For PE to accessible to students of all abilities, student teachers need training and experience Marko Aliaksandr Children between the ages of five and 18 should do a minimum of 60 minutes of exercise a day across the week, according to UK government recommendations. And physical education (PE) is, ofContinue Reading
A key public health adviser to the Government has said the coronavirus situation in Ireland is “on a knife edge” amid rising infections and hospital admissions. Epidemiologist Professor Philip Nolan said the virus was spreading “subtly and slowly” through the vaccinated population, while he also called on the 300,000 peopleContinue Reading
cktravels.com/Shutterstock When Nobel prize-winner Simon Kuznets declared in 1934 that “the welfare of a nation can scarcely be inferred from a measurement of national income”, he likely did not imagine that gross domestic product (GDP) would still be in use as shorthand for wellbeing and prosperity in the third decadeContinue Reading
As a species, we humans are inveterate pattern makers. We’re also plagued by recency bias – the tendency to give more weight to things that have only just happened. Hardly surprising, then, that when analysing party politics, we tend to take the results of the latest elections and try toContinue Reading
Young people in the UK have reportedly taken up university places at record levels in 2021. Some institutions have over-recruited and now face great pressure on their resources. Students are having trouble finding places to live and seats in lecture halls. Some universities are paying students to defer their place.Continue Reading
When we talk about how well or badly a government is doing, we often base that discussion around polling that shows how people say they are going to vote in the next election. Recent polling, for example, puts the Conservatives comfortably ahead of Labour in voting intentions – although theContinue Reading
In the past fortnight, record numbers of Chinese military aircraft have deliberately flown into Taiwan’s air defence zone, sparking alarm in Taiwan and concern across the region as well as for the United States and its allies. This intentional aggression has been accompanied with forthright statements from the Chinese president,Continue Reading
Colin Fisher / Alamy Stock Photo Home Secretary Priti Patel is proposing new police powers and tougher penalties for protesters, including giving courts the power to ban activists with a “history of disruption” from travelling to particular protests. Patel justifies this by saying that some protest, like the recent obstructionContinue Reading
Luke Pollard MP has been granted new funding from the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (IPSA), who oversees Parliamentary costs, in light of the shooting in Keyham. The new funding will enable Luke to hire a new full time constituency support officer to help support the communities of Keyham and Ford. Since the shootingContinue Reading
Budget 2022, to be unveiled at lunchtime today, is expected to amount to about €4.7 billion. The focus will be on addressing the rising cost of living, as well as housing, childcare and climate action. However, Taoiseach Micheál Martin has warned that there will not be “something for everyone inContinue Reading
