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| − | <div class="body "><p>George Entwistle, the BBC Director-General, admitted that a Newsnight investigation into sex abuse carried out by Jimmy Savile while he worked at the Corporation should never have been dropped.</p><p>And today David Cameron today announced the Director of Public Prosecutions, Keir Starmer, would launch an into the failure to prosecute Savile over allegations of child abuse while he was alive.</p><p>Meanwhile Conservative MP Sir Roger Gale has become the first politician to suggest may have to resign over the scandal. </p><p>At yesterday's House of Commons hearing, he was accused by MPs of displaying "an extraordinary lack of curiosity" in the Savile case as he claimed he only learnt of the Newsnight story while eating at an event in a London hotel. "It was a busy lunch – I didn't want to show undue interest," he told the Select Committee on Culture,christian louboutin, Media and Sport.</p><p>It emerged yesterday that Liz Mackean, one of two BBC journalists working on the Savile investigation, believed the story was quashed after Peter Rippon, the editor of Newsnight, questioned whether the witnesses were really victims. She claimed in an email leaked to Channel 4 News that he told her "the girls were teenagers, not too young … they weren't the worst kind of sexual offences".</p><p>Mr Entwistle informed MPs that two of his senior colleagues – the director of news, Helen Boaden, and her deputy, Stephen Mitchell – had spoken to Peter Rippon, the editor of Newsnight, about the Savile story prior to his decision to halt the investigation. Ms Boaden warned Mr Rippon there should be no "skimping on standards" in the quality of the journalism because Savile was dead,gucci outlet.</p><p>The Director-General told the committee he was "very disappointed" in Mr Rippon for producing an inaccurate blog about his decision not to run the story, which the BBC published on its website on 2 October. He revealed that the blog – which has been the subject of a prominent correction – was seen ahead of publication by Mr Mitchell.</p><p>In a series of critical comments about the Newsnight editor – who has been made to stand aside pending an internal BBC inquiry – Mr Entwistle was scathing of Mr Rippon's email to journalists that said the Savile story was based on evidence from "just the women". The Director-General said: "The phrase, on the face of it, is not the least defensible."</p><p>Mr Entwistle was asked about claims that a paedophile ring was active at the BBC, but said that while he had heard of allegations, it was a matter for the police to investigate. Scotland Yard's Operation Yewtree into sex abuse relating to Savile is following more than 400 lines of inquiry.</p><p>Yesterday's gruelling two-hour session was a painful experience for Mr Entwistle, who began work as Director-General less than six weeks ago. Much of his time in the post has been taken up with firefighting the Savile scandal, which was prompted by an ITV documentary on 3 October containing allegations that the former Jim'll Fix It host was a predatory paedophile. MPs were incredulous yesterday that Mr Entwistle still appeared to have very limited knowledge of the detail of what had happened.</p><p>He recalled his brief exchange with Ms Boaden over Savile in 2011 which, ironically, took place at a lunch for the equal opportunities group Women in Film &,louboutin; Television. He said she told him: "I wanted to tell you that Newsnight are looking at Jimmy Savile and if it comes off, if it stands up, it may have an impact on your Christmas schedule."</p><p>Mr Entwistle, who was the BBC's director of vision at the time,chanel borse, was planning to broadcast tributes to Savile, who had died weeks earlier. But he never asked Ms Boaden about the substance of the Newsnight investigation – even though he said it was ",gucci uk;relatively rare" for her to give him such a "heads up",borsa louis vuitton;. He told the committee: "We never spoke about it again – I inferred the decision had been taken not to go ahead.",ghd straighteners; On 28 December, the BBC broadcast a glowing tribute show – for which Entwistle had responsibility – called How's About That Then?</p><p>John Whittingdale, the chairman of the committee, accused the Director-General – who is himself a former editor of Newsnight – of showing "an extraordinary lack of curiosity". Mr Entwistle repeatedly stressed that he had not wanted to ask any questions which "could be construed as pressure".</p><p>Mr Entwistle admitted that "perhaps I was being over-sensitive" in his degree of caution. But after he struggled to provide details of the number of BBC staff under investigation for alleged sexual abuse and harassment, the head of Britain's biggest news organisation was mocked by Philip Davies, the Tory MP.</p><p>"It appears your determination not to show undue interest applies to absolutely everything at the BBC," he said to loud laughter,ray ban sunglasses. Mr Entwistle was also accused of sounding "a bit like James Murdoch", a reference to the News Corp executive's limited answers at a hearing into hacking.</p><p>Mr Entwistle said the scandal raised questions of trust. He told MPs: "There's no question that what Jimmy Savile did and the way the BBC behaved – the culture and practices of the BBC seemed to allow Jimmy Savile to do what he did – will raise questions of trust for us and reputation for us."