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SLLS elects first President

30 March 2010

The Society for Longitudinal and Life Course Studies (SLLS) has elected Professor Heather Joshi of CLS as its first President.

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NCDS8 data now available from UK Data Archive

29 March 2010

The first deposit of data from the 8th follow-up of the National Child Development Study, which took place in 2008/9 when cohort members were 50 years old, is now available from the UK Data Archive.

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ESRC Social Science Week – CLS organise workshops with local schoolchildren

23 March 2010

CLS organised four workshops in local schools last week as part of ESRC’s Social Science Week.

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Women’s memory better than men’s at age 50

12 March 2010

A study involving more than 9,600 middle-aged men and women in England, Scotland and Wales has found that women outscored men in two verbal memory tests. Participants in the first test listened to 10 common words being read out and were then given two minutes to recall as many as possible. The second test required them to list the same 10 words about five minutes later.

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Researchers using data from the birth cohort studies (NCDS, BCS70 and MCS)

2 March 2010

CLS would be grateful if anyone who is carrying out research using data from any of the three birth cohort studies could remember to notify us of all resultant publications.

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Underclass of pre-school children emerging, study says

2 March 2010

A new study by think tank Demos, which draws on data from the Millennium Cohort Study (MCS), blames a lack of spending at pre-school level for educational disengagement in children under four.

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Fewer parents gaining ‘first choice’ primary schools than statistics suggest

17 February 2010

Fewer parents are managing to enrol children in their true ‘first choice’ primary schools than is generally thought, says a new study.

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Simple tests in babyhood ‘could point to children who need help with learning’

17 February 2010

Screening tests that monitor babies’ motor development could prove crucial in helping to identify children who will need learning support in their pre-school years, says a book published today.

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Second Millennium Cohort Study book published

17 February 2010

Children of the 21st century (Volume 2): The first five years, edited by Kirstine Hansen, Heather Joshi and Shirley Dex, was published on Wednesday 17 February by The Policy Press.

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Black mothers most likely to say they receive racist treatment

16 February 2010

Black Caribbean and black African mothers are more likely than women from other ethnic groups to say that they have been victims of racism, a study has found.

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Sikh and Catholic mothers ‘most likely to attend religious services’

16 February 2010

Sikh and Roman Catholic women in the UK are more likely to attend a weekly religious service than women from other major faiths and churches, new research suggests.

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Reading to a child at age 3 pays real dividends two years later

16 February 2010

Parents who read to their child every day at age 3 are more likely to see them flourishing in a wide range of subjects during their first year in primary school, a UK-wide study suggests.

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