ATL leader Mary Bousted tells conference forced academisation will not boost educational standards Mary Bousted said academisation was an attempt to dismantle national pay scales. Photograph: PR Nicky Morgan’s plans to force all schools in England to become academies is an attempt to turn education into a business and destroy the public service ethos of teachers, according to the head Read More

Metal foam tough enough to turn an armour-piercing bullet into dust could be used to create the next generation of body and vehicle protection. A team at North Carolina State University discovered that an inch-thick layer of composite metal foams (CMFs) can stop a bullet. The indentation on the back of the foam is just 8mm – significantly less than Read More

David Cameron has finally admitted he benefited from a Panama-based offshore trust set up by his late father. Analysis What David Cameron did and didn’t say about his father’s offshore trust The prime minister chose his response to reporter’s question about Blairmore Holdings very carefully – and he will probably get away with it Read more After three days of Read More

India is likely to clock GDP growth of 7.4 per cent in the current fiscal and consumption is likely to be the main driver of growth in the foreseeable future, says an HSBC report. According to the global financial services firm, investment cycle revival is not expected to happen quickly or easily and the country is likely to see a Read More

The increase will come as good news to the Ministry of Education which last year revamped its campaign to attract international students after enrolments fell in three of the past five years. According to the Ministry of Justice statistics, the number of foreign students studying in Korea reached 105,193. The majority of students, 76,949, were studying on a D-2 (higher Read More

“Abnormal cells not a sure sign of baby defects,” reports The Telegraph following the publication of a study on the development of healthy embryos. Embryos containing cells with an abnormal number of chromosomes can still develop into healthy babies, according to researchers from the University of Cambridge. Embryo cells with too many or too few chromosomes can give rise to Read More

Specific information about the number of EU migrants paying tax and claiming benefits in the UK will be published in the run-up to June’s EU referendum. The move to release data on the number of National Insurance numbers actively used by EU citizens follows pressure from Eurosceptic MPs and economists. They have long argued official figures on inward migration from Read More

Why didn’t you cover AT&T U-verse or Verizon Fios in last weekend’s column about renting or buying cable modems? A. Neither of those fiber-optic services have anything to do with cable — they’re both run by companies that began life as telephone firms, and both were built on top of the phone infrastructure, not cable operators’ separate networks. But after Read More

The Telecom Ministry is expected to approach the Cabinet for its nod to reduce spectrum usage charges from existing 5 per cent to 3 per cent of the revenue earned by companies from telecom services. The Telecom Commission has agreed to charge SUC (spectrum usage charges) at 3 per cent level of adjusted gross revenue on spectrum that will be Read More

Himmelberg joined as CEO in 2013 and Thebing, who sold his German-based agency, Kolumbus Sprachreisen towards the end of 2015, joined CEL as marketing director at the start of the year. The school group was acquired from Matthias Müller, the previous owner from Switzerland, for an undisclosed amount. “Compared to the agency market in Germany, we have less competition” Established over 30 years ago Read More