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Institute of Education merges with UCL

2 December 2014

Today the Institute of Education (IOE) will join UCL as a single Faculty School, to be known as the UCL Institute of Education.

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21st century childhoods may be very different but they still seem largely enjoyable

28 November 2014

Do children born in the UK at the beginning of the new millennium have some reasons to be cheerful? Yes, it appears that they do.

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Poverty has touched the lives of more than half of the UK’s millennium generation

28 November 2014

More than half of the children born in the UK at the turn of the millennium experienced poverty at some point during their first 11 years, a new study shows.

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Inequalities in cognitive development persist for the millennium generation

28 November 2014

Social background remains the most powerful predictor of 11-year-olds’ cognitive abilities, a new study confirms.

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Family instability affects four in ten children of the millennium generation

28 November 2014

Nearly four in every ten children born at the turn of the century lived through at least one change in their parents’ relationship status in their first 11 years – up from just one in ten in 1969, a new study finds.

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Family instability affects four in ten children of the millennium generation

28 November 2014

Nearly four in every ten children born at the turn of the century lived through at least one change in their parents’ relationship status in their first 11 years – up from just one in ten in 1969, a new study finds. The report published by the Institute of Education, London, sets out how home […]

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One in five ‘children of the new century’ obese by age 11

27 November 2014

One in five children born in the UK at the beginning of the new century was obese by the age of 11, a new study shows.

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Grammar schools ‘made it no easier’ to gain elite university degrees, study finds

21 November 2014

Grammar schools have been no more successful than comprehensives at helping to ensure their pupils gain a university degree or graduate from an elite higher education institution, new research suggests

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Thousands fewer pupils are being bullied, study reveals

17 November 2014

Ten thousand fewer pupils are being bullied every day than 10 years ago, a major new study of secondary school pupils has revealed.

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Long-term vocabulary benefits from ‘reading for pleasure’ in childhood

6 November 2014

Reading for pleasure during childhood has a substantial influence on a person’s vocabulary 30 years later.

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Why Britain’s sandwich generation feel very tightly squeezed

3 November 2014

Life has never been particularly easy for middle-aged adults who find themselves caring for aged parents and their own children and grandchildren.

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School can worsen disabled children’s behavioural problems, researchers say

3 October 2014

Much more could be done to help children with physical and learning disabilities cope with the challenges they face on entering school, new research suggests.

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