A seven-year-old blind girl Lilly Grace Hooper had been banned from using her walking stick (also known as mobility tool to detect object in the path of the user) at Hambrook Primary, school in Bristol, over health and safety fears. After a risk assessment which said the Lilly grace should have 100 per cent adult…
Imran Khan a teacher from Rajasthan, India, who developed 52 education-oriented mobile apps since 2012, has donated free to students, is happy after being hailed by Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi in his Wembley Speech.
The international influence of British popular culture including the unsung stars of English stage and their cameos in Harry Potter , Top Gear, Del Boy, Andrew Lloyd Webber is the subject of Dominic Sandbrook’s The Great British Dream Factory. With the British financial relevance on the vane, Dominic argues that it is our vision and…
A lost poem written in a 20-page pamphlet “Shelley’s Poetical Essay on the Existing State of Things” by Percy Bysshe Shelley has been purchased by the University of Oxford. This pamphlet will become the 12 millionth book to added to the Bodleian Library’s vast archives. Shelley wrote the work during 1810 and 1811, while studying…
A book written by Andy Weir has been transformed into a film directed by Ridley Scott which covers several levels of survival – the lead character, Mark Watney, for example, being left on Mars when his crew abandon the planet in a spaceship under bad weather conditions, thinking Mark to be dead. Mark – played by Matt Damon, not only…
“The Chinar Leaves” by Veteran Congress leader ML Fotedar, to whom late Indian Prime Minister Mrs Indira Gandhi during her visit to Srinagar in 0ctober 1984, had shared her premonition that “Priyanka her granddaughter will shine and the next century will be the new generation, as people will see me in her” and as she…
In one year in the UK a record number of 50,000 teachers quit and now the government is having to look abroad for new recruits. Officials are “building relationships with target countries” to try and bring teachers into the country who will not leave their jobs. For example, between November 2013 and November 2014, 49120…
Martin Sandbu’s Europe’s Orphan makes you think again, an indepth analysis of the Eurozone crisis as he argues that the system is right plagued with wrong policies. Sandbu traces European Monetary Union back to the desire for greater European unity after the Second World War, and the euro’s creation coincided with a credit bubble that…
This book, published by Quartet, is the second by Robert Montagu, son of the Earl of Sandwich, with one older brother and four older sisters. It tells the story of his youth after his mother had left the family with nannies and his father in charge, his mother, married at 18, apparently going to live…
In the past politician’s wealth and where the money comes from and how it is spent, all could be hidden in the glare of publicity. Today’s politicians have to be more open about their wealth, like the public obsession with Hillary Clinton’s wealth of scandal in the UK over MP’s expenses claims. The history of…