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Quarter of UK university physics departments at risk of closing, survey finds

Four out of five making staff cuts as physicists say findings are ‘great concern’ for UK’s leadership in important areas

The Guardian - UK

One in four university physics departments fear closure in next two years – poll

More than four in five physics department heads surveyed expected staff cuts in the next two years.

The Independent UK

Quarter of schools in England lack a physics teacher, analysis finds

Institute of Physics says ‘critical’ shortage means 700,000 pupils are deprived of a subject specialist

The Guardian - UK

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More than 700,000 GCSE students without specialist physics teachers as government urged to address shortage

The Institute of Physics (IOP) has called for urgent action to tackle the shortage in physics teachers

The Independent UK

700,000 GCSE pupils without a specialist physics teacher, report suggests

Just 16% of total teaching hours for combined science are provided by a physics teacher with a post-A-level qualification, the analysis found.

Evening Standard

Geoff Marsh obituary

Other lives: Leading figure in the world of plumbing who worked to improve the status and regulation of the trade

The Guardian - UK

Davis, Blunt named to Harvard fellowship program - Roll Call

Former Sen. Roy Blunt and former Rep. Rodney Davis were named to the Harvard Kennedy School Institute of Politics fellowship program.

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Tyreek Hill Family Foundation hosts impressive gala for great cause

The wideout is bringing great play and philanthropic efforts to South Florida.

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David Axelrod has done 500 episodes of ‘The Axe Files’ and talked with every stripe of politician — here’s what he thinks of the mess we’re in now

CHICAGO — You’ve likely heard this before, or felt it in your bones, but it’s horrifying, debilitating and worth repeating, especially right now, as we head into a political season: At least half of this country hates the other half. According to the Pew Research Center, 75% of Democrats think…

Chicago Tribune

70 Percent of Republicans and Democrats Agree: The Other Side Are 'Bullies'

A new poll from the University of Chicago's Institute of Politics found that 73 percent of Republicans and 74 percent of Democrats think the other side are authoritarian bullies.

Reason

There are reasons girls don't study physics – and they don't include not liking maths

“From my own knowledge of these things, physics is not something that girls tend to fancy. They don’t want to do it … There’s a lot of hard maths in there that I think that they would rather not do,” Katharine Birbalsingh, chair of the UK government’s Social Mobility Commission…

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