Looks like Government has caved in and will award all 'A' Level and GCSE pupils in England their teacher's grades...
apparently 10 of the most numerous dates of birth fall within the time the election was meant to be and the new date meaning thousands of 17 year olds will become 18 also means November must see a massive decline in condom sales New Zealand: Jacinda Ardern delays election over coronavirus fears 17 August 2020 Related Topics Coronavirus pandemic please log in to view this image Image copyright Reuters The prime minister of New Zealand, Jacinda Ardern, has postponed the country's general election by a month amid a spike in coronavirus cases. The vote was due to take place on 19 September but will now be held on 17 October instead. Ms Ardern said on Monday that the new date would allow parties "to plan around the range of circumstances we will be campaigning under". Earlier this week, the country's largest city went back into lockdown. "This decision gives all parties time over the next nine weeks to campaign and the Electoral Commission enough time to ensure an election can go ahead," Ms Ardern said, adding that she had "absolutely no intention" of allowing any further delays to the vote. The opposition National Party has argued the election should be delayed as restrictions on campaigning mean Ms Ardern had an unfair advantage. New Zealand extends Auckland lockdown for 12 days How New Zealand went 'hard and early' to beat Covid-19 Restrictions were imposed on Auckland on Wednesday after a number of new infections were identified in the city. Nine new coronavirus cases were confirmed on Monday, bringing the number of active cases linked to the Auckland cluster to 58. The outbreak was initially traced back to members of one family, although Ms Ardern later said that subsequent contact-tracing had found an earlier case involving a shop worker who became sick on 31 July. A health official who knew the family told the New Zealand Herald that the family were "shell-shocked" and "a little embarrassed that it had happened to them". The announcement that new cases had been discovered shocked the country, which had recorded no locally transmitted cases for more than three months. please log in to view this image Media captionEpidemiologist Prof Michael Baker: "New Zealand will get rid of the virus again" There are four "alert levels" in New Zealand, and Auckland has been on Level 3 since the new measures were announced. The rest of the country is on Level 2. Before the new cluster was identified, the government had lifted almost all of its lockdown restrictions, which were first imposed in March. New Zealand has reported more than 1,600 infections and 22 deaths since the pandemic began, according to figures from Johns Hopkins University. An early lockdown, tough border restrictions, effective health messaging and an aggressive test-and-trace programme had all been credited with virtually eliminating the virus in the country.
Has the post-Covid future already been decided? Few will have heard of the ‘Great Reset’, but it already has the backing of the Davos elite. Simon Marcus 17th August 2020 please log in to view this image Share Topics Politics Have you heard about the ‘Great Reset’? It’s the World Economic Forum’s new plan to reshape the post-Covid world. It’s top of the agenda at the next conference in Davos. You might not like some of the ideas in it, but they are presented as if they have been decided on your behalf. On the Great Reset website, you are blasted with visions of the apocalypse. Klaus Schwab, founder of the WEF, shares his views: ‘Covid-19 has shown us that our old systems are not fit anymore for the 21st century. It has laid bare the fundamental lack of social cohesion, fairness, inclusion and equality. Now is the historical moment, the time, not only to fight the virus but to shape the system for the post-corona era.’ Among those involved are Prince Charles, the secretary general of the United Nations, the managing director of the IMF, the CEOs of Mastercard, BP, the president of Microsoft, an official from the People’s Bank of China, and other global players. And recent UK attendees of Davos are a diverse group. Tony Blair, Sir David Attenborough and Prince William, for example. Greenpeace, the WWF and trade unions regularly cosy up with big oil, bankers and officials from some of the most brutal regimes on the planet. The Great Reset calls on a vast global network – thousands of world leaders from business, politics and civil society. They all share variants of the Davos worldview. And they are supported by a vast income from corporate membership fees. Davos also has a youth wing – the Global Shapers Community. Over 9,655 ‘shapers’ work from 428 ‘hubs’ in 148 different countries. So what’s not to like? The Great Reset wants to fight against bad things like racism, nationalism and climate change. And they want more good things like equality, inclusion and help for the poor. They like Big Tech, too. But it may not be as simple as this. We are talking about a vast and unaccountable combination of big business and big government. These elites have a homogenous worldview and it tends to get its way. Remember Brexit? They spent four years trying to overturn democracy in response. So with that in mind, their ideas