EIGHT primary schools and one secondary school will have fewer classes from September next year because there are too many places across Brighton and Hove.
Brighton and Hove City Council predicted that there would be 325 spare places this September, rising to 744 if nothing was done. This could give rise to the risk of the Government stepping in and closing a school. The council based its estimate on the number of children born in Brighton and Hove, members of the council’s Children, Young People and Skills Committee were told on Monday afternoon. The council’s head of schools organisation Richard Barker said that action was needed in areas where there were fewer children although he said that the process was “not an exact science”.
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The Covid-19 alert level will be raised to five, the highest level, Government sources said.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson will address the nation in a televised address tonight outlining the steps to tackle the rise in coronavirus cases.
A Downing Street spokesperson said Parliament is set to be recalled to sit on Wednesday.
The announcement comes after Nicola Sturgeon announced Scotland will be placed in lockdown for January with a legal requirement to stay at home.
“One in 10 people in the Ipswich region work in manufacturing,” Mr Neumann said.
“I want to make sure our apprentices are highly skilled, with great classroom training at TAFE and on-the-job training and mentoring on great worksites.” KSB apprentices with Federal Member for Blair Shayne Neumann and Shadow Minister for Education and Training Tanya Plibersek.
Mr Neumann and Shadow Minister for Education and Training Tanya Plibersek visited KSB Australia’s Bundamba workshop and training facility, where the company tests, services and repairs its pumps and valves.
“KSB built this facility in Bundamba because they recognised the importance of the region in providing skilled workers,” Mr Neumann said.
Scotland s universities and colleges have called for tens of millions of pounds in additional funding as they battle to plug yawning deficits and what has been branded an “existential crisis” for the sector. Financial pressures are so acute that six universities now anticipate having less than two months of cash reserves by the end of July next year. Colleges are also facing severe liquidity problems, with projections that a third of institutions north of the Border will be operating with less than five days’ cash by the close of 2020-21. According to estimates from the Scottish Funding Council (SFC), universities are on course to record an underlying operating deficit of £176.1 million in 2020-21 as public spending on teaching and research activity fails to keep up with costs.
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