End to junior doctor strikes in sight as union recommends members accept government offer The first meaningful pay rise for years marks reset in relationship and shared mission to fix broken NHS From September junior doctors will be referred to as ‘Resident Doctors’ to reflect expertise The government and the British Medical Association (BMA) have reached an agreement to put a new pay offer for junior doctors to members. The BMA will recommend members accept the offer which could bring an end to 15 months of devastating strike action. If accepted, this offer will deliver an additional pay rise…
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Protest encampments have sprung up at university campuses around the world in recent months, calling for an end to the Israeli occupation of Palestine and atrocities committed in Gaza. The protests have been sparked by the events following the attack on October 7th, 2023, which led to a severe military response from Israel. This response has been described by many human rights experts and organisations, such as the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967, as genocidal due to the extensive civilian casualties and humanitarian crisis it has caused in Gaza.…
In 1872 Leland Stanford, the founder of California’s Stanford University, hired an eccentric inventor named Eadweard Muybridge to help resolve a supposed (but undocumented) bet: did a trotting horse’s feet leave the ground with all four feet or not? Muybridge was a skilled photographer and managed to get blurry snapshots of an “airborne” horse in mid-trot – an example of how the naked eye alone can’t capture fast, subtle motions. He went on, alongside others, to establish what became cinematography. He also continued to capture images of many animals moving, trying to catch them airborne. Of another large animal, the…
Tony Burke is flying to Indonesia, within hours of being sworn into the home affairs portfolio, for talks on security issues including countering terrorism and people smuggling. Burke said in a statement late Monday he would attend the tenth Indonesia-Australia Ministerial Council on Law and Security. He would also co-chair the fifth Sub-Regional Meeting on Counter Terrorism and Transnational Security in Bali. He will meet with Indonesia’s Coordinating Minister for Political, Legal and Security Affairs Hadi Tjahjanto. “Indonesia is one of our most important bilateral partners, including on civil maritime security, people smuggling and countering violent extremism,” Burke said. The…
Team Ireland will be in action across nine sports today as the third day of competition gets underway in Paris. The Men’s Hockey team get day three of Paris 2024 underway when they play Australia in their second pool game. In Equestrian, the Eventing team of Susie Berry and Austin O’Connor with Aoife Clarke now replacing Sarah Ennis, will contest the third and final element of their competition when they go in the show jumping at the Palace of Versailles. They lie eighth overall in the team event. O’Connor lies in 14th place, individually, on his dressage score of 31.7…
57% of adults under 50 who say they’re unlikely to ever have kids say a major reason is they just don’t want to; 31% of those ages 50 and older without kids cite this as a reason they never had them Pew Research Center conducted this study to better understand the experiences of two groups of U.S. adults who don’t have children: those ages 50 and older, and those younger than 50 who say they are unlikely to ever have children. It explores their reasons for not having children or being unlikely to do so, the perceived pros and cons…
WASHINGTON – The U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement’s Interagency Labor Committee for Monitoring and Enforcement today requested the Mexican government conduct a review at Impro Industries, a Chinese-owned parts manufacturer in San Luis Potosí, based on its finding that workers’ rights were denied at the facility.The Secretary of Labor and U.S. Trade Representative co-chair the Interagency Labor Committee.The request follows a June 24, 2024, petition filed by La Liga Sindical Obrera Mexicana, the Mexican union, and the International Lawyers Assisting Workers Network.Filed under the USMCA’s Rapid Response Labor Mechanism, the petition alleges the company dismissed an LSOM delegate for organizing workers and that irregularities existed in…
“As of now, we have only nine chairwomen out of 24, which is only 37.5 percent of the total,” Spanish S&D MEP Lina Gálvez, the gender equality committee’s newly elected chair, said in emailed comments. “Big gender disparities in the composition of the European Parliament’s bodies can lead to blind spots,” said Austrian MEP Evelyn Regner. | EP In the previous Parliament, committees covering constitutional affairs, foreign affairs, budgets, tax and security were dominated by men, leading Robert Biedroń, the former chair of the women’s rights committee, to conclude that “where there is money and power you have male domination.”…
Storm-chasing for science can be exciting and stressful – we know, because we do it. It has also been essential for developing today’s understanding of how tornadoes form and how they behave. In 1996, the movie “Twister” with Helen Hunt brought storm-chasing scientists into the public imagination and inspired a generation of atmospheric scientists. With the new “Twisters” movie hitting theaters, we’ve been getting questions about storm-chasing – or storm intercepts, as we call them. Here are some answers about what scientists who do this kind of fieldwork are really up to when they race off after storms. Scientists with…
“Management can be taught,” says Nazia Lodhi, (pictured), a senior policy advisor for the Armed Forces Pensions Schemes at the Ministry of Defense (MoD). The team leader and chair of the MoD Civilian Muslim Network was among the first civil servants to do the Management: Practitioner Programme which was launched in 2023. Her experiences on it convinced her that anyone can learn to be a better manager and that good management is most definitely a skill that can be taught. Practical sessions “The programme was a great learning curve,” she said. “Learning was not just from books and theories but…