Lower GCSE grades for children in families relying on food banks
Children living with long-term poverty and whose families rely on food banks are more likely to achieve lower GCSE grades, finds a report co-authored by UCL researchers.
Children living with long-term poverty and whose families rely on food banks are more likely to achieve lower GCSE grades, finds a report co-authored by UCL researchers.
Social Sciences
May 25, 2023
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From the start of the pandemic, the general population faced several fears amidst the rising death toll, business shutdowns, circulating virus, and overall uncertainty of the future. At the same time, the federal government ...
Social Sciences
May 23, 2023
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Earth Sciences
May 17, 2023
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Social Sciences
May 11, 2023
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Social Sciences
May 8, 2023
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Plants & Animals
May 5, 2023
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Black mothers are the canaries in the coal mine when it comes to the mental and physical harms of stress from living with gun violence in America.
Social Sciences
May 3, 2023
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Spain recently adopted a menstrual leave policy, which makes additional (paid or unpaid) days off work available to "only and all cisgender women."
Social Sciences
Apr 28, 2023
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Environment
Apr 26, 2023
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A giant panda on long-term loan from China died in a zoo in northern Thailand on Wednesday, six months before she was due to return home, officials from the Chiang Mai Zoo said.
Plants & Animals
Apr 19, 2023
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