Triple science by postcode: what science teachers say is missingThe Royal Society of Chemistry’s Science Teaching Survey 2026, published on 8 September, found that teachers in schools in England with a higher proportion of pupils eligible for free school meals are far less likely to expect their school to offer all three sciences. Teachers cite a lack of science teachers, and more than half of respondents in mainstream schools in England say practical lessons are underfunded.
The address printed on a certificateA Florida nursing-school owner pleaded guilty in June 2026 in a scheme that, evidence at trial showed, issued 2,956 fake nursing diplomas. Certificates from the course library now part of VARGATES Medical carry a QR code to a public page where anyone can check who holds one and what it certifies.- Who can see this case? The question a shared learning platform must answer firstMonths after the Canvas breach, Instructure is returning to each university its own packet of the files taken from it. For a medical faculty choosing a simulation platform, the first question is which accounts can reach its cases and its students’ progress — here is how VARGATES Medical answers it.
- Complement or competitor: what a national simulation tender says about virtual patientsNHS Supply Chain has opened tenders for a Medical Simulation and Technologies Framework that puts manikins, task trainers and immersive virtual clinical environments into separate lots, scored differently. For a distributor who already carries simulation equipment, it shows where a virtual-patient simulator sits: beside the equipment, in its own line of the specification.