are worth proper scrutiny. Those behind the Great Reset have decided that ‘capitalism and socialism will need to merge’. It’s hard to know what they mean by this, but you can assume it’s the worst of both worlds – think China, not Sweden. This is also where you meet their doublespeak. They acknowledge that privatisation has delivered poor public services. But the WEF is an organisation full of corporations growing fat on public-sector contracts. So their answer is more of the same, including rip-off public-private financing. You won’t find any articles on the WEF website about what elected governments could achieve with the state, even when it can borrow money at zero per cent interest. Thankfully, the Great Reset has thought of a good way of compensating us for crap public services: Universal Basic Income. We will pay for this by taxing wealth and passive income. But before you celebrate, that means the middle class will eventually be crushed by a double whammy of tax and inflation. The Great Reset is ‘woke’, too. Its advocates think it is ‘important to acknowledge “white privilege”’. The Great Reset also seems to have embraced Black Lives Matter. In the UK, white working-class boys have fallen behind black and Asian boys, and girls from all ethnic groups, in education at most academic levels. Evidence suggests they are failing massively in life outcomes, too. But the global elites who run Davos say they are privileged. The Great Reset also envisages the Covid crisis as permanent. The breathless updates on its website present a fire-and-brimstone vision of the pandemic. But it is just as true to say that the panicked and irrational responses to Covid have caused the current crisis. And even though the UK, for instance, experienced fewer excess deaths in July 2020 than in July 2019, the crisis is never allowed to end. It is not hard to see the threat to civil liberties that the perma-hysteria on Covid could lead to. The WEF has even floated the idea of ‘Health Passports’. But if the Covid crisis does burn itself out, then the Great Reset always has the climate crisis to fall back on. That won’t do much good for the jobs we have left. Essentially, the Great Reset wants action in every part of our lives. Its ‘Transformation Map’ seems to cover everything from the ‘fourth industrial revolution’ from information technology to sustainable business, justice, gender, blockchain, human rights, biodiversity and taxation. Everything in the Great Reset. Nothing outside The Great Reset. But it’s not just the ideology that’s problematic — there are moral and technical issues, too. First, the failed ‘systems’ of which they speak are the very ‘systems’ they own. Davos has played host to the world’s governments since 1971. So much that has gone wrong was on their watch. Of course, it hasn’t all been bad news. Since 1990, the number of people in poverty around the world, mostly in China and India, has fallen from 1.9 billion to around 0.7 billion. But this shift of wealth from West to East has played a large role in hollowing out the middle class in the USA and in Europe. This, along with mass immigration and the erosion of traditional values, has led to widespread disaffection. Hence Trump, Brexit, populism and so on. The Great Reset is a good example of not letting a crisis go to waste. But will those on the receiving end of these proposed transformations in every area of life get a say? That’s unlikely. The Great Reset doesn’t do democracy. In fact, you will be hard put even to find the word democracy anywhere on the website. Instead we are told, chillingly, that Covid is ‘changing the traditional context for decision-making’. Respect for democracy is a good proxy for the kind of people you are dealing with. People who don’t like democracy want power without accountability. Real leaders, like Mahatma Gandhi, lived the changes they believed in. The hallmark of the Davos elite is ‘do as I say, not as I do’. That means Klaus Schwab and his corporate chums won’t have to worry about equality or tax on their family home as they blow millions on hospitality in an exclusive Davos resort. Finally, the language of The Great Reset conforms to type. It is opaque, Blairite, shape-shifting nonsense. There are ‘historic crossroads’, ‘purpose-driven communities’, ‘collaborative solutions’, ‘key stakeholders’, ‘sustainability’ and ‘solidarity’. These words can have any meaning their users want, which can be changed as they please. The WEF clearly wants to change the world without asking us. It wants to do so on the back of Covid, which has been tragically mismanaged. And it has adopted all the thought-crushing, woke ideas of the day to use as handy off-the-shelf weapons which can fight against any objections. But what it fails to understand is that Brexit and the populist reactions against the globalist agenda have happened for a reason. Hundreds of millions of people had their lives damaged. They were unhappy with the way the world was being run. Even Conservative prime minister Boris Johnson boycotted Davos last December in recognition of this. The Great Reset is a worrying reminder that, even in spite of the ballot-box revolts, we are probably going to get a lot more of the Davos agenda. Simon Marcus is a writer, political consultant and former government adviser.
