A joint research team of psychologists from the University of Sussex and the London School of Economics may have found a highly effective way to help school students from low-income families improve their academic grades. ...
Education
Jun 6, 2019
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The upper echelons of British society are filled with graduates from elite universities. These universities are, in turn, disproportionately full of students from wealthier backgrounds, many of whom went to private school. ...
Social Sciences
Apr 2, 2019
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Everyone's family background has affected them, for better or worse. In the UK today, it is difficult for young people to get a good job, and this means that families are having to provide more support for young people. In ...
Social Sciences
Nov 1, 2018
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How people respond to the same situation can - at least in part - be explained by their cultural background. An often used framework to understand cross-cultural differences in how people feel, think and behave in social ...
Social Sciences
Oct 10, 2017
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Climbing the economic ladder depends on personality traits as well as financial and social background according to research from the University of Aberdeen.
Social Sciences
Apr 20, 2017
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Six out of ten people in Britain today consider themselves working class because they believe their family background determines class rather than occupation or whether they went to university. Just under half (47%) of those ...
Social Sciences
Jul 1, 2016
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Investigators can now probe Twitter, Facebook and other social media sites as a part of background checks for security clearances—something that lawmakers said Friday was a classic case of the government playing catch-up ...
Security
May 13, 2016
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The OECD has just given the world an F when it comes to using computers to improve educational outcomes in schools and to give teenagers the digital skills they will increasingly need in life. In a report released this week ...
Social Sciences
Sep 18, 2015
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The growth of ride-hailing companies such as Uber and Lyft so far has not been hindered by limits from government regulators and campaigns by taxi cab competitors. A bigger threat to the new industry's impressive start could ...
Business
Dec 10, 2014
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Facebook is taking aim at people who are using the social network or Instagram photo-sharing platform to sell guns.
Internet
Mar 5, 2014
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