AN INQUIRY has been launched into measures taken by the police, schools, transport firms and other public bodies to stop disabled people being harassed or attacked, it was announced today. The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) warned it could take enforcement action if it found that organisations were failing in their duties. As part [...]
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Beatbullying has called on the new coalition government to urgently act on its promise to tackle bullying in schools after their research revealed a worrying lack of transparent data on the causes of child suicide. The bullying prevention charity published a report which found bullying caused 44 per cent of suicides by children aged 10 [...]
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In a move that has sent shock waves throughout the education technology world, the British Educational Communications and Technology Agency (BECTA), which has been a leading international voice in research and support for using information and communications technology (ICT) in schools, is shutting its doors—a victim of the new U.K. government’s cost-cutting measures. BECTA’s closing [...]
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Registration for the 7th Annual Conference of the International Bullying Prevention Association is now open. The conference will take place in Seattle, Washington, November 15 – 17, 2010. The location is the beautiful Washington State Convention and Trade Center. The headquarters hotel is the luxurious Crowne Plaza Downtown, which is only two blocks from the [...]
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A new study has said that about 44 percent of suicides by children between 10-14 years of age are due to bullying. According to Charity Beatbullying, 26 out of the 59 cases reported in the national media in eight years were certainly connected to bullying. MORE >>>
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The concept of peer mentoring generally involves older students advising and counseling younger students about issues affecting them. Since younger adolescents tend to look up to (and seek to emulate) older adolescents, this dynamic can be exploited to teach important lessons about the use of computers and communications technology. Peer mentoring has been fruitful in [...]
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OTTAWA — Just as Ontario is set to pass a new bill making workplace harassment illegal, new research from Queen’s University’s School of Business indicates that workplace bullying can be more damaging than racial or gender harassment. “While ethnic harassment and gender harassment can both be attributed to prejudice, general workplace harassment is a subtle [...]
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(NOTE: While this blog focuses on school bullying and cyberbullying, I run occasional pieces about adult workplace bullying. The reason is quite simple: it reminds us that schoolyard bullies frequently grow up to become adult workplace bullies. The consequences are the same in both venues: poor attendance, low morale, declining productivity. Both need to be [...]
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