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Summer 2006 issue of Kohort now online

30 June 2006

The summer 2006 issue of Kohort, the CLS newsletter, is now available online.

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CLS publishes a new briefing paper on the returns to education

28 June 2006

CLS publishes a new briefing paper on the returns to education

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Press release: Maths A-level leads to higher earnings for men

27 June 2006

Men who have an A-level in mathematics are more likely to earn higher wages than their male peers who have A-levels in other subjects.

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Press release: Couch potato kids become – and remain – obese adults

2 May 2006

Statistics confirm that children who watch more than two hours of television a day at the weekend risk becoming obese adults. And despite health warnings, the rate of exercise has not increased among adults who are overweight as the result of inactivity.

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An “early bird” discount is available for the International Conference on Child Cohort Studies

4 April 2006

Register before 1 July 2006 to qualify for our “early bird” discount for the International Conference on Child Cohort Studies.

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Latest issue of Kohort now online

3 March 2006

The Spring 2006 issue of Kohort, the CLS newsletter, is now available online.

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CLS awarded funding to create teaching datasets

13 January 2006

On 1 January 2006 a new two-year project started at CLS which will produce a set of teaching datasets and associated resources based on our three cohort studies (NCDS, BCS and MCS).

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CLS celebrates its first anniversary as an ESRC Resource Centre

4 November 2005

CLS is celebrating its first anniversary as a Resource Centre of the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC). In October 2004, the ESRC’s decision to fund CLS gave the data collection of the 1958, 1970 and Millennium cohort studies an assured future and recognised their value to the research, educational and policy communities in the UK and abroad.

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Press release: Minority ethnic babies have better nutritional start in life

12 October 2005

Babies in minority ethnic groups are more likely to be breastfed and less likely to have mothers who smoke than white UK babies, according to new findings from the Centre for Longitudinal Studies, Institute of Education…

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BCS70 Head Teacher Questionnaire Data Now Available

21 September 2005

A questionnaire sent out to Head Teachers in 1986, when BCS70 cohort members were aged 16, has recently been keyed, cleaned, and linked to 4,592 individual cohort members. Now fully documented, the dataset was deposited by CLS at the UK Data Archive, and is now available for download (study number 5225).

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Press release: Children from ex-partners do not spoil future relationships

18 July 2005

Having children from a previous partner does not affect the stability of future relationships, according to new research from the Institute of Education.

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Press release: Neville Butler – 85 and still hard at work

5 July 2005

Neville Butler, director of Bristol’s International Centre for Child Studies (ICCS), celebrated his 85th birthday on 6 July

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