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Welcome to our news and blogs section. Here you’ll find the latest developments and insights from across our longitudinal studies.
Scottish children have a wider vocabulary and a better understanding of colours, numbers, sizes and shapes at the age of three than youngsters in the other UK countries.
Scottish seven-year-olds are the most physically active in the UK, new research suggests.
The findings of a remarkable UCL Institute of Education research study are being used to promote reading for pleasure and to help protect school and public library services around the English-speaking world.
There is no evidence that government investment in particular school structures or types – for example, academies, free schools or faith schools – has been effective in improving the performance of pupils from poor backgrounds, according to a review published today by the Institute of Education (IOE).
Pupils taking the ‘EBacc’ curriculum are only slightly more likely than their peers to go to university, according to a new study.
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.
Adults who were bullied as children are more likely to experience mental health problems than those who were never bullied, according to new research based on the 1958 National Child Development Study.
The 2011 CLS Masters dissertation prize has been awarded to Sarah Godwin for her study on the relationship between occupational aspirations and psychological problems among children from disadvantaged backgrounds
Young adults from working class homes are more likely to drink heavily if they smoked during their teenage years, whereas their middle class peers start drinking excessively if they go on to higher education.
Children who experience physical or sexual abuse have three times the odds of having suicidal thoughts at age 45, new research shows.
The risk of slipping down the earnings ladder has increased for the less educated and those living outside London, a new study suggests
New research suggests that privilege doesn’t protect ethnic minority children from gaining weight in the same way as it does their White peers.
Ryan Bradshaw
Senior Communications Officer
Phone: 020 7612 6516
Email: r.bradshaw@ucl.ac.uk
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