USDA sets guidelines for more fruit and vegetables in school lunches

US school children, accustomed to a diet of pizza and hot dogs, will find healthier food on their trays under new government rules The new US Department of Agriculture (USDA) rules aim to boost the nutritional quality of the federally funded meals consumed by roughly 32 million US school children. The rules represent the first [...]

Single-sex schools are more likely to produce high-flying career girls

A study claims pupils educated within an all-female environment are much more likely to take chances than their coed peers If you want your daughter to be a high-flying businesswoman or banker, send her to a single-sex school. This is the startling conclusion drawn from new research charting the complex relationship between gender and risk-taking. [...]

Girls ‘more resilient’ than boys at school

Girls from single-parent families outperform boys in class because they are less affected by parental input, study shows Girls appear to be more resilient than boys in preventing problems at home from affecting their behaviour in school, a study into the gender educational achievement gap has found. The tendency for girls to do better in the [...]

GCSE results: more turbulence on the way

Schools should be rewarded for getting the best out of all their pupils, argues Mike Baker, whatever grades they make Have you adopted the brace position for next month’s secondary school league tables? After last year’s introduction of the controversial Ebacc measure, more change is on the way. So, more turbulence is likely. But how [...]

Teachers’ strike forces more than half of England’s state schools to close

Department for Education says 58% of state schools closed and further 13% partly closed as teachers strike over pensions Some 58% of state schools in England are thought to be closed as hundreds of thousands of teachers joined a mass strike over reforms to their pensions. The Department for Education said a further 13% of [...]

Young people in Britain need more specialist IT skills

The IT employment sector is growing five times faster than the UK average, but most of the new jobs will demand higher-level qualifications and skills than exist among the resident population The government last week unveiled a £1bn scheme to tackle youth unemployment through subsidies, apprenticeships and work experience placements for 500,000 jobless young people. In [...]

Brain science and the law: should we understand more and condemn less? | Matthew Taylor

Matthew Taylor, who presents a new series about neuroscience on Radio 4, argues we should favour treatment over punishment Part one of Brain Culture is at 4pm on Tuesday According to a UK Cabinet Office study published last week, the primary motivation for participation in this summer’s riots was not individual badness or disadvantage so [...]

Online Affiliate – More Than the Price Tag

Advertising and marketing on the Internet has had a major breakthrough with one of the top most companies investing in this sector. Of the companies that deserve a name, majority are those that look after different services and aspects of Information and Technology. Other than them, popular marketing and advertising agencies have also been comforting [...]

Online Master Degree The Secure Way For Promotion And More Money

According to the United States Census Bureau, people earn a masters degree averaged about $ 85,000 a year. Although it may seem almost impossible to achieve in higher education as job training, distance learning offers the flexibility needed to complete a masters program. Instead of the planned trip to participate in class, you can learn [...]

Make Your Life More Enjoyable with A brand new Career and an online business degree in 2010

Each person knows that education is essential and that acquiring certain skills gives you an advantage in life. Now that most functions of our lives can be carried out online , continued learning, formerly only the privilege of the rich, is now within reasonable access for the general public. Getting an extra university degree online [...]

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