Our case studies of pupils, teachers, parents, careers advisers, employers and local authorities show what can be achieved and encourage others to follow suit.
Studies of pupils' attitudes to science provide ample evidence that most are turned off by the quality of their experiences of compulsory science education before the age of 16.
Other changes to the English system will remain, including a move towards exams at the end of two years of study instead of pupils picking up points which count towards their final grade through modular exams.
Studies of pupil diameter responses during cognitive control tasks show that baseline pupil diameter (before a stimulus) and evoked pupil diameter (after a stimulus) may serve as indices for tonic and phasic modes of LC/NE function (Gilzenrat et al. 2010).
A new Department for Education study of 30,000 pupils finds there is an epidemic of depression among teenage girls, who are more than twice as likely to face anxiety and mental health issues than boys.
Now, nobody cares much about Canadian ice hockey players, but the Institute for Fiscal Studies has carried out a useful study of school pupils which demonstrates that much the same effect holds true for academic attainment.
The conclusions are based on a study of 2,855 pupils aged 11-16 athreeee secondary schools in and around Bath, of whom 461 had missed 20% of their lessons, or at least a day a week, over a six-week period.
A later study of 1,584 pupils aged 14 16 years found that "being female, being young, personal devotion, public church attendance and enrolment at a Protestant school were all associated with higher levels of belief in creationism" (Francis and Greer 2001: 48).
In this cross-sectional study of 354 pupils and their parents, independent mobility, perceptions of neighborhood safety and physical activity were evaluated by questionnaire.
For example, in a prospective study of school pupils in New England, USA, those in the highest quartile of film exposure were >2.5 times more likely to have initiated smoking 13 26 months later compared with the lowest quartile, and it was estimated that >50% of smoking initiation could be attributed to smoking in films.
As suggested by the results from studying colonization of pupils in an agricultural area, dissemination of MRSA CC398 among humans outside farms is apparently limited.
