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Fran Abrams

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Health and place: How levelling up health can keep older workers working: blogs.ucl.ac.uk/linking-our-…
Health and place: How levelling up health can keep older workers working

Health and place: How levelling up health can keep older workers working

As part of its levelling up agenda, the UK Government has set itself an ambitious target to add five additional healthy years to the average UK lifespan by 2035. In this blog Dr Emily Murray highli…

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Would you support the Education Media Centre by signing up for a free weekly round-up of education news and research? We're a charity and this small act could help us to keep spreading the word about what works: go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?Lin…
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Your very own and my very own! What a star!
Hall Mead Geography (@hallmeadgeog) profile pictureHall Mead Geography@hallmeadgeog29 Apr 2022
Our very own @hallmead Mrs Brighty-Glover was invited onto a panel to discuss learning loss for the #GenPanPod coming out next week. Big focus on emphasising the importance of focusing on the resilience of our learners! 👀Looking forward to this one!
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Our very own @hallmead Mrs Brighty-Glover was invited onto a panel to discuss learning loss for the #GenPanPod coming out next week. Big focus on emphasising the importance of focusing on the resilience of our learners! 👀Looking forward to this one!
Interdisciplinary Child Well-Being Network (@icwbn) profile pictureInterdisciplinary Child Well-Being Network@icwbn29 Apr 2022
Episode 3 of the #GenPanPod is out next week with @Jenny_Symonds, @AdamSalisbury15 & @AliceBrighty - #COVID19 - #LearningLoss in Children buff.ly/3JWHD9i #Education #GenerationPandemic @ESRC @IrishResearch @cathmcd11 @ResearchPods @TheIFS @hallmeadgeog @hallmead @EMCUK
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Employer groups call on Sunak to reform levy funds in spring statement

Employer groups call on Sunak to reform levy funds in spring statement

Employer groups are calling on the chancellor to allow apprenticeship levy funds to cover the cost of apprentice wages and transport expenses in next week’s spring statement

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Time to end ex-polytechnics’ second-class status, says Ken Clarke timeshighereducation.com/new… via @timeshighered
Time to end ex-polytechnics’ second-class status, says Ken Clarke

Time to end ex-polytechnics’ second-class status, says Ken Clarke

Tory former minister who abolished binary divide says hierarchy should be on ‘educational quality’ only – and sector ‘still not properly accountable’

timeshighereducation.com
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Exhibition gives insight into children’s play in lockdown

Exhibition gives insight into children’s play in lockdown

Photographs, art, poetry and videos made around the world during the pandemic will be displayed online by Young V&A

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New report finds ‘first-in-family’ status flawed as a way of helping disadvantaged students hepi.ac.uk/2022/01/06/new-re…
New report finds ‘first-in-family’ status flawed as a way of helping disadvantaged students - HEPI

New report finds ‘first-in-family’ status flawed as a way of helping disadvantaged students - HEPI

The Higher Education Policy Institute’s latest report, First-in-Family Students by Harriet Coombs (HEPI Report 146), finds most university students in the UK – just over two-thirds – can be classif...

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Such a privilege to talk with Amanda Sacker and Sir Ian Diamond for this episode of the Linking our Lives podcast produced by @ResearchPods
CeLSIUS (@celsiusnews) profile pictureCeLSIUS@celsiusnews28 Sep 2021
🆕 podcast episode is out now with Professor Amanda Sacker from @icls_info and Sir Ian Diamond, the UK's national statistician, discussing the importance of the @ONS LS to provide evidence to enact real change in care experienced lives. buff.ly/3oftqNi #LinkingOurLives
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Super new blog from @drnjshelton on how the @ONS longitudinal study works! @EPHDept @UCL_IEHC
CeLSIUS (@celsiusnews) profile pictureCeLSIUS@celsiusnews18 Mar 2021
The ONS Longitudinal Study: how does it work? blogs.ucl.ac.uk/linking-our-…
The ONS Longitudinal Study: how does it work?

The ONS Longitudinal Study: how does it work?

  by Nicola Shelton Back in the late 1960s there was concern that policymakers had too little information about births and deaths: death certificates recorded only limited information and even…

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If anyone wants a genuine glimpse into current government priorities, and general political tone - to dig beneath the smooth 'levelling up' rhetoric - consider this story. It tells us so much. theguardian.com/education/20…
UK ministers accused of 'settling scores' by axing union adult learning fund

UK ministers accused of 'settling scores' by axing union adult learning fund

Employers and councils back last-ditch TUC drive to rescue scheme that has helped a generation of workers fulfil their dreams

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Good question with some interesting answers!
WorkLife (@WorkLife_blog) profile pictureWorkLife@WorkLife_blog5 Jan 2021
Lockdown – just how stressful has it been? worklife-blog.org/2021/01/lo… @TaraniChandola @MBenzeval @cara_booker @usociety #COVID19 @OfficialUoM @Uni_of_Essex @icls_info #Lockdown #tier5 #tier4 #wfh #homeschooling
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@SkyNews19 Dec 2020
“We need an adult skills revolution.” Chair of the Education Select Committee, Robert Halfon is calling for community learning centres “in every town” to revitalise adult learning and help get people back into jobs. Get the latest political news here: trib.al/yVIBsPG
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My piece in the Guardian today - the book comes out on Friday (see link at the end of the piece) theguardian.com/education/20…
'I was 17 but they said I was 28': Home Office age rulings cost young refugees an education

'I was 17 but they said I was 28': Home Office age rulings cost young refugees an education

Two young people who arrived in the UK alone explain how they have been denied schooling – and hope for the future

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🏥 A first for UK longitudinal research! Health data from @NHSDigital linked to data from #NextStepsStudy of #millennial generation are now available to researchers via @UKDataService. Find out more about the datasets & how to access them here: cls.ucl.ac.uk/nhs-administra… @_DrLisaC
Young man in physiotherapy

ALT Young man in physiotherapy

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Impact of Covid-19 has created stark discrepancies in students' experiences of taking A Levels says new study birmingham.ac.uk/news/latest… via @unibirmingham
Is the curriculum dividing Northern Ireland's schools along Troubles lines? Really interesting piece by @Franabrams theguardian.com/education/20…
Is the curriculum dividing Northern Ireland's schools along Troubles lines?

Is the curriculum dividing Northern Ireland's schools along Troubles lines?

Catholic secondaries tend to teach GCSE history module including the 1965-98 conflict but many ‘Protestant’ schools do not

theguardian.com
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Well-off or not? Why leaving school and starting work is a critical point for women ucl.ac.uk/epidemiology-healt… @Anne_McMunn @BaowenXue @PZaninotto @EPHDept @UCL_IEHC @WBG_Gender @womenworkappg
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@oakfurnitureland Please can someone help me? I have been homeless and without furniture for five months after a house fire. In March I paid £3000 to Oak Furnitureland for furniture and was promised delivery on May 27, Now this appears to have been dropped with no warning.
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