News tagged with primary education

Children can learn arithmetic faster and better

During the first two years of primary education children can learn to do arithmetic faster and better with the help of a more systematically structured educational programme. For older children, teaching arithmetic with the ...

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created Feb 06, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

School-in-a-bag reduces drop-out rates

A more flexible approach to teaching methods and better community support could reduce school drop-out in high HIV-prevalence areas in sub-Saharan Africa. Findings from a project led by London's Institute of Education and ...

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created Nov 28, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Foreign children take at least six years to learn the language used in school

There are now more and more foreign children in the classroom, and many of them speak a different language to that of their sociolinguistic environment. A study by the University of Gerona has assessed the ...

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created Sep 21, 2011 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Education programs could increase parent-child interactions in at-risk families

Parent education programs delivered through pediatric primary care offices appeared to increase parent-child interactions during infancy in at-risk families, according to a report in the January issue of Archives of Pediatrics & ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jan 03, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Urgent changes needed to prepare doctors to care for aging America

Leading physician policy experts are calling for changes in medical education policy at multiple levels to ensure that doctors are prepared to treat the country's aging adult population.

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created May 05, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Female teachers ask for work/family reconciliation to be able to access management posts

A research team made up of various Andalusian universities and coordinated by the University of Huelva (UHU) has concluded that the main barrier that these professionals encounter when accessing management ...

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created Mar 09, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Survey explores medical care for children with autism using complementary alternative medicine

In a national survey conducted by the University of Minnesota, primary care physicians report that they are more likely to ask patients with autism about complementary alternative medicine (CAM) use and desire more CAM education ...

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created Mar 12, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0