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Ministers face calls to explain how £6bn Send funding hole will be paid for

Bridget Phillipson tells MPs that Send costs in England will not fall on core schools funding but on government budget Ministers are to reduce the rising cost of funding special educational needs provision through their overhaul of the system, as they faced calls to explain how a £6bn funding hole would be paid for. The government is under pressure to clarify how it will pay for special educational needs and disabilities (Send) spending in England, which is rapidly increasing, after Rachel Reeves said in the budget that she would take over full responsibility for the costs from local councils…

China

Italy’s Leonardo unveils ‘Michelangelo Dome’ air defence system

Italy’s defence and aerospace group Leonardo on Thursday presented plans for a new multilayered air defence system, as European countries step up military capabilities to bolster defences against Russia and other threats. The “Michelangelo Dome” is an integrated defence system that uses artificial intelligence to neutralise a range of threats, from hypersonic weapons to drone swarms and naval attacks, in a bid to strengthen its role in European multi-domain security. Named for the Renaissance… Source link

Entertainment Hollywood & Global

Duffer Brothers And Cast Tease What To Look Forward To For ‘Stranger Things’ Season 5 Volume 2 And Finale

SPOILER ALERT: This piece contains major spoilers for the first four episodes of Stranger Things Season 5, aka the entirety of Volume 1. It’s the beginning of the end for Netflix’s Stranger Things, with the first of four episodes of the fifth and final season now streaming. Vecna (Jamie Campbell Bower) still aims to bring […] Source link

World

Wes Streeting calls BMA ‘impossible’ and says they made ‘misleading’ claims

Health secretary responds to speech given by GP committee leader accusing Labour of ‘gaslighting’ behaviour Wes Streeting has accused the British Medical Association (BMA) of being “impossible” and issuing “misleading” information in an escalation of tensions with the doctors union. In an unusual move, the health secretary wrote on Thursday to England’s 50,000 GPs to convey his frustration with the BMA over recent changes that from last month made it easier for patients to contact them online between 8am and 6.30pm Monday to Friday. Continue reading… Source link

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Peru’s ousted ‘president of the poor’ gets 11-year sentence for rebellion

Pedro Castillo was sentenced by the supreme court for trying to disband Congress and rule by decree in 2022 Peru’s supreme court on Thursday sentenced the former leftwing president Pedro Castillo to 11 years, five months and 15 days in prison for trying to disband Congress and rule by decree in December 2022. Labelled Peru’s first poor president, the former rural schoolteacher, who had never held elected office before winning the presidency, was impeached by Congress and jailed on the same day after his attempted power grab. Continue reading… Source link

Space

Stevan Spremo Talks About Boxing Up Bacteria for Space Travel

Transcript Host (Matthew Buffington): Welcome to the NISV podcast, this is episode 66. And sitting with me again I have Abby. Abby, tell us about our guest today. Abby Tabor:Hey, Matt. Today we’re talking with Stevan Spremo. He works in the Chief Engineers office here at Ames, and basically his job is to guide other engineers through the development of hardware that’s going to go into space, and carry life sciences missions, for example. So Stevan started as an electrical engineering student at San Jose State [University], but he knew he wanted to work with medical technologies or life…

Entertainment India

Battle Of Galwan Pre-Release Business: Salman Khan’s Epic Locks A Massive 300 Crore+ Deal?

Battle Of Galwan Pre-Release Business: Salman Khan Starrer Secures A Bumper Deal With Jio Studios [Reports] (Photo Credit – Instagram) After back-to-back debacles, Salman Khan is looking for a big comeback, and for that, he has decided to go with Apoorva Lakhia’s next. Yes, with Apurva, he’s currently working on Battle Of Galwan, and it is scheduled to release in the first half of 2026. It’s a magnum opus mounted on a very big scale, and Salman will be seen playing the role of an army veteran in it. Since Salman has opted for the role of an army…