Tag: mobile phones

UK teenagers would respect a tech break but are concerned about safety if the UK banned mobile phones in schools

Stuart Mitchell

Yubo, has found that  92% of UK teenagers wouldn’t feel safe travelling to school without their mobile.  Yubo’s poll of over 10,000 Gen Zers aged 13 to 25 looked at students’ opinion on the potential Mobile Phone Ban for English Schools following claims that mobiles can have a damaging effect on mental health and wellbeing when misused or overused.   When it comes to how Gen Zers daily phone habits at school, nearly half (47.8%) say they only use their phones during breaks and never in class, 18.1% say they…

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UK teenagers would respect a tech break but are concerned about safety if UK schools ban mobile phones

Stuart Mitchell

Yubo, the leading platform for Gen Z to socialise online, has found that  92% of UK teenagers wouldn’t feel safe travelling to school without their mobile.  Yubo’s poll of over 10,000 Gen Zers aged 13 to 25 looked at students’ opinion on the potential Mobile Phone Ban for English Schools following claims that mobiles can have a damaging effect on mental health and wellbeing when misused or overused.  Many students aren’t aware of the proposal from Education Secretary Gavin Williamson, with 61.1% of GenZers revealing they haven’t heard about the…

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Top LA directors show dangers of using mobiles while driving

Stuart Mitchell

The directors behind the video for Pharrell Williams’ hit song Happy have teamed up with THINK! for its latest road safety campaign, aimed at cutting the numbers of people killed or injured by drivers using mobile phones. ‘We Are From LA’ directed the new video, which will run online, in cinemas and on social media from 25 October 2017. It uses innovative filming, is shot in the style of a music video with an edgy soundtrack from celebrated musician Aphex Twin and numerous pink kittens to highlight how much drivers…

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