Almost a fortnight ago, this year’s GCSE results were released and saw the biggest ever year-on-year decline in the rate of students attaining top grades. The overall proportion of candidates achieving A* to C has declined from 69% to 66.9%. Of this, science and engineering subjects had the lowest rate of A* grades of all subjects […]
Last week the ONS announced that Poland has overtaken India as the most common foreign country of birth for UK residents. There were 831,000 Polish-born people residing in the UK in 2015, and in the same year Polish-born mothers registered 22,928 births. Approximately 3.2 million EU citizens live in the UK, all of whom have […]
The Australian government has recently made a U-turn to block Chinese investment in its largest energy grid. After courting bids from investors for 50.4% of shares in Ausgrid, Australian Treasurer Scott Morrison blocked the sale to Cheung Kong Infrastructure and the State Grid Corporation of China in August 2016. This was justified on the pretext […]
