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. w ...

who went

undercover To go "undercover" (that is, to go on an undercover operation) is to avoid detection by the object of one's observation, and especially to disguise one's own identity (or use an assumed identity) for the purposes of gaining the trust of an ind ...

for the 2005

Channel 4 Channel 4 is a British free-to-air public broadcast television network operated by the state-owned enterprise, state-owned Channel Four Television Corporation. It began its transmission on 2 November 1982 and was established to provide a four ...

documentary ''

Undercover Teacher ''Undercover Teacher'' is a 2005 documentary in the Dispatches series for Channel 4, in which Alex Dolan, a journalist and science teacher, went undercover for six months as a supply teacher in British schools. ''Undercover Teacher'' was in ...

''.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 Cuckfield ( ) is a village and civil parish in the Mid Sussex District of West Sussex, England, on the southern slopes of the Weald. It lies south of London, north of Brighton, and east northeast of the county town of Chichester. Nearby town ...

, 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 a ...

. She has an older brother. After growing up in

Cambridge Cambridge ( ) is a 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. Cambridge beca ...

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. Hist ...

, an independent school in Cambridge and

Cambridge Centre for Sixth-form Studies The Cambridge Centre for Sixth-form Studies (CCSS) was an independent sixth-form college for boarding and day students aged 15 to 19. The college, which was founded in 1980, owned teaching and residential accommodation in the centre of Cambridg ...

, and studied Marine Biology at

Newcastle University Newcastle University (legally the University of Newcastle upon Tyne) is a UK public research university based in Newcastle upon Tyne, North East England. It has overseas campuses in Singapore and Malaysia. The university is a red brick unive ...

. 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.

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