Calls for GCSE and A-level grades to be set regionally this summer because of differing Covid levels

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There have been more than 1,000 outbreaks of coronavirus in educational settings since schools reopened in September, the Government’s scientific advisers have suggested. An outbreak or cluster is classed by Public Health England (PHE) as two or more positive cases of Covid-19 related to one setting.  A document released by the Scientific Advisory Group for … Read more

Calls for GCSE and A-level grades to be set regionally this summer because of differing Covid levels

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There have been more than 1,000 outbreaks of coronavirus in educational settings since schools reopened in September, the Government’s scientific advisers have suggested. An outbreak or cluster is classed by Public Health England (PHE) as two or more positive cases of Covid-19 related to one setting.  A document released by the Scientific Advisory Group for … Read more

Plan unveiled to build a £5BILLION conservation park in South Africa

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Plan unveiled ‘to build a crowd-funded £5billion conservation park’ in South Africa that ‘will aim to preserve EVERY species of animal on the planet’ Is this just pie-in-the-sky? A source on the project told MailOnline Travel that it’s serious The park, it’s hoped, will cover 100 square kilometres in KwaZulu Natal province  The trials and … Read more

Michaela Coel admits she no longer looks at what trolls think of her

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Michaela Coel has revealed she no longer looks at what trolls think of her or her looks as some comments ‘hurt [her] quite a lot’ in the past. The I May Destroy You star, 32, spoke in WSJ. Magazine‘s November Innovator issue about her past experience with what people said about her appearance online, as … Read more

Hays Travel founder collapses and dies at head office

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Founder of Hays Travel dies at 71 after collapsing at work as he is remembered for taking on 2,000 Thomas Cook staff who lost their jobs last year John Hays who founded firm in 1980 fell ill at firm’s Sunderland head office today He leaves behind wife Irene Hays who also co-owns the firm of … Read more

Obama says Trump offered to ‘plug’ Deepwater Horizon oil leak – and build a White House ballroom

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Former President Barack Obama recalled some of his early interactions with now President Donald Trump, before Trump started floating the so-called ‘birther’ conspiracy theory about Obama in the run-up to the 2012 election.  In his new book, ‘A Promised Land,’ Obama writes that during the 2010 Deepwater Horizon crisis, Trump called up White House adviser … Read more

Facebook puts AI in charge of its moderation queue to better prioritize ‘harmful’ content

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Facebook is putting machine learning to work to help speed up and prioritize content moderation. Previously, human reviewers dealt with most flagged posts chronologically, with AI relegated to spam and other low-priority jobs. Now, the social media giant’s AI systems are prioritizing possibly objectionable content by virality and threat level. Messages, photos and videos relating … Read more