The Inspiring youth Awards were launched in February 2007 by the Recruiting Department in conjunction with the South Yorkshire Black Police Association, the award is aimed at young ethnic minority people aged 13 to 17 year old from our local communities, encouraging them to become leaders and do well in their studies whatever that might be.

 

The results of the pilot proved very positive showing the huge commitment, enthusiasm and dedication that our young people achieved whilst working towards this award.

It’s 5.30 am and everywhere is enveloped in darkness. My alarm goes off. I grudgingly turn around; about to switch off the loud rings disrupting my sleep until it hits me. Today is Monday. Work beckons. Against my will, I get up and prepare for another day, another week of long distance commuting, long hours at work, social activities, short sleeping hours, and all the pressures that comes with it.

“It’s hard to believe that what would now be a crime against humanity was legal at the time…I believe that the bicentenary offers us a chance…to express our deep sorrow that it ever happened, that it could ever have happened and to rejoice at the different and better times we live in today.”

--Tony Blair

Sunday November 26

 

Birmingham is the UK’s second largest city, home-town to Jamelia, Cat Deeley, Ozzy Osbourne, and my second home and place of study: the University of Birmingham.

As Britain becomes increasingly culturally diverse, the government is recognising the need for a more tolerant society. Often one hears the words, “Britain is multicultural but not tolerant” Whilst this remains a constant hindrance to Britain’s progress, there is a tendency for the government and wider society to tackle intolerance by adopting and adapting policies to clearly defined discriminated groups. In recent years, the Home Office has released a number of manuals to police forces, schools and employers on creating social acceptance of recognised communities and individuals. This is a prerequisite for the harmonized society that the government is attempting to construct, but it only scratches the surface. Whilst society may become more tolerant of certain social groupings, the problem of creating open-mindedness to differing beliefs, creeds, values and opinions is a result of ridding society of socially earmarked prejudices. But this assumption coupled with the survival of the age-old Not In My Backyard (NIMBY) attitude embedded in British behaviour has allowed bigotry to prevail.

 

Viewed as one of the most talented contemporary literature authors in recent years, Maya Angelou overcame troubled beginnings to find international acclaim with the publication of I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings in 1970.

Being able to write a good, concise, coherent well-argued essay is a basic skill that every person needs throughout their life. An essay has 3 main parts: an introduction, middle and a conclusion. If you ensure each paragraph of an essay is a microcosm of the essay as a whole, it stays relevant to the question. This means that every paragraph should have also have a mini intro-middle-conclusion structure. This is a condensed version of a system that I use because it gets great results.

Martin Luther King once said, “We are indebted to half of the world before we finish breakfast” However, this may no longer be the case with the growing popularity of Fairtrade products.

OHMYGOD! You have a whole load of revision to do, time is ticking away – your heart is ticking faster and you meant to start earlier but you didn’t and now you are in serious trouble. Why do we do it to ourselves every time? And how come all the others who make out that they ‘seriously know nothing’ actually do know plenty.

Fed up with the lack of alternative activities for under-18s in your community? Then maybe it’s time to do something about it. Ed Walker takes a look at what a group of teenagers from Wimbledon have achieved