Day: August 2, 2024

Exodus of new mums fuels teacher shortage in schools

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Gemma Laister/BBC Cara Carey left teaching after finding it incompatible with raising a family Women in their 30s are, numerically, the biggest single group leaving teaching, according to new analysis seen exclusively by the BBC. More than 9,000 of them left teaching in England 2022-23, compared with just over 3,400 men of a similar age. … Read more

Trust between rider and horse on display at the Paris Olympics shows the best of a sport that has been rocked by scandals | Calla Wahlquist

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About five minutes into the eight-minute cross-country course, the oldest horse ever to compete at the Olympics, the 21-year-old Forever Young Wundermaske, popped his rider out of the saddle going into the second water obstacle and loped off. Watching at home from my house in Australia, I laughed when a soggy Ronald Zabala-Goetschel, the Ecuadorian … Read more

The junior doctors’ strikes may be over. But is trouble ahead?

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BBC It had been the NHS’s longest-running and bitterest pay dispute – responsible for hundreds of thousands of cancelled operations and appointments. And then, suddenly, word came on Monday that the British Medical Association was recommending that its 50,000 junior doctor members accept a fresh offer from the new government. It sounded almost too good … Read more

Fantasmas review – this wildly creative comedy is a beacon of hope for TV’s future | Television

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I adored Fantasmas and can say with a similar level of confidence that it will absolutely not be for everyone. A good test might be to consider your tolerance for anthropomorphic robots, toys and animals. If the existence of an emotional, soap-esque storyline about a queer nightclub for hamsters and the impact of gentrification sounds … Read more