In a community centre in a deprived London suburb—surrounded by old computers and tangled leads—volunteers take their screwdrivers to the piles of donated equipment.
Education
Feb 18, 2021
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Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, communities living in cities need cleaner air to breathe and outdoor public space to be social yet physically distanced.
Social Sciences
Oct 23, 2020
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The multi-disciplinary Excluded Lives Research Team, led by Professor Harry Daniels and Associate Professor Ian Thompson from the University of Oxford, has today (5/10/2020), launched three new reports with recommendations ...
Education
Oct 07, 2020
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South Asia accounted for nearly two-fifths of the world's poor, nearly half of the world's malnourished children and was home to the largest number of stunted children in 2015. Despite this, the region had made significant ...
Economics & Business
Oct 06, 2020
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New research, examining how parents choose secondary schools, questions England's 'success rate' for admissions and suggests the 'good news' revealed today may not tell the full story. Researchers believe the system could, ...
Education
Jun 11, 2020
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Children face a worrying threefold increase in air pollution during the daily school runs, causing air quality experts to call for restrictions on the use of cars during those periods.
Environment
Apr 21, 2020
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Only 1.8 percent of West Virginia public school students are identified "gifted," or having intellectual abilities higher than average. That's well below the national average of 6 percent, according to the National Association ...
Education
Oct 30, 2019
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Californian firefighters on Friday battled a fast-moving wildfire north of Los Angeles as further evacuation orders were issued after 40,000 residents were already told to flee their homes.
Environment
Oct 25, 2019
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Retired union organizer Anna Burger lives by a busy road just a minute's walk from a metro station in the US capital Washington, but every morning she wakes up to a birdsong symphony.
Ecology
Aug 04, 2019
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Tens of thousands of tourists and locals gaped skyward Tuesday as a total eclipse of the sun darkened the heavens over Chile and Argentina.
Space Exploration
Jul 02, 2019
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