A new CNN poll has found that Joe Biden’s lead over President Trump has shrunk by 10 points after over two months of unrest and rioting in major American cities.
They finally kicked me out of the EU but they want me back spending my money again in the near future. I see that the Tories U-turned on the exam results? They should have asked that Kranky woman what to do?
The intention has always been to destroy around 90% of the current economy hence we are heading to an unknown future to the many. The 4IR does not need that many people anymore and depopulation has always been "their" ultimate goal. End of August will be the starting point for yet another fabricated lock-/shutdown which may vary from country to country but can be already seen right now. The Covid-19 stupid & climate boys & girls will soon find out that those changes have got nothing to do with some philanthropic stories "they" keep telling us. Next steps: - 2nd lockdown - food shortages - loss of jobs - federalizition of many jobs (that are still needed) - empoverishment of the masses - civil war - martial law - FEMA & other camps Still call me a lunatic ... you will soon find out.
will there be jobs for all these people please log in to view this image Harry Wilkinson @HarryWilkinsonn 7,557 A level students took French. 19,517 took media studies. This is a crisis. A further 62,544 took Psychology and a further 36,789 Sociology.
Loads of students will leave Uni with useless degrees that will make many unemployable and they will never repay their student loans. The University's are already saying they can't cope with the number of students due to social distancing. Whatever happens many will find there won't be jobs for them to apply for anyway whether they go to Uni or not as when furlough ends there will be job carnage...
But isn’t it the case that it’s all about getting the degree anyway, whatever the subject ? My eldest got his degree in Art and Design and is now a copper. The second one got his degree in Acting and is now a boxing coach and a nutritionist. I assumed that many get jobs using the bit of paper to get into jobs that have no connection at all to that bit of paper...
I think it depends on the individual's expectations and self-motivation. My grandson was at college aiming to get a C&G in carpentry, in his first summer break he got a temp job packing fruit and veg in New Covent Garden Market and impressed the owner so much he was offered a supervisor job full time, he quit college and since has gone on to become a section manager on £33k a year at 21 years old. Two of his mates who qualified from college are unemployed. The same happened to a friend's daughter who went to Uni studying PPE, over £30k student loan, a decent pass but can't get a job saying there are too many chasing too few positions. I fear this will be the new normal...
I think that common sense is gradually dawning on a lot of students and parents that slavishly following a degree route is not automatically the right option. The Blair obsession with degrees has been moderated over the last few years with employers increasingly offering jobs that combine studying for professional exams with real work experience I've personally recruited a number of school leavers into those sorts of roles, or into their next steps on the career ladder. And these were individuals who could easily have taken a university route given their A level results University / higher education isn't for everyone, even those that are academically gifted
i think its because nowadays unless it's a specialised degree (like medicine for doctors) then degrees are just a piece of paper in my opinion where you would choose a person who has one over one who doesn't if both do not have any experience. However if theres someone who has had a job and has relevant experience over a person with a degree, i'm more inclined to choose the person who has actually done the role. Likewise as someone has said earlier, there are so many university students looking for jobs nowadays compared to the amount of new roles out there, it's going to be a challenge beating them out
If I was an intelligent and ambitious 18 year old prepared to put in hours of hard work then, with the exception of vocation degrees like medicine and law, and maybe sciences for pharma etc, I would choose a job in industry where I could work my way in and get myself known. Of course, it has to be the right industry. Airlines, arts, hospitality and retail are best avoided at present.