</p><p>The BBC issued a statement saying: "As a result of the allegations about Jimmy Savile and subsequent contact from staff, former staff and members of the public,ray ban, we are currently aware of nine allegations of sexual harassment, assault or inappropriate conduct regarding current staff or contributors. Some of these cases have been passed to the police where appropriate."</p><p>Mark Thompson, the BBC's DG at the time the Newsnight investigation was dropped, offered to give evidence to the committee. Mr Thompson wrote to Rob Wilson MP to say he was "never formally notified about the Newsnight investigation". He had two brief conversations about the story but had no part in the decision not to run it.</p><p><u><strong>The fallout: What has this done to key players’ reputations?</strong></u></p><p><strong>George Entwistle</strong></p><p>With the BBC in need of leadership the DG needs to get a grip. Poor performance before MPs. He looks negligent for not ensuring Savile tributes were justified. Damaged.</p><p><strong>Helen Boaden</strong></p><p>The director of news must explain why she didn’t give Entwistle more warning in their lunchtime talk, and . Vulnerable.</p><p><strong>Stephen Mitchell</strong></p><p>The popular deputy director of news is being sucked in. He spoke to Rippon about the investigation and read his inaccurate blog before it was published. Questions to answer.</p><p><strong>Peter Rippon</strong></p><p>After inexplicably dropping the story, the Newsnight editor, criticised by the DG for his innaccurate blog, seems doomed without remarkable new evidence for Pollard review. History.</p><p><strong>Mark Thompson</strong></p><p>After leaving the BBC on a high to take over at the New York Times Company,louboutin, the former DG’s time at the top is suddenly tarnished. A very unwelcome distraction.</p></div>
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Isn't it time we questioned why hours and hours of a young person's week is taken up by something few enjoy and which, it seems, doesn't even enhance their education?</p><p>Professor Susan Hallam, of the Institute of Education, University of London, investigated all studies on homework for the past 75 years and came to a conclusion that homework accounts for less than 4 per cent of the differences in teen students' scores. Professor Hallam found that while homework can enhance examination results (a tiny bit), its impact is relatively small compared with students' prior knowledge in a particular subject.</p><p>Professor Hallam also points out that homework can lead to family friction, especially when families are pressuring children to succeed. Children or teenagers can be badly mentally affected by extreme pressure put on them, which adults are sometimes unaware of and is counterproductive as well as horrible for the student.</p><p>If it seems that the idea of abolishing homework belongs in some trendy, hippie school, the head teacher of Tiffin School, one of the top grammar schools in the country, would disagree. He has reduced homework to a maximum of 40 minutes per night �C and says he wishes he could get rid of it altogether. I wish my London comprehensive school would do the same.</p><p>Homework causes anxiety and stress, it leaves the student very little time to spend with family and other things (Tiffin students are encouraged to use their extra time to watch documentaries or do sport or music). It can sometimes make students actively less enthusiastic about learning because it is being forced upon them and it closes students' minds and timetables in such ways that make them less creative.</p><p>People say that young people should not take their youth for granted and should seize the advantages of a youthful mind while they have one. Homework limits a young person's ability to do this.</p><p>Children are more creative than adults. Many people dislike how the creativity of childhood fades away with age,gucci bags, so children's ideas and activities should be encouraged. Perhaps if they are, then adults in the future will be more open-minded and more likely to follow their own ideas and ambitions in life. Learning is not just about exam results.</p><p>Homework gives children with stable homes and plenty of support an unfair advantage. In school hours, pupils have the same opportunities and circumstances. But setting homework is asking a student to complete a task, whatever conditions they live in, whatever the attitude of their family and how much help they they can expect to get, or their economic situation. An alternative to setting homework would be setting the work to be done independently at school,chanel, where everyone is in the same environment. Homework can cause a child to work for extremely long time in a day, in addition to their time at school. A labour rights movement in 1833 caused a law to be passed that children aged 9 to 13 could not work more than eight hours a day. Of course, students work for education and not to be paid, but a student's school day with several pieces of homework can add up to at least eight hours of work.</p><p>It can be argued that homework increases a student's ability to work independently,christian louboutin sale, but there is just as much of a chance that a student will complete a piece of work without help at school as there is at home.</p><p>"Teachers and schools should make a judgement about whether it's important in relation to the learning needs of particular groups of students," Professor Susan Hallam says.