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Dorset
Saturday, November 23, 2024
Inspired by the Green Space Dark Skies event in Dorset, we’ve pulled together a programme of events to celebrate and explore the outstanding landscapes of Dorset at Dawn and Dusk … and sometimes the hours between! See Dorset in a new light as we head out to enjoy our outstanding...
School and Union leaders representing a million teachers and education specialists demand action on free school meals Teachers say worsening hunger crisis damaging children’s prospects. School and Union leaders representing more than a million teachers, support staff and others working with children have written to the chancellor Rishi Sunak and the...
Starting February 24th 2022, local mental health charity Dorset Mind will deliver a monthly drop-in service, situated in the Student Wellbeing Area at Talbot Campus. There, they will offer unbiased, non-judgmental support to students affected by eating disorders and other eating related issues. The charity will reinforce the message that recovery is possible from eating disorders – with early...
Dorset Council are advising all schools to close tomorrow. The amber weather warning has been escalated to a red warning for the South West, where national advice is for all persons to stay at home in affected areas. Dorset school transport for both Home to School and SEND will...
A Bournemouth school pupil has received a letter of support by Her Majesty The Queen and A-list celebrities in her efforts to launch a Charitable Trust to plant more trees. Nine-year-old Issey, a Year 5 pupil at Bethany C.E Junior School in Bournemouth, along with her Mother, Janine Purser, is...
This was not supposed to be aspirational: Our IQ levels are falling, and no one knows exactly why. But scientists largely agree on this: It's due to something in the environment, not to the presence of more people with less-than-stellar genes. For much of the 20th century, human intelligence steadily rose. James Flynn,...
Bournemouth University will expect fewer European students on campus after this academic year following the closure of the Erasmus exchange program for the UK. While it is still unclear what this ending entails, the European influence will surely be missed. The UK left the European Union at the beginning of 2020,...
Racial injustice is "baked into our curriculum", a teacher who complained about a history textbook has said. Hannah Wilkinson, who mentors A-level pupils in Durham, objected to a question about Native Americans, which asked if their "treatment" had been "exaggerated". She stated it was "problematic" because the "starting premise" was an...
The Jewish Chronicle warns that the dismissal of Prof David Miller is ‘just the beginning’ The Israel lobby appears to be readying for a campaign to root out leftwing academics in the UK critical of Israel’s continuing oppression of the Palestinian people – echoing its efforts against the previous leader...
East Dorset Friends of the Earth, in conjunction with Bournemouth University and UCU is holding a Climate Change Question Time at Bournemouth University, Lees Lecture Theatre, Talbot Campus on Saturday 6thNovember, 1.00 to 3.00pm. The event will enable members of the public, local organisations and councillors to hear from a panel of local experts...