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Northern Irish mothers ‘most likely to read to their children every day’

17 October 2008

Mothers in Northern Ireland are more likely to read to their children every day than mothers in other UK countries, new research suggests

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Study produces unique portrait of UK’s millennium children at the age of 5

17 October 2008

The findings of the third survey of more than 15,000 children born in the UK during the first two years of the new millennium are published by the Centre for Longitudinal Studies today (Friday, October 17).

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New Visiting Professor for CLS

16 September 2008

Elizabeth Cooksey from Ohio State University will be visiting CLS several times over the forthcoming year.

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CLS welcomes Bob Michael back as World Scholar

5 September 2008

Prof Robert Michael arrived on September 1, and will be staying at CLS until September 15.

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Please let us know about your publications

4 September 2008

CLS is currently gathering information from users of CLS data sets. If you are using 1958 National Child Development Study, 1970 British Cohort Study or Millennium Cohort Study data in your research projects, please urgently send us details of any publications which involve the use of cohort data.

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Research Methods Short Course Programme launched

28 August 2008

A series of Research Methods courses, run in partnership with Government Social Research Unit as part of the MSc in Policy Analysis and Evaluation, can also be taken as stand-alone courses as part of the continuing professional development.

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Eighth NCDS survey commences

19 August 2008

The start of the eighth sweep of the National Childhood Development Study was marked by an article in The Guardian.

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Best Paper award for Jenny Neuburger

1 August 2008

CLS Research Officer Jenny Neuburger has been awarded a prize for best paper submitted by a young economist at the Work Pensions and Labour Economics Conference.

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Changes to access arrangements for Cohort Data

10 July 2008

From 1 August 2008, access to NCDS, BCS and MCS data via the UK Data Archive changed.

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Now we are 50 report published

9 July 2008

CLS launches a new report to mark 50 years of the National Child Development Study.

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CLS welcomes Miles Corak as Visiting Fellow

4 July 2008

Professor Corak arrived on June 9, and will be staying at CLS until the end of July.

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New CLS Working Papers published

2 July 2008

Data from the National Child Development Study have enabled researchers to produce four new studies.

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