Facebook warning
Children’s Minister Tim Loughton has said that children under the age of 13 are setting up profiles on Facebook, currently forbidden by Facebook’s rules of use, and are thus getting involved in social media at worryingly young ages; worse, he says, parents are helping them set up these profiles. Facebook has the current age limit, and strict security settings for youngsters between 13 and 17, to comply with international regulations on children in social media, but a spokeswoman for the service concedes that age limits are impossible to enforce.
Read more about the problem here.
University of Dundee and your young graduate
14,000 UK undergraduates have just rated Dundee first in overall quality of life in the Times Higher Education Supplement’s annual student experience poll. This is up from fifth place last year. Why? Good accommodation, they say, close to classes, and also the fun of being in a stimulating city. The University have invested heavily in facilities in the last several years, which appears to be paying dividends in student popularity. Read more about it all here.
a Chinese cultural experience from Fettes
We’ve just had a lovely moment of sharing with our friends at Fettes College. Fettesian Matthew S came to Broughton’s Diversity Day, to perform on the Erhu, a traditional Chinese instrument with two strings. He played three folk tunes to a delighted audience, who spontaneously clapped along with him. Matthew says he was surprised and pleased by this. He enjoyed the performance very much and looks forward to a chance to do another.
See the Fettes tweet here.
exam season in Scotland starts: here are some stats
Have you an anxious young exam-taker? He or she is one of 159,000 this year. Together they will produce 740,096 papers, between Standard Grade and Advanced Highers. They will come from 520 schools and colleges. 34,000 of them have registered for results via the ‘mySQA’ service. The beleaguered SQA have lined up 15,000 invigilators and markers to help. See a recent news piece about it all.
For parents of prospective applicants to Napier University
Napier University advises us, and all interested parents, that they’re always happy to attend careers evenings or parents’ evenings at school if we’d like them to. They can offer a Parents’ Survival Guide session, where parents of prospective applicants to Napier can get more information about choosing courses and applying, and about what happens when students join the University.
Or if you’d like to visit them, their next undergraduate Open Day is on Saturday 13 October 2012. See details here.
Broughton High School Parent Council 