Category Archives: Prize-Entry

Of course, all school children are entitled to an education. However, as a Sixth-Form student in my final year, the short timespan of sixth-form being a 2 year period has shown me that perhaps sixth-form and college students should be the first and only year groups to return. Year 7s, 8s, 9s and 10s, althoughContinue reading “Prioritise the importance of A-Level and GCSE exams above lower year groups”

Stop ignoring schools’ SEN and Education, Health and Care Plan data in the funding formula used by local authorities to calculate how much delegated SEN funding each school receives. The prominent inclusion of this data in the calculation will result in more SEN funding going to those schools who most need it.     1690-11

We learnt through the Covid pandemic that we need to be quick thinking and flexible in our approach, we needed to take risks, to gamble on the future outcomes. Let us grow this aspect of our current learning and invest in the unseen future. The young across all cultures may have the creative vision toContinue reading “Young people have fewer blocks to envisaging the future. Like innovative science, lets grab it!”

The world today is reeling under the devastating impact of the Covid-19 pandemic. With the rest of society, millions of school-going students are struggling to adjust to changes forced onto the social system by the pandemic. The formal education system has suffered categorical disruptions, throwing the students’ routine out of gear. So I use thisContinue reading “Education is a weapon that can change our lives as well as Change becomes us.”

Summary: Counter-narcotics efforts have failed to reduce demand for illicit drugs over several decades and come at great cost to the public, both in the expense of policing and prisons as well as the social impact of crime and punishment associated with the trade. It is time for an alternative approach, inspired by the CovidContinue reading “Testing Not Arresting – A New Approach to Counter-Narcotics”

Having identified or established the fact that the Covid-19 crisis has clouded the vision of most health care professionals and even the whole populace and that a lot of people are wasting away,dying from other forms of illnesses and ailments due to their fear of going to the hospital to receive proper medication which hasContinue reading “REMOTE DELIVERY OF HEALTHCARE SERVICES .”

The solution to this problem isn’t the opposite of what I have said, powerful countries shouldn’t start working to help low-income countries. Not because I don’t think it would help (it would) but because I don’t think they will. It would be ridiculously hard to convince those in power of wealthy countries to focus resourcesContinue reading “The unity of low-income countries”

The number of times I have sat at red traffic lights in my comfortable car with the windscreen wipers on, or the air conditioning on, while pedestrians, sometimes with children, stand waiting for a green man. I am aware of only one place (a pelican crossing) where the lights change in the pedestrians’ favour immediatelyContinue reading “Pedestrian priority at traffic lights”

The Problem: Rising rates of mental health conditions The Opportunity: To capitalise on the current focus on mental wellbeing The Solution: An umbrella mental health organisation raising awareness and collating resources, information and services. Although mental health is better understood than ever and has become part of the conversation on morning TV and offices acrossContinue reading “Not Alone”

This is an opportunity to take some of the heat out of the housing market, and to help small investors. For those who would like a secure return on their capital, be they pension funds or someone with a small amount to invest, the government, either national or local, could provide a ‘housing bond’. ThisContinue reading “Government housing bond”