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Child given detention for getting less than 90% on a test – psychology shows there are far better ways to motivate students

By Friend of the Meteor | 5 March 2025Friends of The Meteor

This week’s FOTM is republished from The Conversation. It addresses the recent reports that a child at Stewards Academy in Harlow, Essex, was punished for a grade below 90% on their maths homework.

Show your face and go home: asylum seekers and migrants forced to travel from Stoke to Salford for two-minute appointments

By Guest Writer | 30 November 2018News

People living in Stoke-on-Trent with pending asylum and immigration claims have been told by the Home Office that they have to report at Dallas Court in Salford – an 80 to 90-mile round trip. Over 80,000 people per year have to report at their local Home Office reporting centre or a police station. In the […]

Manchester squatters ‘put the flare up’ for Yarl’s Wood hunger strikers with solidarity event

By Guest Writer | 11 March 2018News

On the eve of International Women’s Day, Manchester squatters hoisted the banner in solidarity with the female hunger strikers of Yarl’s Wood Immigration Removal Centre, beckoning citizens into their space for a night of radical film and discussion. The films ranged from an investigation by Channel 4 News into the dehumanising conditions at the centre […]

Manchester community organiser, Dianne Ngoza, detained and threatened with illegal deportation

By Sorcha O’Callaghan | 29 November 2016Features

The Home Office is making an unlawful attempt to remove community organiser and nurse Dianne Ngoza from the UK to Zambia this Wednesday 30th November. Dianne has lived in the UK for 14 years.   The Home Office refused Dianne’s leave to remain, claiming that she would have no problem integrating into Zambian society if […]

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