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Pearson and British Esports Federation Launch First Internationally Recognised Higher National BTEC Qualifications in Esports

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Thursday, March 14, 2024
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British Esports, the UK’s national esports federation, and Pearson (FTSE: PSON,L), the world’s leading learning company, have launched a new suite of higher-tier BTEC qualifications in Esports - the first internationally available qualifications of their kind.

Key Points: 
  • British Esports, the UK’s national esports federation, and Pearson (FTSE: PSON,L), the world’s leading learning company, have launched a new suite of higher-tier BTEC qualifications in Esports - the first internationally available qualifications of their kind.
  • “This qualification is the perfect avenue to the top-up degree available from College of Esports for Level 6 and ultimately, Level 7.”
    For more information about the Higher National BTEC Qualifications in Esports, please visit the BTEC Higher Nationals in Esports .
  • These new qualifications, launching in 2024, complement Pearson and British Esports’ existing BTEC in Esports offering, including the Level 2 Skills in Esports BTEC for Key Stage 4 students, and the Level 3 BTEC Nationals in Esports for students aged 16+.
  • The BTEC Higher National qualifications are widely recognised by industry and higher education authorities around the world as the principal technical professional qualification at this level.

Pearson and British Esports Federation Launch First Internationally Recognised Higher National BTEC Qualifications in Esports

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Thursday, March 14, 2024
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LONDON, March 14, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- British Esports, the UK's national esports federation, and Pearson (FTSE: PSON,L), the world's leading learning company, have launched a new suite of higher-tier BTEC qualifications in Esports - the first internationally available qualifications of their kind.

Key Points: 
  • LONDON, March 14, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- British Esports, the UK's national esports federation, and Pearson (FTSE: PSON,L), the world's leading learning company, have launched a new suite of higher-tier BTEC qualifications in Esports - the first internationally available qualifications of their kind.
  • For more information about the Higher National BTEC Qualifications in Esports, please visit the BTEC Higher Nationals in Esports .
  • These new qualifications, launching in 2024, complement Pearson and British Esports' existing BTEC in Esports offering, including the Level 2 Skills in Esports BTEC for Key Stage 4 students, and the Level 3 BTEC Nationals in Esports for students aged 16+.
  • The BTEC Higher National qualifications are widely recognised by industry and higher education authorities around the world as the principal technical professional qualification at this level.

Pearson and British Esports Federation Launch First Internationally Recognised Higher National BTEC Qualifications in Esports

Retrieved on: 
Thursday, March 14, 2024
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LONDON, March 14, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- British Esports, the UK's national esports federation, and Pearson (FTSE: PSON,L), the world's leading learning company, have launched a new suite of higher-tier BTEC qualifications in Esports - the first internationally available qualifications of their kind.

Key Points: 
  • LONDON, March 14, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- British Esports, the UK's national esports federation, and Pearson (FTSE: PSON,L), the world's leading learning company, have launched a new suite of higher-tier BTEC qualifications in Esports - the first internationally available qualifications of their kind.
  • For more information about the Higher National BTEC Qualifications in Esports, please visit the BTEC Higher Nationals in Esports .
  • These new qualifications, launching in 2024, complement Pearson and British Esports' existing BTEC in Esports offering, including the Level 2 Skills in Esports BTEC for Key Stage 4 students, and the Level 3 BTEC Nationals in Esports for students aged 16+.
  • The BTEC Higher National qualifications are widely recognised by industry and higher education authorities around the world as the principal technical professional qualification at this level.

Compass Minerals Names Gordon Dunn Chief Operations Officer

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Wednesday, February 21, 2024
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Compass Minerals (NYSE: CMP), a leading global provider of essential minerals, today announced the appointment of Gordon Dunn as the company’s new chief operations officer (COO).

Key Points: 
  • Compass Minerals (NYSE: CMP), a leading global provider of essential minerals, today announced the appointment of Gordon Dunn as the company’s new chief operations officer (COO).
  • In this role, Dunn holds executive management responsibility over all global operations within the company’s Salt and Plant Nutrition businesses, building upon his tenure leading the company’s U.K. operations since January 2012.
  • View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20240220786086/en/
    Gordon Dunn, newly named chief operations officer for Compass Minerals (NYSE: CMP) (Photo: Business Wire)
    “In addition to Gordon’s extensive experience leading safe and responsible operations, his technical expertise will serve us well as we focus on operational efficiencies and cost reduction initiatives across our operating footprint.
  • As part of this transition, Schuller has left Compass Minerals.

Children’s high-impact sports can be abuse – experts explain why

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Tuesday, February 6, 2024
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CTE continues to be a serious risk associated with high impact sports, such as boxing, American football and rugby.

Key Points: 
  • CTE continues to be a serious risk associated with high impact sports, such as boxing, American football and rugby.
  • The NFL has paid out almost a million pounds to former players suffering the effects of sport-induced brain trauma.
  • Each additional year of playing impact sports raises the risk of CTE, by as much as 30% in American football.
  • Academic evidence and medical professionals now agree that sport-induced brain trauma leads to degenerative brain disease.

Not suitable for under-18s

  • We are not calling for adult versions of impact sports to be banned and our argument does not apply to sports or activities where brain trauma might occur by accident.
  • For example, heading a football can result in immediate and measurable alterations to brain functioning and longer-term brain diseases, such as CTE.
  • The risk of CTE is far higher in sports such as American football and rugby.

Staying healthy

  • Teams sports can reduce isolation and help players to develop a range of social skills.
  • There are no health benefits of tackling – and there are no health benefits of being struck in the head.
  • Research has shown that incidents of contact during children’s rugby are the cause of cause of 87% of known injuries.

