Alexandra Marie Dolan is a journalist, weather presenter and
science
Science is a systematic endeavor that Scientific method, builds and organizes knowledge in the form of Testability, testable explanations and predictions about the universe.
Science may be as old as the human species, and some of the earli ...
teacher
A teacher, also called a schoolteacher or formally an educator, is a person who helps students to acquire knowledge, competence, or virtue, via the practice of teaching.
''Informally'' the role of teacher may be taken on by anyone (e.g. whe ...
who went
undercover
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for the 2005
Channel 4
Channel 4 is a British free-to-air public broadcast television network operated by the state-owned Channel Four Television Corporation. It began its transmission on 2 November 1982 and was established to provide a fourth television service ...
documentary ''
Undercover Teacher
''Undercover Teacher'' is a 2005 documentary in the Dispatches (TV series), Dispatches series for Channel 4, in which Alex Dolan, a journalist and science teacher, went undercover journalism, undercover for six months as a Substitute teacher, supp ...
''.
[Lazy Students, 25 March 2009 http://www.lazystudents.org/2009/03/alex-dolan-undercover-teacher-suspended.html ] For this, she was suspended from teaching for one year by the
General Teaching Council with the claim that she had 'breached student trust'. The decision has received criticism from both teachers and commentators.
Early life
Dolan was born in
Cuckfield, in the
Mid Sussex district of
West Sussex
West Sussex is a county in South East England on the English Channel coast. The ceremonial county comprises the shire districts of Adur, Arun, Chichester, Horsham, and Mid Sussex, and the boroughs of Crawley and Worthing. Covering an ...
. She has an older brother. After growing up in
Cambridge
Cambridge ( ) is a College town, university city and the county town in Cambridgeshire, England. It is located on the River Cam approximately north of London. As of the 2021 United Kingdom census, the population of Cambridge was 145,700. Cam ...
she attended
The Leys School
The Leys School is a co-educational independent school in Cambridge, England. It is a day and boarding school for about 574 pupils between the ages of eleven and eighteen, and a member of the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference.
Histo ...
, an independent school in Cambridge and
Cambridge Centre for Sixth-form Studies, and studied Marine Biology at
Newcastle University. In 2019, Dolan moved from Norwich to Cromer.
Career
Dolan presented the 2005 Channel 4 documentary ''Undercover Teacher''.
She was a presenter on Sky's Ocean TV programme ''Ocean Rescue'' in 2008.
Alex Dolan
Retrieved 22 June 2011 She returned to presenting the weather on BBC Look East on 5 January 2016 following maternity leave.
See also
* Jim Bacon (weather forecaster)
James Dale Bacon (born 22 June 1950) is a British television weather forecaster, who appeared on national forecasts (BBC1) in the 1980s, with his distinct East Anglian accent. After leaving the BBC he took over as a Design and Technology techni ...
, fellow weather forecaster on ''Look East''
References
External links
Dispatches
Alumni of Newcastle University
BBC weather forecasters
British journalists
Schoolteachers from Sussex
British whistleblowers
British women journalists
Dispatches (TV programme)
Living people
People educated at The Leys School
People from Cambridge
People from Cuckfield
Television personalities from West Sussex
Year of birth missing (living people)
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