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Deregistering from school: understanding experiences and rebuilding trust
Education & Development

Deregistering from school: understanding experiences and rebuilding trust

...physical health Children’s school attendance difficulties Unsupported special educational needs School exclusion and ‘off-rolling’ No school place available. My recent article reports on UK research with 99 home-educating families. Children had originally enrolled at school and been expected to remain in mainstream formal education. For example, one parent...
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How happiness is challenging GDP as the measure of a country’s health
Society, Politics & Law

How happiness is challenging GDP as the measure of a country’s health

...physical environments and the services they can access. Comparing what different countries value can be revealing. We found that Americans, for example, report being better able to get help from the police compared with people from the UK, whereas there is a substantial difference in the other direction when it comes to accessing medical treatment. But this has a...
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Heathrow third runway: who and where will benefit?
Society, Politics & Law

Heathrow third runway: who and where will benefit?

...physically, airports have huge effects on the areas around them, but are actually quite small. Unlike most airports, Heathrow is inside London's western suburbs, rather than in the nearby countryside. On the global scale, another runway will allow Heathrow to offer more flights. However, if you’re only focusing on the total number of flights in the UK then you could...
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Social mobility isn’t just about 18-year-olds: adults need life chances too
Society, Politics & Law

Social mobility isn’t just about 18-year-olds: adults need life chances too

...physically disabled learners to the conversion of print materials into an electronic form, read out in a synthetic voice, for blind students. Demands for such support has increased in recent years, as the number of disabled students across the sector has risen. We are also experiencing far more students presenting mental health issues. My research suggested that...
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Can a space rock from Costa Rica reveal the origin of water on Earth?
Science, Maths & Technology

Can a space rock from Costa Rica reveal the origin of water on Earth?

...Physical Sciences, explores different types of meteorites which have landed across our planet...Fifty years ago, a meteorite crashed near the Murchison village in Victoria, Australia. What lay upon the ground was 100kg of dark scorched rock, emitting fumes akin to methylated spirits. It was identified as a very special type of meteorite, having once been part of a rocky...
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Phobos – an asteroid masquerading as a moon of Mars?
Science, Maths & Technology

Phobos – an asteroid masquerading as a moon of Mars?

...Physical Sciences, looks at Phobos - one of Mars' moons and how space agencies are going to investigate its composition...Mars might be smaller than our own planet Earth, but it hosts two moons as opposed to one. These are Phobos and Deimos and are the only other moons in the inner Solar System, yet remarkedly little is known about them. The existence of Phobos and Deimos...
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Strange job: being Queen Elizabeth II, Britain’s longest reigning monarch
Society, Politics & Law

Strange job: being Queen Elizabeth II, Britain’s longest reigning monarch

...Physically, she has been seen to be more accessible to the people than ever before. “I have to be seen to be believed,” she notably told her biographer. And it has been an unending succession of public openings, memorials and other ceremonials, not only in the UK, but in all corners of the world. Part of the power in working so hard, is that the Queen has served...
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Influential women scientists in chemistry
Science, Maths & Technology

Influential women scientists in chemistry

...Physics in 1903 with her husband Pierre Curie for their studies on the radiation phenomena discovered by Professor Henri Becquerel. In 1911 she won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the discovery and study of the elements radium and polonium. These discoveries and further work at the Curie Institute in Paris developed the technique of implanting a small radioactive...
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