The QT

Tuesday 3 December 2024
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18 July 2024

Schools need more help to support pupils’ mental health

A North East behavioural psychotherapist has backed calls for a ‘whole school’ approach to help tackle mental health issues affecting the region’s children and young people. The endorsement comes after a former headteacher who installed a specialist child counsellor to support her pupils at a Northumberland school warned the new Labour government not to ‘paper …

Knowledge exchange can drive growth

You don’t have to look far to find calls for better collaboration between universities and business. The Tory Government’s 2017 Industrial Strategy placed university and business collaboration at the core of its agenda, acknowledging that businesses could access new knowledge from universities that would directly boost business performance. This culture is prevalent in STEM (science, …

Globe Gallery’s story comes full circle

The Globe Gallery has certainly been a globe-trotting gallery. Even if its ‘trotting’ has been confined to the North East, there’s a circularity about a journey that, after nearly 30 years, brings it back to the place where it all began — 97 Howard Street, North Shields. It was here that Rashida Davison’s eye alighted …

Orchestral manoeuvres in the North

There are two versions of The Proms in the popular imagination — the common (and false) perception is of bow-tied poshos waving Union Jacks while bobbing along to Land Of Hope And Glory. The less well known, but true, perception is of people seriously passionate about their music. Passionate enough, in fact, to queue up …

Lyndon Longhorne’s iron will

With typical understatement, Lyndon Longhorne calls with what he describes as ‘a little bit of news’. “Just to let you know, I’ve called it a day,” he says. “I’m retiring from swimming…but there’s a challenge on the horizon.” For someone who’s just taken the agonising decision to call time on the dream he’s had since …

A beaver safari on the Wallington estate

When so much about nature and the environment seems depressing, it’s nice to be able to report on something positive — something, moreover, that runs counter to a prevailing sense of helplessness. The ‘something’ is beavers which are gradually being reintroduced to enclosed pockets of land across England with almost instantly beneficial effect, creating wetlands …

Review: The Becoming, balletLORENT

Here’s an idea for tackling the energy crisis – find a way to connect balletLORENT to the grid. My goodness! On the evidence of this latest presentation, which leaves its dancers panting on the floor, it could power homes from, I’d guess, Heddon-on-the-Wall to Newcastle city centre. At least the dancers could take their clothes …

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