Margaret Thatcher’s former Oxford college has backed down on a demand that all its students take unconscious bias training, after a free speech campaign group intervened.Somerville College had
Dame Fiona Caldicott tribute
A tribute to Dame Fiona Caldicott, the first National Data Guardian, whose work over many years leaves a lasting legacy for patients and service users.
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15 February 2021
It is with great sadness that we learned today of the death of Dame Fiona Caldicott.
As members of the team who supported Dame Fiona in her work as National Data Guardian for Health and Social Care (NDG), we are full of sorrow at losing our inspirational colleague. She led us with unswerving integrity, modesty and a commitment to doing her best for patients and service users. Her name is well known across our sector and beyond, but we had the added privilege of knowing her personally and holding dear the thoughtful, compassionate person behind the public profile.
Mary Somerville: the life of the Scottish scientist
November 30, 2020 at 11:16 am
Mary Somerville was a celebrated lady of science of her day. Her name lives on in the Oxford College named after her, there’s a crater on the Moon that bears her name and in 2017 her face featured on the Scottish £10 note. But who was Mary Somerville, and why is she so celebrated?
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Like many women within the history of science, her story is complicated. While their male peers were allowed to join and be educated within prestigious institutions, publish original work under their own name and be declared discoverer, inventor and theorist, women did not have those options.
Inside the world of the extraordinary man who ruled Number 10
He was the UK s top civil servant. Now Jeremy Heywood s widow has written a biography, serialised in The Telegraph over the next three days
30 January 2021 • 6:00am
‘You always need someone in government to deal with the mess in the middle’. Here, Heywood with Prime Minister David Cameron in 2011
Credit: Tom Stoddart
Jeremy Heywood was the most powerful man in Downing Street and Whitehall you have probably never heard of. Ending up as cabinet secretary, he worked extremely closely with four successive prime ministers – Tony Blair, Gordon Brown, David Cameron and Theresa May. All four paid glowing tributes at his memorial service. He died of lung cancer in 2018, aged 56, working almost to the last.