</p><p>Professor Dylan Wiliam, deputy director of the Institute of Education, says: "Getting pupils to do homework is an incredibly expensive and generally unproductive public relations exercise. Schools push homework because they think parents like it, but most schools don't plan homework well enough for it to be worth doing. This is not to say that homework cannot be good,ray ban, just that most of it currently isn't."</p><p>The little proven positive impact homework has on someone's life is outweighed by the negative impact and has a lot less meaning in a student's education that many people may think. I would like to see a world where children and adolescents are happy and appreciate the precious period of youth. People say that youth is wasted on the young. I think young people are wasted on homework.</p><p><strong>Kieran Larkin, principal of ARK Kings Academy, Birmingham</strong></p><p>The argument about whether homework is worthwhile has raged since I was at school. It's true that homework given without a clear purpose can be confusing and sometimes demotivating for students. I remember one of my own children in Year 3 being given a piece of homework which was "write a story". His first reaction was to ask my wife and I what he should write about.</p><p>Of course, we wanted him to come up with something and despite several attempts to link it back to what he had been doing in class he (and we!) remained unsure whether that was what the teacher wanted. He duly spent a good chunk of a Sunday afternoon doing it and handed it in.</p><p>Being interested in whether he (or we!) had done it right we asked a few days later how it had been received. It turned out the teacher had not commented on it and it was never marked, so none of us were any the wiser and my son's faith in the utility of homework slipped down several notches.</p><p>That's not to say, however, that homework does not have a place or a purpose, but if it is given it needs to be done with purpose and teachers need to make clear to the students what that purpose is. This is never going to be a popular topic with students and so teachers need to be clear why it is issued and why it is important.</p><p>So what can homework achieve that can't be achieved in the classroom? First, it's important to create an independent work ethic. Success at and beyond school requires students to get used to problem solving and persevering with extended pieces of work without support from their teachers. There is a huge difference between solving an equation,louboutin sale, doing a translation or writing or deconstructing a piece of prose in a lesson after you have just discussed it, and doing it alone in the library or your room a day or a week later using your own knowledge and skills.</p><p>Homework is a way to learn practical research skills: using the library, devising questionnaires or interviews and conducting online searches. (Not just accepting the first Google hit as a universal truth.) Whether students intend to study beyond school or not these are essential �C and enriching �C skills for later life.</p><p>Third, homework provides challenge. Having to solve a problem to bring to the next lesson enables students to demonstrate understanding and teachers to assess its depth or identify any gaps. It also provides time to practise. Homework provides time to embed the things that are useful to learn by rote, such as timestables, vocabulary,ghd hair straighteners, spelling, irregular verbs and handwriting.</p><p>Lastly, well thought-through homework provides uninterrupted time for a student to make sense of their own understanding at their own pace.</p><p>So what should schools and students do to make it worthwhile? It's not about the length of time spent on it,louboutin shoes. It's about using the time spent on it for a reason.</p><p>Ensure variety. If you want to maintain interest in your subject it needs to be engaging in the first place,ghd sale. Avoid homework that is "finishing off class work" �C that rather implies it should have been better managed in the class by the teacher. The teacher should indicate the length, content and presentational style required �C so that students know how it will be assessed. Collect homework in on time and use it as part of the lesson or as soon as possible, so that you value its completion and demonstrate its importance.</p><p>Schools should communicate a clear timetable to staff, students and parents and stick to it so students are not overly burdened on any particular day. Staff forgetting its homework is disruptive and a bad example to students. Issue homework planners and post them on the web so that parents can see them.</p><p>Ensure that the school has a consistent response to logging the completion of homework and any sanctions for not completing it. At ARK Kings Academy it is a part of the home-school agreement that students,ghd, parents and I, as principal, sign at the start of the year.</p><p>When setting homework, the teacher should create time in the lesson to record it and clarify what needs to be done. A hurriedly set assignment at the end of the lesson is more likely to be undone or done badly.</p><p>Lastly �C always show that you value the work you are asking students to do. Collect it at the agreed time, mark it quickly and thoroughly. Use the work to provide feedback to the student and the class what has been done well. Shape the next lesson to plug gaps, address any misconceptions or extend the standard/ challenge of the work for students.</p></div>
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