Images A handful of Microsoft employees spoke out against the software
The latest addition to Britain’s array of 24-hour news channels is to begin recruiting more than 100 journalists after completing a £60m fundraising that it claims was significantly oversubscribed. GB News, which aims to launch later this year, said on Wednesday that Sir Paul Marshall, a prominent hedge fund manager, and Legatum, a Dubai-based investment
Olympic athletes should be given priority access to coronavirus vaccines to save the Tokyo Games from cancellation, according to a prominent International Olympic Committee (IOC) member. Sky News understands conversations are underway between government and the British Olympic Association (BOA) about securing athletes a COVID-19 vaccination by July, when the delayed Tokyo Olympics are due
If the election fever was a little low-key at the Dunbar Neighbourhood Center polling station in Atlanta, the anticipation about what it might mean was palpable. The steady flow of voters in the winter sunshine were the players in a drama that could signal a major shift in American politics. If Democrats Jon Ossoff and
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