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on August 13, 2025
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A new report from the Commons Education Select Committee, published on Thursday, said the government must also assess the success of the National Tutoring Programme (NTP) under Randstad, and that if the company cannot deliver the scheme effectively it must be 'booted out'.
If those kinds of meticulously crafted layers are what you're after in your storytelling, settle in. A sci-fi noir, Dark folds time travel, conspiracies and estranged families into a generation-spanning story kicked off by a child's disappearance. Dark (2017-2020)
Germany's answer to Stranger Things deliberately takes its time before stepping into completely compelling and original places. All three seasons of Dark's meditative look at time travel and its effect on human nature are waiting to hit you at full force.
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"So far we have to intensify our efforts in order to bridge or to try to bridge the remaining gaps, for example fisheries, level playing field and governance," he told reporters before the start of a summit of EU leaders.
BRUSSELS, Oct 15 (Reuters) - The European Union and Britain need to intensify efforts to close gaps on negotiations to forge a post-Brexit trade deal and the bloc needs to have a clear plan in the case of a failure of talks, Lithuania President Gitanas Nauseda said on Thursday.
Mr Halfon said catch-up funding is 'not reaching the most disadvantaged children', while 'there are significant regional disparities and there is a real risk of failure through Randstad as the delivery partner'.
Initially, Kovacs' story involves solving a murder, before he goes on a quest to unravel what happened to his own lost love. This sees investigator and ex-soldier Takeshi Kovacs transported into the body of Joel Kinnaman in season 1 and Anthony Mackie in season 2. Altered Carbon can be clunky at times, but its visual candy and entertainment value hoist you through the exposition and heavy-handed social commentary. Altered Carbon (2018-2020)
Altered Carbon is set in a cyberpunk world where human consciousnesses can be transferred into different bodies.
Betrayal, government lies and personal secrets send this addictive space journey into a tailspin. What else do you need to know? Their target: a sample of an unknown substance for unclear purposes. The Silent Sea (2021—)
Yeah, Gong Yoo from Squid Game's in this. This South Korean sci-fi mystery follows a crew of astronauts on a mission to an abandoned research facility on the moon.
The 'complex bureaucratic system' for applying for funds may have burdened teachers with more work and hampered schools' ability to get support for their pupils as quickly as possible, the committee said.
Randstad said it would provide MPs with this information, but the committee's report said it has not received any further statistics or data from the company or from the Department for Education, while Randstad has since removed the requirement of reaching 65% of the poorest pupils through the programme.
On average, good for the study the survey found that just 50% of pupils arrived in Reception being 'school ready' while over a third of teachers - 34% - said that their pupils were not ready to start school, an increase on the proportion who reported this in 2020 of 23%.
Ben Wallace remains Defence Secretary after backing her campaign and Brandon Lewis is made Justice Secretary, while Boris Johnson loyalist Jacob Rees Mogg is business secretary. Kemi Badenoch's loyalty was also rewarded as she is named International Trade Secretary, while Kit Malthouse becomes Education Secretary.
They will join other heavy hitters, including Rishi himself, Sajid Javid and Michael Gove, representing a formidable and influential group who could cause trouble for Ms Truss in the coming weeks and months.
Dominic Raab was among the first to reveal his fate as he tweeted that he had been evicted from his roles as justice secretary and Deputy PM - with Ms Truss's 'best friend' Therese Coffey confirmed as taking the latter title along with the health brief.
Tuition partners have complained that Randstad - the company contracted to run the tuition partners and academic mentors pillars of the programme - has an online booking platform that is bureaucratic and 'dysfunctional' to use.
Not only do these windows into vastly different lives teach tolerance, but the "sensates" can also tap each other's skills when facing a sinister organization hunting them down. If you jibe with Sense8's diverse characters, you'll fall head over heels for this earnest and sensual sci-fi drama. Sense8 (2015-2018)
From the creators of The Matrix comes another story that plays with reality. Sense8 follows eight strangers from across the world who discover they're mentally and emotionally linked.