How gangs have taken the place of parents in urban ghettoes
The Independent
The growing acceptance of this culture has helped create cases such as Alex Mulumba, a 15-year-old who was stabbed to death in 2006, leaving his father to say that his boy, apparently a diligent student, had "wanted to go to college and do electrical …

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New Chief Financial Officer appointed at Imperial College London
Imperial College London
It was ranked 3 rd in Europe and 9 th in the world in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2010-11. On Mr Sanderson's appointment, Mr Andrew Murphy, who has served as Acting Chief Financial Officer since December 2010, will return to …

The power of the hoodie
The Guardian
"Leisure- and sportswear adopted for everyday wear suggests a distance from the world of office [suit] or school [uniform]," Angela McRobbie, professor of communications at Goldsmiths College, once told the Guardian. "Rap culture celebrates defiance, …

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Ian Harwood
Telegraph.co.uk
Born at Petersfield, Hampshire, on August 29 1931, Ian Harwood was educated at the Pilgrims' School in Winchester, which provides choristers for Winchester Cathedral and Winchester College. He later recalled: "I soon became acquainted with Palestrina, …

Heads challenge parents over riot
BBC News
Head teachers' leader, Brian Lightman, says there need to be some "hard questions" and "uncomfortable truths" for parents and families, after youngsters were caught up in an unprecedented night of …

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FanZone United
SkySports (blog)
Each player has to combine working in their normal day to day jobs or studies at University/College, with the considerable demands of training and playing for Newcastle United WFC. For 2011-12 NUWFC has a squad of 36 players and will be fielding two …

Danielle is truly a model student!
Midulster Today
The proud Magherafelt student is also currently gracing a seven-page fashion spread in local glossy magazine Northern Woman. Speaking to the Mail Danielle said she is still overwhelmed since being thrust into the world of fashion following her …

What turns people into looters?
BBC News
By Tom de Castella & Caroline McClatchey BBC News Magazine Many in the UK are reeling after days of images of brazen thefts and wanton damage during the riots, but just where is the tipping point when people think they can start looting? …
Britain is Burning: Psychologists Attempt to Explain Whyallvoices

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A place at university for determined dyslexia sufferer
The Leader – Wrexham & Flintshire news
The 43-year-old, who left school at 16 with few qualifications and who has two grown-up sons, didn't even know she was dyslexic until she was diagnosed at the college. But she has made up for lost time since last September and was presented with the …

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Blackburn College student 'graduates' without a degree
Lancashire Telegraph
Since the recession hit the UK economy thousands of young people have been left unable to secure work and graduates have found it difficult to find graduate level jobs with many taking voluntary positions or opting to take up further study. …
South African students given a taste of BlackburnThis Is Lancashire

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