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...November in South Wales, cancer surviver Bianca Powell, 12, suffered minor burns when a bully set fire to her hair, which had just grown back after four years of chemotherapy. That same month, the National Confederation of Parent-Teacher Associations, a British national education charity, released results of a survey that reflects growing concerns about bullying. Of the 1,682 British parents surveyed, 21% said their children had been bullied at school in the past year; of those, 57% were attacked verbally and 27% physically...
...tackle bullying, many teachers feel unprepared to deal with the problem. In France, Germany and Britain, students can be expelled for bullying, although that tends only to move the problem to another school. Teachers need help - because they don't always know the best strategies. In a 2001 survey of 66 Czech grade schools, 85% of teachers demonstrated that they had little idea how to resolve a bullying problem: the best solution, they said, was to bring together perpetrator and victim. Bad move, says Michal Kolar, chairman of the Prague-based Society Against Bullying, who describes that technique as like...
...perception is not shared by the public, who see Brown as "a socialist wolf in sheep's clothing." But this is not necessarily an electoral disadvantage: Labour's current 5% lead over the Tories under Blair would increase to 13% if Brown were at the helm, according to a survey by pollsters NOP. And a whiff of good, old-fashioned socialism does nothing to harm Brown's high standing with Labour's grassroots or with the unions. Each sector controls one-third of the votes in the electoral college Labour must convene when it chooses its leader. Although there...
...council’s Student Affairs Committee (SAC), which conducted a phone survey of 257 undergraduates, found that 92 percent favored a 24-hour library on campus...
Across all institutions, the survey reported “modest” changes in asset allocations, including an increase in high-yield bonds. But the top performing endowments decreased their investments in alternative strategies and fixed income, and increased their allocations to domestic and international equity, as well as cash...