Repression, violation of human rights and legislation preventing freedom of expression have been the emblem of the regime of Vladimir Putin, Amnesty International has said in a new report.
David Miliband has stepped down as MP for South Shields to work for an international aid charity, ending a twenty year career in politics.
With North Korea in mind, Left Foot Forward has taken a look around the world at who's in and who's out of the WMD club.
State school students are less likely to apply and 20 per cent less likely to be accepted into Britain’s leading Universities than their private school counterparts, according to a new study by Durham University.
In a letter to The Independent and The Daily Telegraph this week, a hundred education academics criticised Michael Gove’s controversial new curriculum proposals as an “endless list of spelling, facts and rules” that will prove “miserable for children". Left Foot Forward has looked at some of the changes to the school curriculum proposed by Michael Gove and the criticism they’ve received.
A majority of Universities in the Russell Group, which is considered to encompass the best Universities in the country, have accepted fewer students from state schools in the most recent year on record than they did in 2010 – 2011.