Almost 9,000 foreign nurses a year are leaving the UK to work abroad, amid a sudden surge in nurses quitting the already understaffed NHS for better-paid jobs elsewhere. The rise in nurses originally from outside the EU moving to take up new posts abroad has prompted concerns that Britain is increasingly becoming “a staging post”… Continue reading Thousands of foreign nurses a year leave UK to work abroad | Nursing
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EMEA security spend will have another boom year in 2024
Security services and technology have again maintained the number one priority for IT spending across the EMEA region, according to this year’s Technology spending intentions research from TechTarget and ESG, to the extent that it’s also leading investment in areas beyond merely cyber, including networking, infrastructure, applications (DevSecOps) and generative artificial intelligence (GenAI). With 48%… Continue reading EMEA security spend will have another boom year in 2024
Life after a traumatic brain injury: ‘It took me over a year to find out I had an accident’ | Australian books
Caroline Laner Breure was a perfectionist growing up. She was restless and hungry, with an independent spirit. It was this drive that led her to leave her home country Brazil after graduating university and move to Sydney. She pursued her dream of living in Bondi, and set about travelling the world with her boyfriend. “I… Continue reading Life after a traumatic brain injury: ‘It took me over a year to find out I had an accident’ | Australian books
Nearly 7,000 ambulance workers in England left in past year, figures show | Emergency services
Ambulance services in England have experienced a mass exodus of staff in the past year with nearly 7,000 leaving their jobs, figures have revealed. The number of emergency service crew leavers has risen sharply compared with 2019 levels, prompting concern for patient safety during the next NHS winter crisis. The government has been called on… Continue reading Nearly 7,000 ambulance workers in England left in past year, figures show | Emergency services
Black delivery driver loses FedEx job more than a year after he said white men attacked him
JACKSON, Miss. — A Black FedEx delivery driver who says two white men shot at and chased him in Mississippi in 2022 has now been fired from his job, he and his attorney said Monday. “I honestly feel disrespected,” the former driver, D’Monterrio Gibson, told The Associated Press shortly after he received an email from FedEx about… Continue reading Black delivery driver loses FedEx job more than a year after he said white men attacked him
‘Rust’ armorer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed’s trial date pushed back to next year
A new trial date has been set for Hannah Gutierrez-Reed, the armorer on the “Rust” movie set. Jason Bowles, an attorney for Gutierrez-Reed confirmed the news to NBC News on Monday that the trial had been pushed back to February 21, 2024 citing “scheduling issues for various witnesses.” The trial was originally slated to… Continue reading ‘Rust’ armorer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed’s trial date pushed back to next year
Cyber Explorers programme reaches 50,000 11-14 year olds in 18 months
The government-backed Cyber Explorers programme has reached 50,000 young people at 2,000 schools around the UK since its launch in February 2022, and ahead of the new school year, the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) is urging teachers across the country to sign up to access free resources to help secondary school-aged children build… Continue reading Cyber Explorers programme reaches 50,000 11-14 year olds in 18 months
Hot classrooms are impairing student learning and health amid record-hot year, teachers say
When classes started this week in Florida’s Polk County school district, fourth-grade teacher Emily Heath and her students returned to a sweltering classroom with faulty air conditioning and temperatures in the 80s. The heat was hard for Heath’s students to bear, she said. “They say, ‘It’s too hot in here. I can’t focus. I can’t… Continue reading Hot classrooms are impairing student learning and health amid record-hot year, teachers say
Biden’s 1 Year Anniversary Of The IRA
This article is part of HuffPost’s biweekly politics newsletter. Click here to subscribe. This week marked the first anniversary of the Inflation Reduction Act, President Joe Biden’s signature piece of legislation. His administration had big plans to celebrate the occasion ― and to promote the law’s accomplishments ― by dispatching officials for appearances across the… Continue reading Biden’s 1 Year Anniversary Of The IRA
China’s fertility rate hit a record low last year
HONG KONG — China’s fertility rate is estimated to have dropped to a record low of 1.09 in 2022, the National Business Daily said, a figure likely to rattle authorities as they try to boost the country’s declining number of new births. The state-backed Daily said Tuesday the figure from China’s Population and Development Research… Continue reading China’s fertility rate hit a record low last year