The new idents all incorporate the colour red, as the channel’s signature colour, to match a new red and white logo.. The coÂowners of ITV Digital today successfully applied to the High Court for the channel to be placed in administration. “There is short term funding preserving it as a going concern.”. A student who is suing Oxford University for racial discrimination exaggerated his academic abilities when he applied for the course, the university’s lawyers said yesterday. But Mr Bowers said he failed to declare he had started a degree in Arabic and Persian the previous year and had quit after failing exams on Arabic texts and elementary language.Mr Ahmed said he had not thought it necessary to declare that he had started the earlier course.
But Mr Bowers responded: “I tell you why I think it is, it was to give the impression that you have a greater understanding of Arabic than in fact you did. I suggest that you have exaggerated your ability in Arabic.”Mr Ahmed believed he had a good enough understanding of the language to get him through his degree. But after the exam failure in 1999, he was told he would not be able to go on to study for a doctorate in philosophy at the university.Mr Ahmed’s case is supported by his tutor, Tom Paulin, the poet and BBC2 arts reviewer who is expected to give evidence The case continues.. Teachers demanded yesterday that private prosecutions should be taken out against any parent or pupil assaulting school staff.
Judith Waugh, head of the lower school at John F Kennedy in Stratford, east London was attacked by the 14-year-old boy in 1998 and, although she only suffered minor facial injuries, she has been psychologically affected since and is receiving therapyDelegates at the ATL conference accused schools and councils of too often failing to protect members against a growing tide of physical and verbal abuse that has seen assault claims increase rapidly during the past five years.Estelle Morris, the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, supports the union’s demand for tougher action on assaults. She is expected to tell the conference today: “Local education authorities should ensure that parents who attack teachers are prosecuted and that should include custodial sentences if the attack is serious enough There is no excuse for attacking teachers. The CPS was also said to be reluctant to act.Union figures show an increase in the number of reported assaults on teachers from 34 in 1998 to 120 last year.The union is already considering a test case supporting one of its members in a private prosecution against a parent in London who attacked a teacher at a bus stop after his child was put in detention.In a separate initiative, delegates voted unanimously in support of industrial action over the need to reduce teachers’ workload. The association is the first of the teaching unions to vote on an identically worded motion warning of action in schools if the Government fails fully to fund a package to modernise the profession.Hank Roberts, from Copeland School in Brent, north-west London, said: “This year it should be a declaration of war – war against having untrained, unqualified teachers in front of our children.”. Kenneth Wolstenholme, sports commentator: born Worsley, Lancashire 17 July 1920; DFC 1944, bar 1945; married (one daughter); died Torquay, Devon 25 March 2002.
The broadcaster who had coined the phrase at the 1966 World Cup Final, Kenneth Wolstenholme, protested angrily at the use of the title for a programme he thought was tacky, and threatened legal action.His complaints were brushed aside, just as he himself had been brushed aside in 1970 when the BBC replaced Wolstenholme, then virtually the nation’s only football commentator, with David Coleman. Wolstenholme deserved better from the corporation he had served, in radio and television, since soon after the Second World War. Had he gone quietly, he might have been favoured with a job elsewhere in the BBC, but he continued to rail against what he thought of as declining standards and dumbing down until his death.He was born in Worsley, near Bolton, in 1920 and stayed loyal to the Wanderers. He worked in local newspapers until he joined the RAF, anticipating call-up by volunteering for pilot training in 1938. He flew Blenheims and Mosquitos during the war, taking part in more than 100 missions, and was awarded a DFC and bar.