School goes carbon neutral
The co-operative society likes to be known as the community retailer and as such they like to invest in good local causes, one such scheme is the Green Energy for Schools project, this is a £1 million scheme which is designed to enable schools to become eco friendly.
The main trust of this project is to [...]
Pupil banned from Christmas party
A nine year old was banned from the school Christmas party on religious grounds, Douglas Stewart was told to stay at home while his school friends enjoyed the school seasonal festivities with a party and even presents from Santa.
So how can something like this come about?
Well it seems that the boys parents no longer wanted [...]
Learning languages online
Learning a language is pretty hard, but when you are leading a busy life, then this sort of thing get often gets left off and it ends up being one of those things that never gets done.
But there is way that a lot of people have begun to use and this does not involve having [...]
How to win
Most of us have seen people use the “Rock, Paper or Scissors” scenario in TV programmes and films for the characters to decide who goes first into the line of fire so to speak, but this method of deciding what to do, has been used in business, in fact recently a wealthy art collector could [...]
December 19, 2007School gets Audio CCTV
Being set on fire twice in the past six months is enough to drive any one to seek out some sort of method of deterring this type of vandalism which is expensive and of course dangerous.
The Clerkhill School in Peterhead, Scotland has just installed a smart CCTV system which not only covers the school area, [...]
English minorities in some schools
There are some schools in the UK where English is not the first language, around 574 out of the 17,361 primary schools and 112 of the 3,343 secondary schools, which do not have English have their first language.
There is a high concentration of these schools in London, Leicester, Blackburn and Birmingham, this follows the call [...]
Learning photography
Apparently as with any subject, especially a subject that can be regarded as a hobby or as a career there are many changes in the way this is taught and by whom, but in photography this is not the way, the fundamentals are the same as they always have been, the use of light, shade [...]
December 13, 2007Good grades means burgers
With the recent complaints by many people that fast food is so unhealthy and yet so available to the people who should not really be eating it everyday, so when you hear about the fast food chain McDonalds are rewarding kids in the states with a Happy Meal for kids who have attained good results [...]
December 11, 2007Worry about RFID chips
The school in Doncaster that has been trying out a unique RFID tracking device are coming under fire; this is due the loss of the data from the HM customs and excise.
People are losing faith in the governments and other authorities abilities control the data that they hold, but as this concerns school children the [...]
Businesses in schools
It seems that there is an increase in the way that businesses are targeting kids in schools these days, to point where children are becoming brand aware at a very young age, is this a good thing?
It would seem companies are so keen to impress their future customers that they are willing to spend around [...]
All school kids need sex education
A group of major charities and organisations have suggested that there should an effort to teach children about sex and relationships right throughout their time in the education system.
The comes when the government announce that the rate for teenage pregnancy is at the lowest for nearly twenty years, and that school aged children are being [...]
File sharing give University problems
When US Universities and the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) formed an alliance to try and stop students from downloading files from illegal sources, it was thought of as being a sensible move, but this alliance has created some problems for the Universities.
The software toolkit provided was supposed to detect and prevent an illegal [...]
Experiments seen online
Chemistry students can see experiments being conducted on videos that are available online; this is a great idea and an excellent resource for students and teachers to use, which will compliment the lesson without the need to spend all of time needed to set experiments.
SciVee.com has been created by pharmacologist Phil Bourne from UC San [...]