Ramadan is the holiest month in the Islamic calendar and Muslim students across the UK have been fasting for up to 18 hours a day in the midst of a global pandemic. [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="1024"] Photo: Students looking at work. Credit: Matty Stern/U.S. Embassy Tel...
Forget FOMO, leading climate psychologist Caroline Hickman warns about an emerging trend among young people - FOFE: fear of facing extinction. In a time scale of merely a year, born from stark warnings from scientists, and bred by mass mobilisations of grassroots activism across the globe,...
A Professor of Psychology on the relationship between the discipline and the nature of the climate and ecological crisis. Dr Matthew Adams sees no social change more profound than the ecological crisis. It began to trouble him in the mid-2000s, around about the same time...
Academics are calling for a radical reform of the current curriculum - one that reflects the social and environmental challenges of today’s world. Italy’s education minister recently announced that starting September 2020, all its public schools will require students in every grade to study climate change...
Date of broadcast: 17 October, 2019 Headline: How does LSBU support your mental health? Studio introduction: The Guardian recently conducted studies on universities’ student well-being initiatives across the UK. They found that of the leading 21 universities, only one in four said that they had standardised intervention...
HEADLINE: LSBU trumps leading universities in student welfare EXCERPT: LSBU’s student well-being intervention policies on lecture absences rank it highly amongst leading UK universities. The Guardian recently conducted studies on universities’ student well-being initiatives across the UK. They found that of the leading 21 universities, only one...
24th October, Kings College London Kings College London is involved in the national non-profit organisation Sexpression UK. Sexpression UK offer education in schools, around the topics of sex and sexual health, their aim is to allow individuals to make informed decisions about their bodies and health. Georgi Dye,...
Climate experts call out universities to make rapid and significant changes to ensure the survival of the planet. The latest IPCC report and Tuesday’s Living Planet report by WWF, which reveals that humanity has wiped out 60% of wildlife populations in less than 50 years, urges...
Huge crisis around the UK forcing secondary schools to cut members of staff meaning bigger classes and less individual attention for pupils By Olivia Kemp Many secondary schools across the UK have hit an all-time low as they are forced to ditch a total of 15,000 members...
Inner city farms have taken on the responsibility of offering agricultural education to young people in London. Mudchute Park and Farm is one of 16 city farms in London. In a city where the only animals you see are squirrels, foxes, dogs, pigeons and the odd cat people...