Umay Aktaş Salman and Serkan Ocak report: A local court has authorized police to conduct searches at any time of the bags, vehicles and private documents of students at Istanbul University, daily Radikal reported Tuesday. The decision, requested by the university rector’s office, is valid from Dec. 1, 2010, to Nov. 20, 2011. Eren Can,…
Category: Youth & Schools
UK: Hundreds of school children fingerprinted for their lunch
Fiona Macleod reports: Hundreds of school children across Scotland are having to use biometric identity systems to get into libraries and claim meals, according to new figures. The statistics show 68 schools have introduced the systems, which often use fingerprint technology. The figures, obtained by the Scottish Liberal Democrats through a freedom of information request,…
UK: CCTV ‘used to monitor schoolchildren in toilets and changing rooms’
Graeme Paton reports: Schools are using CCTV cameras to spy on pupils in toilets and monitor teachers’ performance in the classroom, according to an official report. The use of video surveillance has evolved in recent years from a security measure to a tool to keep checks on children and staff, it was disclosed. A report…
“Just ignore” teen gossip sites? I think not.
Sophie Radice has a commentary about gossip web sites in the Guardian that free speech advocates may embrace : I still remember the horror of discovering that the phantom scribbler who had been writing stuff on the desks and lavatory walls had written something about me: “Sophie is a slag, who wears too much make-up”…