Policymakers globally have responded to the COVID-19 pandemic with tough measures. As a result of the risk and uncertainty caused by the virus, economic activity has contracted, hitting firms and workers whose activities ...
Social Sciences
May 20, 2020
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One in seven of all children in England have a social worker at some stage during their schooling and are behind educationally by at least 30 percent by the age of 16 compared to their peers, according to new research published ...
Education
Apr 27, 2020
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In primary and secondary school, pupils in the same class might differ substantially in age. Such differences are due to the distance between a student's birthdate and the cutoff date (i.e., the date that determines the academic ...
Education
Mar 19, 2020
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Newly qualified teachers report higher levels of wellbeing and life satisfaction compared to other graduates, but are more likely to say hard work in Britain is unrewarded, according to UCL research.
Education
Mar 6, 2020
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A landmark study into youth crime is launching a new phase to better understand how experience of offending in childhood impacts on later life.
Social Sciences
Nov 19, 2019
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The latest prototype of the AstroPlant citizen science project has gotten the green light for production. AstroPlant is a desktop greenhouse that allows people to collect data on potential crops to grow in space.
Space Exploration
Oct 16, 2019
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Climate change is one of the most pressing issues facing our society today, so you would think it would be an important topic for study in the school curriculum.
Environment
Sep 19, 2019
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In the Netherlands approximately 130 out of 700 secondary schools offer a bilingual stream. However, research about CLIL (content and language integrated learning) is limited. With her dissertation Evelyn van Kampen (Ph.D. ...
Education
Aug 12, 2019
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Across the world, schools are introducing programmes aimed at enhancing the well-being of students and helping them flourish. Such programmes aim to teach students how to cultivate positive emotions and relationships, find ...
Social Sciences
Jul 9, 2019
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The positive effects of a rich home learning environment during a child's early years continue into adolescence and help improve test scores later in life, according to a new study published in School Effectiveness and School ...
Education
Jul 8, 2019
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