Policy-makers urged to heed lessons in new handbook
01 April 2010The teaching of literacy and language skills, both in the UK and overseas, needs significant reform to curb the "unproductive" effects of government standardisation, a...
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The teaching of literacy and language skills, both in the UK and overseas, needs significant reform to curb the "unproductive" effects of government standardisation, a...
The way that drugs used to treat mental illness are advertised to doctors could be helping to perpetuate - rather than break down - the...
The planning obligations which local authorities impose on private developers are successfully raising billions of pounds for local infrastructure and making vital contributions towards roads,...
Scientists from Cambridge, London and Melbourne have found the first ever evidence that tyrannosaur dinosaurs existed in the southern continents. They identified a hip bone...
Why do some people with mental illnesses entertain bizarre and seemingly irrational beliefs that make their lives a misery?
Two experimental systems at the forefront of modern physics research - a single trapped ion and a quantum atomic gas - have been combined for...
A team of scientists from Cambridge and Sweden have discovered a molecule that can prevent a toxic protein involved Alzheimer's disease from building up in...
Focussing too much on the present and not using past experience to make decisions could be linked to suicide in elderly depressed adults, researchers from...
Mother birds communicate with their developing chicks before they even hatch by leaving them messages in the egg, new research by a team from the...
The Cretaceous-Tertiary mass extinction, which wiped out the dinosaurs and more than half of species on Earth, was caused by an asteroid colliding with Earth...