Exam board criticised for Jewish prejudice question

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-18207323

An exam board was criticized for one of its GCSE’s. Candidates were asked to explain “why some people are prejudiced against Jews”. The board tries to defends their choice by stating that they did not want to offend anyone, merely wanted students to explain and give an account of Holocaust and prejudice against Jews. Not in any case did the exam board want to offend Judaism. Students knew what was asked of them and made clear they understood the question. Exam board AQA still needs to justify their choice and explain, a follow-up action will be taken if appropriate, says exam regulator Ofqual.

In my opinion people reacted to strongly to a simple question which had the sole purpose of making students think about the subject. No wrong was intended and the question in itself was not stated incorrectly either. Student even came up with the right answer, so no harm no foul.

Nottingham detective Trevor Gray found guilty of rape

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-nottinghamshire-18270835

A jury found Detective Sergeant Trevor Gray guilty of raping a woman after a night out. Mr Gray drank several alcoholic beverages with the victim and after that she went to grab a taxi to  go to her house, when exiting the cab she recalls being shocked to see Mr Gray getting out of the cab too. She does not recall leaving the bar, but she does recall the horrifying image of Mr Gray raping her. The detective denies raping the woman and says he even “fell back into trained police officer mode” when she did not answer his texts. He claims she consented in having sex with him. Mr Gray is in custody and awaiting sentencing on Thursday.

To make an accurate judgment of Mr Gray being falsely accused or actually having raped the woman one needs more information besides the tainted version of the article. This generally proclaims that Mr.Gray is guilty of rape and was full of the standard excuses. Physical evidence should be taken into account, as well as the statements of the victim and alleged rapist.

THE number of young adults in their mid-30s still living with their parents has rocketed to THREE MILLION

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/politics/4345777/1-in-3-men-age-20-34-still-live-with-parents-and-1-in-6-women-stuck-too-as-house-prices-blamed.html

About 1.8 million men and 1.1 million women up until the age of 30 still live at their family home because they either never left of they had to or wanted to move back in. These numbers have sky rocketed because people did not move out. Reasons are high costs, traditional family values and, especially men, do not want to settle down. A large factor in people still living at their parents is that owning a home is almost unaffordable to most people these days, the housing crisis and not enough fairly priced houses are causing difficulty in obtaining a suitable house for young people.

The housing crisis and the lack of  suitable houses for people up to 30 years of age cause the economy to be brought to a halt. Building affordable houses for younger people is much better for the economy because young people invest in their future and in the current economy when buying appliances, furniture, DIY supplies etc.

Diabetes timebomb: Only half of NHS patients receiving acceptable care

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/health-news/diabetes-timebomb-only-half-of-nhs-patients-receiving-acceptable-care-7778659.html

Variation in care standards cause people with diabetes to be at a higher risk of sustaining serious complications and even death. Approximately 24000 people in England die every year because they have not received the necessary health checks. Some primary care trust have very few patients that were given the basic tests in order to diminish the risks of diabetes. None of the PCT’s performed the basic tests and the recommended ones.  Less than one in five patients are supervised and medicated adequately for them to not suffer from diabetes related ailments. Tthe amount of money spent on all costs preventing diabetes was not well spent  judging by the rise in the number of patients.

Comment:

Cuts on health care budget is always tricky, because on one hand government is trying to cuts costs but inadvertently cause a rise  in spendings because failing to monitor the condition of patients will eventually harm them and  will cost society even more money. So the opposite of the objective is achieved, society loses even more money.