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Children’s primary to secondary school transitions
The Times https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/covid-bubbles-protect-year-7-children-from-stress-and-bullies-p3q6gnr2m 3 May 2021
The Telegraph “Younger pupils flourishing in bubbles without older teens” 4 May 2021
BBC Newsround https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/56980528 4th May 2021
Talk Radio, Ian Collins Show, 4th May 2021, 15:35 – 15:40
BBC Radio Five, 5 Live Drive, 4th May 2021, 17:45 – 17:50
BBC Radio London, Vanessa Feltz Show, 5th May 2021, 07:20
Sky News Today, 5th May 2021, 12:30
School history
Episode 4 – ‘A lifetime of sitting down’ 4th May 2021
A Somewhat Complete History of Sitting Down (Audible Original) with Greg Jenner
Brexit
Saarland Rundfunk, Germany (interview in German), 30th March 2019.
Should we abolish GCSEs?
Times Radio, Mariella Frostrup Show, 13th January 2021: 13:15 to 13:45
BBC Radio 4, The Briefing Room, 14th February, 2019: 9′ 10″ to 13′ 20″
School surveillance
Schools Week, 2nd December 2018
https://schoolsweek.co.uk/surveillance/
Scrapping GCSEs
Guardian Newspaper, 21st August 2018
https://www.theguardian.com/profile/sandra-leaton-gray
Knowledge-rich v enquiry-based learning
Schools Week 1st August 2018
When did ‘knowledge-rich’ and ‘enquiry-based’ learning become mutually exclusive?
Children and social media/gaming dangers
Voice of Islam Radio, 11th October 2018 (1:28:00 to 1:36:00)
https://soundcloud.com/voislam/breakfast-podcast-show-11-10-2018
New Statesman, 30th January 2018
Children, digital privacy and sexting
Voice of Islam Radio 11 January 2018 (1:30 to 1:36:38) https://soundcloud.com/voislam/breakfast-show-podcast-11-01-2018
Today FM, Ireland 6 June 2017 (1440h-1445h)
Observer https://www.theguardian.com/society/2017/jun/03/sexting-parents-panic-children-make-own-moral-codes 4 June 2017
Times https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/anxious-parents-creating-moral-panic-over-social-media-602tfmxx0 30 May 2017
BBC World Service http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p053t5j3 31 May 2017 [17:19 minutes to 22.49 minutes]
Biometrics in schools
La Presse http://www.lapresse.ca/international/correspondants/201406/28/01-4779588-angleterre-fournir-ses-empreintes-digitales-a-lecole.php 28 June 2014
Schools “taking risks” with pupil data collection
Daily Telegraph http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/educationnews/9517647/Schools-put-pupils-information-at-risk.html 4 September 2012
London Evening Standard http://www.standard.co.uk/news/education/schools-not-considering-students-security-when-collecting-biometric-data-8103779.html 4 September 2012
Manchurian Matters http://www.mancunianmatters.co.uk/content/04095197-nearly-half-schools-put-childrens-personal-data-risk-poor-security-manchester-confe 4 September 2012
Info security Magazine https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/uk-schools-put-kids-information-at-risk-through/ 4 September 2012
Planet Biometrics http://www.planetbiometrics.com/article-details/i/1231/ 4 September 2012
The Express http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/343920/Schools-put-pupils-data-at-risk 4 September 2012
The Scotsman http://www.scotsman.com/news/education/schools-put-pupils-data-at-risk-finds-new-survey-1-2504122 4 September 2012
plus over 40 UK regional/local newspapers and online media coverage of this story
Teacher professionalism
BBC http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/4866094.stm 31 March 2006
Cambridge Network http://www.cambridgenetwork.co.uk/news/classroom-guilt-stops-teachers-updating-subject-knowledge/? 22 April 2005
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