Telling us what we told them

Article Abstract:

The Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) now requires postgraduates to acquire skills in statistical analysis, methodology and computer literacy. The Joseph Rowntree Foundation has a postdoctoral fellowship scheme including training. Research results have been inaccessible to lay readers who could find them useful: policy makers, decision takers and those in housing, social policy and social care. The Rowntree Foundation and the ESRC produces briefing papers summarising projects. Several large social science research centres employ dissemination offices.

Research, Training, Statistics, Statistics (Data), Social science research, Economic and Social Research Council

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Under siege since the middle classes went elsewhere

Article Abstract:

Dyke House comprehensive school, Hartlepool, England, was criticised by Ofsted, the national inspection agency, for unsatisfactory learning quality and ineffective management. Hardworking staff felt ridiculed and headmaster Peter Ramsden took early retirement. Only 10% of pupils gained grade C or over in five GCSEs. The number of pupils has dropped from 1,000 in 1985 to 537 in 1993. Discipline is good although the areahas an unemployment rate of 24% and 1/3 of the children are from single-parent families. Parental help is minimal.

Standards, Reports, Schools, England, School management and organization, School administration, United Kingdom. Ofsted

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Wonderful brains, shame about the maths

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Durham University, England, has set up a Numeracy Profect aided by the Department of Trade and Industry for all students in the country. Hull and Essex have numeracy tutors for their own students. Michael Cornelius, numeracy fellow at Durham University, discovered that one in six graduates were unskilled in percentages, averages, tabulated data and calculator use: all requirements in employment. Recruitment managers increasingly require all-rounders yet employers' numeracy tests demonstrate the problem.

Employment, Testing, Employee recruitment, Study and teaching, Mathematical ability, Durham, England (City)

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