Today’s physics news: Monday, 6 September 2010

Graduate tax would prompt top graduates to leave Britain, CBI warns
Business leaders believe tens of thousands would emigrate to avoid being charged for degree according to salary
Guardian
 
Michael Gove wants baccalaureate qualification for England
Pupils with five GCSEs – including one science – would gain the proposed certificate as ‘special recognition’, says education secretary
Guardian 
 
The stormy history of weather forecasting
It is 150 years since The Times published the first reports of the weather from around Britain based on a national weather service, the forerunner of today’s Met Office
Times 
 
Hubble re-shoots 1987 star blast
The Hubble space telescope returns to view one of its favourite subjects – a giant stellar explosion first seen from Earth in 1987.
BBC