Schools ‘gaming’ system to boost league table position are failing children, warns Ofsted head
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Mauro Ferrari joins organisation at a tricky time and says his focus is on identifying ‘breakthrough people’At the age of 43, Mauro Ferrari astonished his peers by giving up his career as a highly regarded professor of engineering at the University of California in Berkeley to enrol at medical school.He had been driven to find a cure for the cancer that had killed his wife at the age of 32, leaving him alone with three traumatised children. “I feel comfortable talking about this now – I didn’t for years,” he says. “Everyone has got a wound that pushes them to do better.” Continue reading…
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Publish date : 2020-01-21 10:42:15
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A portrait that has puzzled art experts for decades is finally declared a real Van Gogh.
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Pictures from Dover harbour in Kent show border officials processing migrants as trafficking gangs continue so-called ‘surge tactics’, in a bid to overwhelm UK authorities.
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Suzanne Shipley, 34, was devastated after being diagnosed with kidney failure – and doctors say they can do nothing to help
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The Queen’s grandson has appeared in a milk advert in China, fuelling a discussion about how Prince Harry and Meghan might make their money as they step away from royal duties.
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The flu-like condition is similar to the SARS virus that killed 774 people in the early 2000s across dozens of countries, mostly in Asia
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Publish date : 2020-01-21 09:23:04
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Semen would be extracted post mortem either surgically or via electric shocks to the prostate
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Author : Jemma Crew
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Donald Trump impeachment trial: US Senate set to hear opening arguments
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Rolling coverage of the day’s political developments as they happen 9.31am GMT The UK will leave the EU at the end of next week and this morning Sajid Javid, the chancellor, is attending his last Ecofin, the regular meeting for EU finance ministers, as a member. In a clip for broadcasters on his way, he was asked about the row generated by his interview with the Financial Times (paywall) at the weekend in which he insisted that that the UK would not stay aligned to EU rules after Brexit. He made two main points.We have been very clear now for many months, and of course in our recent election as well, as we leave the EU we will not be in the single market, we will not be in the customs union, and we will not be rule takers. At the same time, of course, we want a deep, comprehensive free trade agreement, and that’s what we are working on.No, not at all. We look forward with confidence as we strike that new free trade agreement with our European friends, as we strike new free trade agreements across the world, it will be a very important time for British business. And I can see a British economy that continues to go from strength to [email protected] asks @sajidjavid if he is prepared to sacrifice some UK manufacturers over #brexit: “Not at all…I can see a British economy which continues to go from strength to strength”, he replies pic.twitter.com/3VScFAQqHj Continue reading…
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Maria Sharapova is not sure if she will be at the Australian Open next year and is set to drop out of the world’s top 350.
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Footage shows 93-year-old Betty Pilbeam, of Brighton, overcome with emotion thanks to the thoughtful gift, which shows her husband Frank, who died in 1969, on their wedding day.
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The victim of the assault, who was 17 at the time of the 1978 attack, has urgently called on two witnesses to name her attackers. The duo’s e-fits have been released by police
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Thirteen hours after taking off from London, the Duke of Sussex bounced down the steps of a small passenger plane and into his new life in Canada.
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Boris Johnson was accused of politicising the death of Jack Merritt after he was murdered by convicted terrorist Usman Khan on London Bridge
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Publish date : 2020-01-21 07:59:56
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