6 d. ago Free breakfast clubs to open at 750 schools as teachers voice funding fears

Thousands of parents will be able to access half an hour of morning childcare on Tuesday.

Society

8 d. ago Madeleine McCann probe budget is CUT: Met Police team tasked with finding missing toddler has £84,000 slashed from investigation

They have been granted a further £108,000 to carry on the search for her - a drop of £84,000 on the amount awarded last year, MailOnline has learned.

Economics

1 week ago Harvard stands to lose $2.2 billion in federal funding. Researchers fear science will suffer

In a high-stakes standoff, President Donald Trump’s administration says it will freeze $2.2 billion in federal research grants for Harvard University, which is pushing back on demands for changes to campus policy

Economics

2 w. ago Fund managers quietly fear Trump doesn’t have a tariff plan and that he ‘might be insane’

Some fund managers concerned ‘that the White House is not acting rationally, but rather on ideology. And some even fear that this may not even be ideology’

Politics

2 w. ago ‘Some of these diseases are in the Bible’: despair as cuts halt progress on age

They are debilitating afflictions that people don’t know about, don’t understand and struggle to pronounce. Now health workers fear they will surge in Africa as USAID-funded drug distribution programmes are cutSince 2013, for around two weeks each year, Sulaiman Tarawallie has pulled on his community drug distributor (CDD) uniform and gone from household to household in his remote farming community to hand out medication to fight river blindness and lymphatic filariasis. Once he has completed the rounds of his village, he heads further out to take the drugs to even more remote homes – keeping the diseases that had plagued generations at bay with a handful of pills.But this year, Tarawallie, who works as a community health worker and primary school teacher in Sierra Leone’s northern Bombali district, will not be making his annual trip. Continue reading...

Politics

2 w. ago Edinburgh University staff threaten strike action amid job loss fears due to funding crisis

Union says institution has refused to rule out compulsory redundancies as it plans to slash £140m from its budget

Events

3 w. ago After layoffs and funding problems, Head Start leaders fear what comes next

President Donald Trump's administration on Tuesday laid off scores of Health and Human Services employees, including many who ran the Head Start early education program

Politics

3 w. ago Met Police to cut 1,700 officers and staff amid shock funding fears

London mayor Sir Sadiq Khan confirms Royal Parks unit will be disbanded - despite fierce opposition from councils and victims

Events

3 w. ago Met Police to cut 1,700 police and staff amid shock funding fears

London mayor Sir Sadiq Khan confirms Royal Parks unit will be disbanded - despite fierce opposition from councils and victims

Events

3 w. ago Investors flock to gold funds as fears over Trump tariffs mount

Biggest inflow since onset of pandemic pushes bullion to fresh highs as traders hunt for haven assets

Economics

3 w. ago ‘The physics community has never split like this’: row erupts over plans for new Large Hadron Collider

Ambitious project could soak up funding for subatomic physics for decades, say opponentsScientists are refining plans to build the world’s biggest machine at a site beneath the Swiss-French border. More than $30bn (£23bn) would be spent drilling a 91km circular tunnel in which subatomic particles would be accelerated to near light speeds and smashed into each other. From the resulting nuclear debris, scientists hope they will then find clues that would help them understand the detailed makeup of the universe.It is an extraordinarily ambitious project. However, it is also a controversial one – for many scientists fear the machine, the Future Circular Collider (FCC), could soak up funding for subatomic physics for decades and leave promising new research avenues starved of resources. Continue reading...

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