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Can rabies be eliminated from Asia by 2020?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Can rabies be eliminated from Asia by 2020?

...centre, where they will be sterilised and have their ears clipped so they can be identified as having undergone the surgery. They will be vaccinated, then returned to their home on the streets. “What people need to understand,” says Vijay Kumar, manager of the CUPA centre, “is that the Animal Birth Control program is as much about human welfare as it is for dogs.”...
Reviewing science funding
Science, Maths & Technology

Reviewing science funding

...research with microscope ] Scientists in the UK breathed a sigh of relief when chancellor George Osborne announced that the science budget – which had been threatened with cuts – will in fact be protected in real terms over the next four years. He also announced that the innovation budget will be frozen, but only in cash terms, which should nevertheless give...
Principles and practices of peace education
Education & Development

Principles and practices of peace education

...centre of the layered model of peace that you learnt about in Session 1. Some children will need particular help with their wellbeing, and for many there are wider family or structural issues, such as poverty, that impact upon them, but managing your own emotional state and being able to respond empathetically to others, is a foundation for building positive relationships...
About the stroop test
Education & Development

About the stroop test

...name the body of the animal. Research conducted using this task has found that children experience the same pattern of difficulties with the animal-stroop task that adults have with the coloured word Stroop task. To find out more about inhibitory control, you can read an extract from the Open University's Child Development course (ED209), executive functions in childhood....
Postgraduate study: Education, Childhood & Youth
Education & Development

Postgraduate study: Education, Childhood & Youth

...children and young people or are a teacher thinking about taking your learning to the next level? Or you might simply want to know more about research and how you can take your research interest further. On this page we have brought together a number of courses that look at aspects of postgraduate study including what it is like to study online, the skills needed at...
Should we test drugs on pregnant women?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Should we test drugs on pregnant women?

...children. “If we did a better job of researching drugs in pregnancy before we approved them, we would have been able to avoid the thalidomide crisis,” Little says. “The lessons we learn from the past aren’t always the right lessons.” Denying pregnant women access to clinical trials also leaves doctors in the dark about how to treat expectant mothers who do fall...
How can a genetic mutation shared by many Brazilians help in the fight against cancer?
Health, Sports & Psychology

How can a genetic mutation shared by many Brazilians help in the fight against cancer?

...Research Fund in London, and coincidentally at exactly the same time by three other groups working independently in the USA and France, and led by Arnold Levine, Lloyd Old and Pierre May. p53 is a tumour suppressor. Its job is to protect us from cancer by making sure that, when our cells divide as part of routine growth and maintenance of our bodies, they do so without...
Learning to teach: making sense of learning to teach
Education & Development

Learning to teach: making sense of learning to teach

...research about students' experiences of learning to teach and considers the implications of this in designing teacher education programmes...This free course, Making sense of learning to teach, is the first of four courses which comprise the course Learning to teach. It draws on what we know about how people learn to become teachers. It explores the different approaches...