[ad_1] Up until now, schools that are rated inadequate have become sponsored academies,, external and are supported by another outstanding school or charity to improve. The new report cards will result in the government intervening more quickly to help struggling schools, Phillipson has said.New regional teams, with a budget of up to £100,000 per school, will help turn around "stuck" schools that have received back-to-back negative judgements from Ofsted.But those
[ad_1] Victoria GillScience correspondent, BBC NewsWWFKrill are just a few centimetres long fully grown, but are one of the most abundant animals on EarthScientists say subtle differences in the colour of seawater will enable them to count tiny - but critically important - Antarctic marine creatures, from Space.The target of the new research effort is Antarctic krill, which are just a couple of inches long and one of the most
[ad_1] Sean McManusTechnology ReporterGetty ImagesMany staff are said to be using unapproved AI at work"It's easier to get forgiveness than permission," says John, a software engineer at a financial services technology company. "Just get on with it. And if you get in trouble later, then clear it up."He's one of the many people who are using their own AI tools at work, without the permission of their IT division (which
[ad_1] Erica Donnelly, Jessica Tse, Jack LathamThe BBC spoke to six people - including Erica, Jessica and Jack - who have had their first cervical screening in the last six monthsPeople not knowing about options to make their cervical screening easier and more comfortable is "costing lives", a cancer charity warned last month.To find out what having the test is really like for first timers, the BBC spoke to six
[ad_1] BBCBillionaire businessman Jared Isaacman has a big vision for the future of humanity. He set off on his first mission to space in 2021 – a private journey he paid an estimated $200m (£160m) for – and announced that he wanted space travel to be for the masses, not only for the 600 who have experienced it to date – most of them professional astronauts employed by Nasa and
[ad_1] Dan RosneyBBC Business ReporterGetty ImagesElon Musk bought Twitter in 2022On March 21, 2006 the first ever tweet was posted by Twitter founder Jack Dorsey: "Just setting up my twttr". It was a simple introduction to a brand new platform.Backed by celebrities, it was different to other social media sites, like MySpace or Facebook, because you could interact with any user without them having to approve a request. Companies rushed
[ad_1] Alison FrancisSenior Science JournalistNASA/Goddard/University of ArizonaAsteroid Bennu is a 500m-wide pile of boulders, rocks and rubbleThe chemical building blocks of life have been found in the grainy dust of an asteroid called Bennu, an analysis reveals.Samples of the space rock, which were scooped up by a Nasa spacecraft and brought to Earth, contain a rich array of minerals and thousands of organic compounds.These include amino acids, which are the
[ad_1] Getty ImagesClimate change was a major factor behind the hot, dry weather that gave rise to the devastating LA fires, a scientific study has confirmed.It made those weather conditions about 35% more likely, according to World Weather Attribution - globally recognised for their studies linking extreme weather to climate change. The authors noted that the LA wildfire season is getting longer while the rains that normally put out the
[ad_1] How one company is trying to bring extinct animals like the dodo back to life [ad_2] Source link
[ad_1] Joe FayTechnology ReporterDaniel StenbergDaniel Stenberg first released his open source software in 1996Many of us have prepared instructions and critical information for our family in the event of our sudden demise. For Daniel Stenberg, that includes passwords for his Google and GitHub accounts.That’s because he’s the founder of curl, an open source internet transfer engine that has been downloaded billions of times and is used to transfer data to
