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A new education resource is teaching school children from around Scotland the hidden history behind the names of their local communities.

Experts from Lancaster University and the Universities of Manchester and Liverpool have secured one of the largest grants ever awarded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) - to carry out research which will transform understanding of how children learn to communicate. The £9 million cash injection over five years will see a new ESRC International Centre for Language and Communicative Development (LuCiD) set up in the North West working with experts in the USA, Australia, Germany, Switzerland and Poland.

ANN ARBOR-Low levels of education and financial assets have long been linked to increased risks of cardiovascular disease. But a new University of Michigan study shows that the association is much greater for middle-aged and older women than it is for men of similar ages. "These findings suggest that health care professionals should consider exploring interventions aimed at reducing the risks of heart disease for this group of women," said Kristi Rahrig Jenkins, a U-M sociologist who co-authored the study published last month in Women & Health.

Professor Matthew Flinders comments on Tony Benn's remarkable gift for connecting with the public. Matthew Flinders is Professor of Politics at the University of Sheffield and Director of the University's Sir Bernard Crick Centre for the Public Understanding of Politics.

11 Mar 2014 New evidence from the 2011 Census shows that ethnic minorities in England and Wales have become increasingly better qualified than their White British counterparts.

Obesity levels among women in lowand middle-income countries tend to rise in line with wealth as they purchase more energy-dense foods, but a new UCL study suggests that more educated consumers make better food choices that mitigate this effect. The study showed that in middle-income countries, obesity levels among women with secondary or higher education are 14-19% lower than less-educated women of similar wealth.

The University of Birmingham and Rolls-Royce celebrated their joint collaboration to establish a High Temperature Research Centre (HTRC) when the University's Vice-Chancellor Professor David Eastwood

Scientists are working toward even stronger and more elastic glass types which would fail in a ductile fashion instead of shattering.

Dr Veronica Maynard, Associate Professor in Postgraduate Clinical Education and Lead for Evidence Based Medicine at Plymouth University Peninsula Schools of Medicine and Dentistry (PU PSMD), has been awarded a three-year NICE (National Institute for Health and Care Excellence) Fellowship.

Stanford University's Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education co-sponsored the Dalai Lama's visit to Silicon Valley for a talk on business, ethics and compassion.

Squinting close to the beginning of time, Dominik Riechers, Cornell assistant professor of astronomy, has discovered an association of gas-rich galaxies near the infancy of cosmic time. It's an early epoch - some 12.7 billion years ago - telling a tale that revolves around an exceptionally dusty galaxy called AzTEC-3.

We live in a multilingual society. More than a million children attending British schools speak more than 360 languages between them in addition to English.

The University of Glasgow will this week mark the 5th anniversary of its unique Gaelic language residency scheme, Taigh na Gàidhlig (Lit.

The Institute of Education (IOE) and UCL today announced that they are to begin consultation on a proposed merger.

University of Washington The UW Human Subjects Division has updated and streamlined many of its policies.

Today, we commence a month-long focus on research on migration. To begin, Professor Madeleine Arnot and Professor Loraine Gelsthorpe, Co-Convenors of the new Cambridge Migration Research Network, discuss the Network's rationale and aims, and our preoccupation with the impact of migrant populations.

As many American public school districts adopt single-sex classrooms and even entire schools, a new study finds scant evidence that they offer educational or social benefits. The study was the largest and most thorough effort to examine the issue to date, says Janet Hyde , a professor of psychology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Knife Crime Interventions: 'what works?' PDF Scottish Centre for Crime and Justice Research Education based interventions are more effective than any other initiative in tackling the scourge of knife crime.

Researchers at the Gardner Center will help design a system for eight large urban school districts that examines social and emotional learning, as well as academic performance.

Sussex Social Work celebrates year of unprecedented league table success The Department of Social Work and Social Care at the University of Sussex rounded off 2013 by celebrating their unprecedented success in multiple league tables this year.

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A delegation from Japan is visiting Plymouth on Thursday 12 December to see the city's pioneering work in dementia care.

Oxford University's Head of Humanities has outlined the need for more leaders across the humanities in a research paper published today (4 December).

Secondary school can be a stressful enough time for any teenager, but for those living with Tourette Syndrome (TS) their neurological condition can present a whole new set of challenges.