Science Education & Policy
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AMSTERDAM, The Netherlands, July 14 /PRNewswire/ --
- Platform's Online Content Doubled in Less Than Five Years
Elsevier, a leading publisher of scientific, technical and medical (STM) information, today announced that its online scientific research platform, ScienceDirect, has surpassed nine million full-text articles.
Doubling its content in less than five years, ScienceDirect is the largest and most extensive online STM research platform. Serving the evolving needs of the global scientific community, the platform offers search, reference and discovery tools to help researchers quickly…
Nine out of ten regular food items aimed specifically at children have a poor nutritional content – because of high levels of sugar, fat or sodium - according to a detailed study of 367 products published in the July issue of the UK-based journal Obesity Reviews.
Just under 70 per cent of the products studied - which specifically excluded confectionery, soft drinks and bakery items - derived a high proportion of calories from sugar. Approximately one in five (23 per cent) had high fat levels and 17 per cent had high sodium levels. Despite this, 62 per cent of the foods with poor nutritional…
The topic of gender in science has been a hot one this decade. While women have equal representation in biology and an overwhelming majority in social sciences, they are lacking in the hard sciences and sparse at the professor level.
Germany has implented "Research oriented gender equality standards“, which have been developed by the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, DFG) and have now been adopted by the General Assembly of the DFG in Berlin.
It means that universities and non-university research institutions must commit themselves to promoting equal rights for…
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BRISTOL, England, July 14 /PRNewswire/ --
- Greater Understanding of Digital Literacy is Essential for Young People and Their Future job Prospects According to Virtual Voices Conference
The topic of media literacy was discussed last week at Virtual Voices, an event which brought together young people, educators, policymakers and media figures. After a series of debates and workshops all 100% of delegates agreed when polled that understanding media literacy is vital for future success and that the government should do more to support media literacy to help Britain remain competitive.…
A new pathway for methane formation in the oceans has been discovered, with significant potential for advancing our understanding of greenhouse gas production on Earth, scientists believe.
A paper on the findings published in Nature Geoscience reveals that decomposition of a phosphorus-containing compound called methylphosphonate may be responsible for an unexpected supersaturation of methane in the oceans' oxygen-rich surface waters.
Through the National Science Foundation (NSF) Center for Microbial Oceanography: Research and Education (C-MORE), oceanographer David Karl of the University of…
You may have heard the news that Louisiana's governor recently signed an "Academic Freedom" bill, the first such bill to pass in a recent string of efforts to allow public school teachers to push non-scientific alternatives to evolution. (I previously wrote about Missouri's failed version.) All of these bills claim to promote academic freedom for public school teachers to teach the Intelligent Design movement's so-called evidence against evolution. But the concept of academic freedom in a high school curriculum makes no sense.
In the New Scientist story linked to above, Josh Rosenau of the…
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HALIFAX, England, July 12 /PRNewswire/ --
New research from Halifax Financial Services shows that the cost of a private school education has increased by more than twice the rate of inflation since 2003.
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LONDON, July 11 /PRNewswire/ -- A series of online NHS Health Guides for people with long-term conditions have been launched today on the national NHS website, NHS Choices http://www.nhs.uk
These online guides take patients through each stage of the journey, from before diagnosis, and through to how to live and self -manage the condition. Throughout the next year, NHS Choices will be rolling out more guides from the 60 most common long-term conditions, giving people the information they require to make their own choices and decisions about their treatment.
The first one's are for diabetes,…
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BRUSSELS, Belgium, July 11 /PRNewswire/ --
- The European Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology to Hold Press Conference With 4 Major Topics on Monday 15 September 2008.
More than 4,500 cancer and radiotherapy specialists will gather in Göteborg this September for the 27th annual congress of ESTRO. ESTRO 27 is to be held between the 14th and 18th September 2008 at the Göteborg Convention Centre in Göteborg, Sweden.
The congress will include teaching sessions, lectures, presentations of major breakthroughs, posters and discussions dealing with the different areas covered by…
The nation's fourth and eighth graders scored higher in reading and mathematics than they did during their last national assessment, according to the federal government's latest annual statistical report on the well-being of the nation's children. Not all the report's findings were positive; there also were increases in the adolescent birth rate and the proportion of infants born at low birthweight.
These and other findings are described in America's Children in Brief: Key National Indicators of Well-Being, 2008. The report is compiled by the Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family…