Inability to consent

  • Children are unable to make informed decisions about the long-term risks of these activities.
  • Our research draws on a number of legal positions that support our argument that neither children nor parents on their behalf can consent to sports that require brain trauma as a necessary component of the sport.
  • Some commentators have agreed that while high-impact sports are dangerous, using the term child abuse is a step too far.
  • Read more:
    Sport-induced traumatic brain injury: families reveal the 'hell' of living with the condition


Keith Parry is affiliated with the Concussion Legacy Foundation (UK). Eric Anderson and Gary Turner do not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organisation that would benefit from this article, and have disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their academic appointment.

Crowell Names Mark Fenoughty as CFO

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Thursday, January 11, 2024
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WASHINGTON, Jan. 11, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Crowell & Moring announced today that Mark Fenoughty, an experienced senior financial executive, has joined the firm as its new Chief Financial Officer. Fenoughty will lead the firm's finance and accounting functions and play a key role in driving the firm's business priorities.

Key Points: 
  • WASHINGTON, Jan. 11, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Crowell & Moring announced today that Mark Fenoughty, an experienced senior financial executive, has joined the firm as its new Chief Financial Officer.
  • Fenoughty will lead the firm's finance and accounting functions and play a key role in driving the firm's business priorities.
  • Fenoughty joins from the global firm DLA Piper, where he held senior finance positions across Europe, Asia, and the United States.
  • "Crowell has an exceptional reputation, a strategic vision for the future, and a culture that emphasizes collaboration, communication, and innovation," Fenoughty said.

Onconova Expands Leadership Team with Two Key Appointments

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Tuesday, October 24, 2023
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NEWTOWN, Pa., Oct. 24, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Onconova Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ: ONTX), (“Onconova”, the “Company”), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on discovering and developing novel products for patients with cancer, today announced that the Company expanded its leadership team with the naming of Dr. Victor Moyo as Chief Medical Officer (CMO), and the addition of Meena Arora as Vice President, Global Medical Affairs and Research and Development (R&D).

Key Points: 
  • Both are accomplished experts in their fields and bring significant and wide expertise in drug development.
  • I look forward to working with my colleagues at Onconova and our clinical collaborators to contribute to our mission of bringing narazaciclib and rigosertib to patients with cancer.
  • He has also held various leadership roles as Vice President of Clinical Investigations at Merrimack Pharmaceuticals and the Centocor Ortho Biotech Services, LLC division of Johnson & Johnson.
  • Prior to that, she held various leadership roles as Medical Director or Associate Medical Director, as well as roles in Investigator Research and Medical Affairs at Celgene International.

Illegal migration bill to become law: what you need to know

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Wednesday, July 19, 2023
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After a series of late-night votes and months of controversy, the bill is now set to receive royal assent and become the Illegal Migration Act 2023.

Key Points: 
  • After a series of late-night votes and months of controversy, the bill is now set to receive royal assent and become the Illegal Migration Act 2023.
  • The illegal migration bill piece of legislation is the central pillar of Rishi Sunak’s plan to stop small boat crossings, one of his five promises as prime minister.
  • A key facet of the bill – the Rwanda migration partnership – remains in legal limbo.
  • The House of Lords tried to soften these parts of the bill through a series of amendments, but was ultimately defeated by the government.

Legal concerns

    • The home secretary, Suella Braverman, said herself that the bill would “push the boundaries” of international law.
    • While international refugee law is difficult to enforce, there are a number of issues in the bill that are likely to face prolonged legal battles.

Will it even work?

    • But there is very little evidence) to show that this approach of “deterrence” would be effective, writes Peter William Walsh, a researcher at Oxford University’s Migration Observatory.
    • Read more:
      The government's plan to remove asylum seekers will be a logistical mess – and may not deter people from coming to the UK

The trauma of the asylum system

Wugen Presents New Preclinical Data Reinforcing Anti-Tumor Functionality of WU-NK-101 at the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) Annual Meeting 2023

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Wednesday, April 19, 2023
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“These data build on the growing body of evidence demonstrating the broad, powerful immuno-oncological applications of WU-NK-101,” said Kumar Srinivasan, Ph.D., M.B.A., President and Chief Executive Officer of Wugen.

Key Points: 
  • “These data build on the growing body of evidence demonstrating the broad, powerful immuno-oncological applications of WU-NK-101,” said Kumar Srinivasan, Ph.D., M.B.A., President and Chief Executive Officer of Wugen.
  • PD-L1 and MHC-I checkpoint upregulation by WU-NK-101 was confirmed in in vitro and in vivo solid tumor models.
  • In in vitro models, WU-NK-101 secreted factors augmented PD-L1 and MHC-I expression, with a dose-dependent increase observed.
  • In vivo xenograft models confirmed the efficacy of WU-NK-101 as a monotherapy and confirmed in vitro findings of increased checkpoint expression post-treatment.

Orgvue Appoints Oliver Shaw as Chief Executive Officer

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Wednesday, January 18, 2023
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Orgvue , the enterprise organizational design and workforce planning software platform, has today announced the appointment of Oliver Shaw to the position of Chief Executive Officer.

Key Points: 
  • Orgvue , the enterprise organizational design and workforce planning software platform, has today announced the appointment of Oliver Shaw to the position of Chief Executive Officer.
  • View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20230118005059/en/
    Orgvue Appoints Oliver Shaw as Chief Executive Officer (Photo: Business Wire)
    In position from January 2023, Shaw’s focus at the helm of the business will seek to fuel Orgvue’s continued growth and ability to provide enterprise organizations with access to the right market-leading technology for organizational design, planning, and workforce insights.
  • Previous experience includes 10 years at IRIS Software in corporate development and as CEO of the human capital management division.
  • Shaw studied Business Studies at Humberside University and holds an MBA from Nottingham Trent University.