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Fate of War in Lebanon Rests Mostly With Outside Powers

Fate of War in Lebanon Rests Mostly With Outside Powers

Published by Sam Flores

A day after President Trump announced a potential deal with Iran, Lebanon found itself in a familiar position — waiting on outside powers to determine whether the latest war to devastate the country was drawing to an end. After Hezbollah, the Iranian-backed Lebanese militant group, fired on Israel in March in solidarity with its patron, the country was dragged into a conflict that has killed more than 3,000 people and displaced hundreds of thousands. A U.S.-brokered cease-fire took effect on April 17, but Israel and Hezbollah have continued to clash, with each side accusing the other of violating the truce. The fighting has escalated in recent weeks, exposing the limits of the cease-fire and stoking fears that the conflict could turn into yet another full-blown war. On Sunday, Lebanon hoped that the agreement announced by Mr. Trump could bring a degree of calm after months of intense upheaval. While the terms of the agreement are murky, three senior Iranian officials told The New York Times that it would halt the fighting on all fronts, including …

Inclusion promise rests on a workforce DfE can’t count

Inclusion promise rests on a workforce DfE can’t count

Published by skeptic

The schools white paper’s “experts at hand” scheme is the largest overhaul of school inclusion in a decade. By the end of 2028-29, every primary school is to receive around 40 days of expert support a year, and every secondary around 160, through a £1.8 billion service built around educational psychologists (EPs) and speech and language therapists, alongside wider specialist support. The ambition is right, but a core part of the workforce who will deliver the ambition – educational psychologists – is one the Department for Education (DfE) cannot currently see, count or grow fast enough to deliver on that date. Educational psychologists are already stretched thin, unevenly distributed and partly invisible to the department now trying to expand their numbers. Three problems, set out in our new EPI report for the British Psychological Society, go unaddressed in the white paper. These issues will determine whether experts at hand works. The timeline does not fit Training an educational psychologist takes a three-year doctorate. The cohort beginning in September 2026 will not qualify until 2029, the …