Following 2012 success, Barclays Money Skills in FE gives students the opportunity to improve financial skills Students from Weymouth College are being given the opportunity to improve their financial skills, knowledge and confidence as part of Barclays Money Skills, a money management programme running from 18th-28th March. Barclays and...
The Bishop of Sherborne, Graham Kings was invited to Weymouth College on Thursday 7thFebruary as part of his busy schedule of events including a visit to The Front Skatepark and The Lantern Resource Centre. Graham met College Principal, Liz Myles for a chat, (sporting a Front Skatepark T-shirt!) before...
Please let’s stop calling children ‘bullies’ when we are talking about behaviour (and in that group I mean young people up to the age of sixteen). To call a child a bully is inaccurate, unhelpful and could be damaging. It is the behaviour we need to describe – not...
Local authority spending on training for childcare staff was cut by at least 40 per cent during the last financial year, a Freedom of Information request has revealed. Some local authorities now have no budget for training early years staff. Image: David McCullough The figures, obtained by the Labour...
The Intergenerational Foundation (IF), the Guardian and the National Union of Students (NUS) have teamed up to look for the best three-minute films exploring what it's like to be a young person in the UK today. In Britain 1.5 million people under the age of 30 are unemployed. In...
We all know it goes on. We just prefer to bury our heads. To get on with our lives and hope our children or grandchildren do not become victims. We rise up in hate when someone is charged or imprisoned and then move on – danger over. The human...
If you find that you are in a position of power but feel inadequate about something, you should point the finger at people who are not in a position of power and explain why these people are inadequate.This works for everything from what you might call 'bad spelling' or...
Understanding Society is a world leading study of the socio-economic circumstances and attitudes of 100,000 individuals in 40,000 British households. Amongst its many findings it has concluded that unhealthy teenagers are much more likely to be less happy than their healthy counterparts. Read on... Teenagers who turn their backs on...
I am extremely happy here in Kenya, and have the opportunity of making a profound and lasting difference for good in the lives of children and people totally unable to speak up for themselves – indeed, largely unknown of or ignored. This is mainly those with severe or profound...
Many of our clients present complex & challenging problems: mental health issues, substance misuse, emotional & behavioural issues which in turn impact on themselves, their family and society and sometimes they find themselves within the criminal justice system. The overall aim of the project is to help young people...
