Alex Dolan
Alexandra Marie Dolan (born 1974) is a journalist, weather presenter and science teacher who went undercover for the documentary Undercover Teacher, produced by Allen Jewhurst.[1] For this, she was suspended from teaching for one year by the General Teaching Council with the claim that 'breached student trust'.[2] The decision has received criticism from both teachers and commentators.[3]
Early life
She was born in Cuckfield, in the Mid Sussex district of West Sussex. She has an older brother (born 1973). She grew up in Cambridge. She attended The Leys School, and studied Marine Biology at Newcastle University. Susie Fowler-Watt, a fellow presenter at Look East also came from Sussex (Uckfield) then studied at Cambridge University (Trinity Hall, Cambridge).
Career
More recently, Dolan has been employed as a presenter on Sky's Ocean TV programme Ocean Rescue.[4] Alex returned to presenting the weather on BBC Look East on 5 January 2016 following maternity leave.
See also
- Jim Bacon (weather forecaster), fellow weather forecaster on Look East
References
- ^ Lazy Students, 25 March 2009 http://www.lazystudents.org/2009/03/alex-dolan-undercover-teacher-suspended.html
- ^ https://www.theguardian.com/education/2009/mar/25/alex-dolan-guilty-dispatches
- ^ http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/simonheffer/5062999/Time-for-the-Tories-to-get-horrible.html
- ^ Alex Dolan Retrieved 22 June 2011
External links
- Use dmy dates from January 2012
- 1974 births
- Alumni of Newcastle University
- BBC weather forecasters
- British journalists
- British schoolteachers
- British whistleblowers
- British women journalists
- Dispatches (documentary series)
- Living people
- People educated at The Leys School
- People from Cambridge
- People from Cuckfield
- Television personalities from West Sussex