22 h. ago ‘Don’t pander to the tech giants!’ How a youth movement for digital justice is spreading across Europe

Gen z are the first generation to have grown up with social media, they were the earliest adopters, and therefore the first to suffer its harms. Now they are fighting backLate one night in April 2020, towards the start of the Covid lockdowns, Shanley Clémot McLaren was scrolling on her phone when she noticed a Snapchat post by her 16-year-old sister. “She’s basically filming herself from her bed, and she’s like: ‘Guys you shouldn’t be doing this. These fisha accounts are really not OK. Girls, please protect yourselves.’ And I’m like: ‘What is fisha?’ I was 21, but I felt old,” she says.She went into her sister’s bedroom, where her sibling showed her a Snapchat account named “fisha” plus the code of their Paris suburb. Fisha is French slang for publicly shaming someone – from the verb “afficher”, meaning to display or make public. The account contained intimate images of girls from her sister’s school and dozens of others, “along with the personal data of the victims – their names, p...

Politics

30 h. ago LSE and Imperial team up to build girls’ confidence in maths

LSE and Imperial team up to build girls’ confidence in maths  The London School of Economics and Political Science

Politics

54 h. ago Devastated family speak out after girl, 12, hit by Mercedes on walk to school

Layla Redfern is likely to have to remain in hospital for months after suffering a severe brain injury

Events

5 d. ago Rightwingers are trying to destroy women’s right to vote | Moira Donegan

Calls for disenfranchisement rest on a single assumption: that women’s citizenship is partial and conditionalSexism can be very modern and tech savvy. Misogyny is an ever-evolving idiom, and men and women alike have found particularly of-the-moment ways to operate within the genre. Think of the apps that take images of women and remove their clothes, or the AI bots that men and boys can use to generate pornography or depictions of graphic violence against women and girls for the crime of going to the same school as they do or running for office. Think of the influencers of the so-called “womanosphere” who tell their female audiences that women who seek out friendship or equality with men are morons or cows, all through the gleam of a TikTok filter. Sexism may be the world’s oldest prejudice and its first unjust hierarchy, but it is continually innovating, adapting to new technologies and the most recent rhetorical needs of male supremacy.But some of the forms of misogyny that have b...

Politics

6 d. ago Paedophile nursery worker Vincent Chan investigated with fears of more victims

Chan, a former primary school worker and karate instructor, has admitted attacking four girls as young as two as officers look into his 17 year history working with children

Events

6 d. ago Evil teacher who tortured little girls at Fornethy 'House of Horrors' school spared jail

Patricia Robertson was sentenced at the High Court in Glasgow.

Events

7 d. ago Pictured: Teenage girl, 16, killed in crash near school when minivan carrying nine youngsters collided with car

Eleanor Hague - known as Ellie - died when the white Mercedes Sprinter minibus she was in collided with a Hyundai i10 in Tadcaster on Monday night.

Events

7 d. ago Pictured: Teenage girl, 16, killed in minivan crash near school

Eleanor Hague - known as Ellie - died when the white Mercedes Sprinter minibus she was in collided white a Hyundai i10 car in Tadcaster on Monday night.

Events

7 d. ago The rise of deepfake pornography in schools: ‘One girl was so horrified she vomited’

The use of ‘nudify’ apps is becoming more and more prevalent, with hundreds of teachers having seen images created by pupils, often of their peers. The fallout is huge – and growing fast‘It worries me that it’s so normalised. He obviously wasn’t hiding it. He didn’t feel this was something he shouldn’t be doing. It was in the open and people saw it. That’s what was quite shocking.”A headteacher is describing how a teenage boy, sitting on a bus on his way home from school, casually pulled out his phone, selected a picture from social media of a girl at a neighbouring school and used a “nudifying” app to doctor her image. Continue reading...

Politics

7 d. ago Tadcaster Grammar School horror as teen girl killed in minibus crash in front of pupils

A teenage girl has died following a collision between a school minibus and a car near Tadcaster, with a woman in her 40s arrested by North Yorkshire Police

Events

8 d. ago Girl killed in crash involving minibus carrying nine teenagers near school in Tadcaster

Another girl is serious injured after the crash near Tadcaster Grammar School on Monday afternoon

Events

9 d. ago Schoolgirl, 11, wakes up locked inside school and alone in the dark after being 'forgotten' at nurse's

The girl had fallen asleep in the school's infirmary after feeling ill - and was terrified when she woke to find herself in a dark and deserted school that had closed for the weekend

Politics

1 week ago School teacher dies day after baby girl's death as tributes pour in for tragic mum

Heartbreaking tributes have poured in for teacher Aoife Bird who passed the day after her newborn baby, Ailbhe, died.

Events

1 week ago School teacher dies one day after her baby girl as tributes pour in to tragic mum

Heartbreaking tributes have poured in for a beloved school teacher who died the day after her newborn baby - this is a breaking story

Events

1 week ago What could be putting young women off marriage? It really isn’t that much of a mystery | Naoise Dolan

Survey data suggests more and more girls can’t imagine getting married, while their male counterparts are keener. That disparity holds a clueAccording to recent data, marriages in England and Wales are down by nearly 9% after a post-pandemic spike, while civil partnerships have risen by almost the same percentage. This downward trend is also reflected in the US. The Vatican has piped up in defence of the institution, releasing a 40-page doctrinal note, Una Caro (One Flesh): In Praise of Monogamy: Doctrinal Note on the Value of Marriage as an Exclusive Union and Mutual Belonging. Sworn celibates would not be my personal first port of call when seeking relationship advice, but to each their own – exclusively and indissolubly, if the Catholic church is to be believed.Among the younger crowd, gendered expectations about marriage are changing, at least according to a survey by the University of Michigan, which found that only 61% of high-school girls want to be married one day, compared ...

Politics

1 week ago One of Scotland’s fastest girls says closure of sports school will crush dreams of future stars

Fourteen-year-old Olivia Fisher - the fastest Scots girl in her age group - is facing uncertainty over plans to shut prestigious Glasgow School of Sport.

Politics

2 w. ago Schoolgirls kidnapped from Nigerian boarding school have been released, state governor says

The girls were abducted on November 17 when armed men stormed their school in Kebbi state, northwestern Nigeria

Events

2 w. ago 24 schoolgirls abducted from Kebbi in Nigeria have been rescued, president says

Nigeria's president says that all 24 schoolgirls held by assailants following a mass abduction last week from a school in Kebbi in northwestern Nigeria have been rescued

Events

2 w. ago Security fears rise in Nigeria after more than 300 schoolchildren kidnapped

Christian group revises up number of students and teachers missing after one of country’s largest mass abductionGunmen have kidnapped more than 300 students and teachers in one of the largest mass kidnappings in Nigeria, a Christian group said on Saturday, as security fears mounted in Africa’s most populous nation.The early Friday raid on St Mary’s co-educational school in Niger state in western Nigeria came after gunmen on Monday stormed a secondary school in neighbouring Kebbi state, abducting 25 girls. Continue reading...

Events

2 w. ago Gunmen abduct more than 200 schoolchildren and 12 teachers in attack on Nigerian Catholic school

Gunmen have attacked a Catholic school in Nigeria, abducting more than 200 schoolchildren and 12 teachers

Society