Mental Health Awareness Week starts on 15 May and the theme for this year is anxiety. We can all experience feelings of anxiety at any time in our lives, for many different reasons. Whether it’s big life events, money troubles, relationship changes or a new job – anxiety is...
Researchers and computer scientists at Bournemouth University have developed a dynamic online game to teach children how to keep safe from cyber bullying, data theft and other threats they could face online.
This week, a team of AFC Bournemouth’s Junior Cherries came to campus to try out the game.
CyGamBit has...
Students at Bournemouth University have reached a breaking point with inflation affecting rent, food and other essentials pushing many to use food banks or even face eviction from their accommodation.
“Student rent is out of control” claim NUS (National Union of Students). Their ‘Freeze rent not students’ campaign proposes an...
With a plan to significantly alter the new Graduate Visa Route, British Home Office Secretary Suella Braverman, who has made headlines for her numerous immigration campaigns such as Stop the Boats, extended her whip in October 2022 to international students studying in the UK.
Under Braverman's proposed review, the duration...
A new programme has launched to recruit social workers which you can apply for through Dorset Council.
The ‘Step Up’ to Social Work programme is a 14-month training course, which offers hands-on experience of working in a real-life social work role through placements in the Dorset Council area, whilst undertaking...
Following the toxic and often quite disturbing influence of social influencers like Andrew Tate on young males, schools across the country and beyond have had to respond.
First, please read the following:
https://dorseteye.com/i-received-this-email-about-andrew-tate-from-my-childs-school/
And then apply this guide when appropriate:
A guide by Bold Voices
1 Keep the discussion casual and friendly. Try striking up...
It comes to something when a social media influencer is hijacking the minds of young boys and negatively impacting upon schools up and down the country. So much so they are having to build a response to his hate in to the curriculum.
This Andrew Tate
https://dorseteye.com/andrew-tate-the-man-destroyed-on-twitter-by-greta-thunberg/
And this school's response.
Why is...
New app to help people eat the right portions to get to 5 a dayWhilst most people are aware of the 5-a-day message, studies show they are less aware of portion sizes and the need for variety.Official figures suggest that only a third of UK adults and 12% of...
Starting University is an intimidating and scary time at the best of times. Most people who attend University are leaving home and looking after themselves for the very first time. This means looking after their finances for the very first time, which isn’t always easy.
The cost of living crisis...
For a long while I have questioned the nature of knowledge. As it is referred to in academic circles the study of knowledge is called 'epistemology' and serves to cover the breadth of human understanding at any given point. Thus in 1222 human understanding differed radically from human understanding...
