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2018
09
October
2018
Primary school teachers should encourage children to tinker, play, and experiment more in the classroom and even “embrace failure” to help encourage and develop a new generation of engineers.
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18
July
2018
The first major restoration project of the Carbon Landscape - a £3.2 million programme to restore former industrial landscapes in the North West - has been officially opened near Warrington.
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05
April
2018
An expert from The University of Manchester has called for current linguistic guidance issued to teachers in England and Wales to address accents in his new book.
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14
February
2018
The British public are being invited to share their experiences of loneliness, as part of a national survey led by the BBC and The University of Manchester.
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12
February
2018
Experts have called for a significant and urgent increase in resources to support the mental health of young people in schools, after a study uncovered a ‘perfect storm’ of increased need and decreased provision.
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02
February
2018
A PhD student from The University of Manchester has travelled a million metres, just a few weeks before his sixtieth birthday in a global indoor rowing competition.
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19
January
2018
The way we talk can reveal a lot about us and our origins – in terms of region, class and ethnicity. The UK has a wide variety of accents but not all are created equal – with some accents deemed to be more socially acceptable than others.
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11
January
2018
Students from a girls’ grammar school have worked with educational psychologists from The University of Manchester to develop an accessible and appealing mental health strategy for their school.
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2017
18
December
2017
A new board which aims to ensure that Greater Manchester’s children and young people have the best start in life has appointed Mel Ainscow CBE, Emeritus Professor of Education at The University of Manchester, as its independent chair.
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13
December
2017
The government has been criticised for a lack of accountability for academies. shutterstock
Mel Ainscow, University of Manchester and Maija Salokangas, Trinity College Dublin
Academies are back in the news – and not for a good reason. In the s...
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30
November
2017
New research has found that the introduction of academies is deepening divisions within the English education system.
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07
November
2017
A major new report by researchers from The University of Manchester is asking why disadvantaged children are still not performing as well as their more affluent peers, despite a decade of Government reforms.
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07
September
2017
“Slow” movements promote concepts of mindfulness and a consideration of process as well as outcomes. Shutterstock/Jaromir Chalabala
Jess Harris, University of Newcastle; Mel Ainscow, University of Manchester; Nerida Spina, Queensland Universit...
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15
March
2017
The Manchester Institute of Education is one of seven institutions to have been chosen to partner with education charity Teach First.
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06
January
2017
A researcher from The University of Manchester has found that British schoolchildren think their teachers should keep their regional accents, rather than modifying them in ways they consider ‘more appropriate’ for the classroom.
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2016
18
November
2016
Deputy Governor for Financial Stability, Sir Jon Cunliffe, delivered a speech to students at The University of Manchester this week where he discussed his career and current role at the Bank of England and explained the outlook for the UK economy.
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09
November
2016
Key national and international figures from the Chinese community came together yesterday at The University of Manchester to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Confucius Institute, an organisation which endorses Chinese language and culture.
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19
October
2016
Teachers of the deaf from seven local authorities in the North West are to take part in a research initiative to enable deaf children to develop better societal understanding and more advanced social negotiation skills, leading to more intuitive writ...
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13
October
2016
An exhibition has been launched at Manchester Central Library to reflect on the life and legacy of Ahmed Iqbal Ullah, who was murdered in the playground of a Manchester high school in 1986 after defending younger Bangladeshi boys from racist bullying...
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08
August
2016
The University of Manchester is at the forefront of a national drive to transform the teaching of computing in schools.
In 2012, the University’s Professor Steve Furber chaired a Royal Society project which published a report that recommended a mo...
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20
June
2016
Astrophysicists from The University of Manchester and The University of Cambridge have teamed up with secondary school students and Dance Manchester to create a performance to tell the story of the formation of stars in our solar system. The dance, S...
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15
June
2016
Youngsters from across Greater Manchester were wowed by the inspiration given to them by The University of Manchester’s own Women of Wonder.
Dozens of Year 9 and 10 students from schools representing Manchester, Bury and Rochdale gathered at the U...
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11
May
2016
National polices are preventing primary schools from responding effectively to increased diversity in the classroom, according to a report written by a team of researchers at The University of Manchester.
The report - commissioned by the Cambridge...
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29
March
2016
The University of Manchester today shines the spotlight on Greater Manchester’s trailblazing devolution journey with a raft of expert articles and blogs providing new analysis of Devo Manc - from health and social care to housing, transport and the n...
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23
February
2016
In response to comments by Sir Michael Wilshaw, Ofsted's chief inspector of schools, today, experts at The University of Manchester's Institute of Education are available for interview.
Professor Mel Ainscow CBE, the government's chief advisor for...
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2015
12
May
2015
Deaf education lecturers at The University of Manchester are using the Swivl robot in school classrooms in a UK first for teacher training.
Swivl is a robotic turntable onto which is placed an iPad or other tablet. It is positioned in the classro...
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2014
11
March
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.
The research, by The University of Manchester’s Centre on Dynamics and Ethnicity (...
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2013
18
December
2013
New research on schoolchildren shows the more languages they speak, the better they can speak them.
The School Language Survey, a new method developed at the University of Manchester, was carried out by the University’s Multilingual Manchester pr...
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31
October
2013
People who suffer from language difficulties as children may continue to suffer from various emotional and behavioural problems as adults, according to new research by The University of Manchester.
Childhood language impairment used to be seen as ...
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27
September
2013
Concerns over discrimination in the UK general practitioner examination are raised in a study by The University of Manchester published on bmj.com today.
Academic performance of ethnic minority candidates in the national MRCGP (Membership of the...
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