Modern Studies

Useful links and bits and pieces of interest to Modern Studies students.

[Modern Studies @modernstudies]

@STVNews at least one of those schools you mention allows their s4 pupils to take 6 nationals. Inaccurate so fact check please!

[Joseph Rowntree Foundation @jrf_uk]

Poverty rose by 900,000 in coalition's first year http://t.co/Vhf3vAyhf8 via @guardian #ukpoverty

[Modern Studies @modernstudies]

Luck shouldn’t really come into it however when you have worked hard, revised and are as well prepared as you should be.

[Modern Studies @modernstudies]

Good luck to everyone sitting their Modern Studies exams today!

[Sky News Breaking @SkyNewsBreak]

UN Chief "strongly condemns" detention of UN Peacekeepers near Golan in Syria and calls for their immediate release

[BBC News (UK) @BBCNews]

David Cameron says Somalia has promised to deliver fully federal government, and hold national elections by 2016 #Somalia2013 - @mary_harper

[Modern Studies @modernstudies]

Benefit breakdown. From #DWP.
42.3% elderly,
20.8% low income,
18.4% families,
15.5% sick/disabled,
2.6% unemployed.
From @Welfare__Reform

[Modern Studies @modernstudies]

CBSNEWS The difference between a normal brain and a murderer’s brain: http://t.co/Nk76qF17RX

[HuffPost @HuffPost]

Survey says health insurance market left out 55 million Americans in 2012 http://t.co/xWFK02gzQK

[Doug Gay 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @DougGay]

Kirk throws interesting hat into independence ring - News - http://t.co/L4ol1QAXFc: http://t.co/ANRkayRyGj

[Guardian US @GuardianUS]

Boston highlights healthcare's lost promise: it's charity now, policy later. @helaineolen: http://t.co/SFftuNi6Y8

[The Daily Record @Daily_Record]

Call for MSPs to reject Justice Secretary's plans to close 17 Scottish courts http://t.co/ttlreRGZ6Z

[BBC Scotland News @BBCScotlandNews]

MSPs call for UK-wide press controls http://t.co/d554HfkpTA

[The Daily Record @Daily_Record]

Glasgow is the most violent place in the UK, according to a new report http://t.co/KJ6OQCzXhg

[The Daily Record @Daily_Record]

Lone parents in Scotland owed £331million in payments from former partners http://t.co/rfvr312uMm

[BBC News (UK) @BBCNews]

As UK Treasury and Scottish government clash on possible post-independence currency, find all referendum coverage at http://t.co/7lRHzIHPGn

[Nick Sutton @suttonnick]

Wednesday's Metro front page - "The hunger on all our doorsteps" #tomorrowspaperstoday #bbcpapers (via @dcmonk)

[Daily Mail @DailyMail]

Pensioners unable to afford to stop working because they need £174,000 more in their retirement fund than 4 years ago http://t.co/YJkZxfL1P6

[Daily Mail @DailyMail]

Birmingham is the STI capital of the UK, with more 30-somethings getting infected than ever before http://t.co/618nTowTko