“Teachers to get sweeping powers to decide exam results in England”

Feb 26, 2021 | In the news

An independent (financial adviser’s) view

I’m no expert. I used to be a school governor, so that proves it. But I have been a student and am the parent of one. I was good at exams; but we’ve all known bright people, good at everything all year in class, who couldn’t hack them. Equally, there were plenty of teachers by whom I would not have wanted to be assessed. Terrifying either way; and then a few years after you leave school, you realise that no one in the real world has shown the least interest in, nor checked, your exam grades anyway…

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“Rachel Reeves may be forced to raise taxes”

“Rachel Reeves may be forced to raise taxes”

Why did she/they (in the old sense) think that tinkering around with IHT and CGT would be enough to sort out the NHS; and the potholes; and…and the list goes on. My guess is  that they asked the Treasury for a list of anything not involving income tax that they could get away with lightly, although they should already have learned from the winter fuel stuff that all publicity is not good publicity.