This research suggests that there is one simple way to equip your children for a life of literacy from their infancy: show them picture books.
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The way the UK thinks about workplaces and workers means that those learning a trade are at a disadvantage. And that’s bad news as we attempt to add 3m apprentices to the mix.
The extreme right and extreme left have found themselves united against Europe.
Parts of the UK are sizzling thanks to Iberian air.
No-one wants to run a ‘No’ campaign these days but it actually won’t make much of a difference.
Immunotherapy has joined anti-retroviral drug therapy as a means to combat HIV.
The shock therapy of changes in schools and universities may feel like a seismic shift. But it’s the direction we were already travelling in.
“Snowmageddon” was predicted – three feet of snow, blizzards whipped up by high winds, a freeze of the whole transport system. What New York got was “snowperbole”. Yes, it snowed, but not as badly as predicted…
Arctic sea ice melts each summer, reaching its minimum extent sometime in September, before refreezing through the winter. Over the past 35 years, the September sea ice extent has reduced by about 35…
“Don’t put all your eggs in one basket” is a common refrain. But usually it is not followed by the words “because your neighbours may kill you”. However, this is precisely the scenario faced by some female…
In rehearsal for the 1976 premiere production of Footfalls at the Royal Court in London, Billie Whitelaw recounted Samuel Beckett’s direction: When we rehearsed eyeball to eyeball, he opened up in me whatever…
Two weeks of international climate negotiations in Lima, Peru, are over, with an agreement pulled out of the bag at the eleventh hour. While Lima has been seen by many as a mere curtain-raiser to talks…
Historical prestige is not the only reason why British universities do well at attracting international students – but it helps. Victorian antecedents hint at continuity and esteem. Strong teaching, good…
As higher education has gradually become more commercialised, universities are getting used to employing professional marketers to help develop and manage their reputations and brands. But while the sector…
The Nobel Peace Prize is a major achievement in itself. For it to be awarded – jointly with the Indian anti-child slavery activist Kailash Satyarthi – to a teenager still at secondary school is extraordinary…
I’ve heard it many a time, and you probably have too. It’s supposedly the trump card to any argument on addressing climate change globally: “Yeah, but what’s the point? Isn’t China building a new coal…
The upper layers of the world’s oceans have been warming much faster than oceanographers realised over the past few decades, according to a new study. Sparse sampling of the Southern Hemisphere’s oceans…
What the conflict would mean for British art was much debated in World War I – the question was already being asked in journals and newspaper reviews in the latter part of 1914. At the beginning debate…
After a financial crisis which highlighted and unearthed corrupt management, bad business practices and selfish acts of greed, maybe it’s time to evaluate the impact of a more spiritual form of leadership…
The latter days of Michael Gove’s time at the Department for Education were dominated by the Trojan Horse extremism plot in Birmingham. But in his four years as secretary of state, there were recurring…
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Lecturer in Social Anthropology, University of Reading
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Professor of Finance & Financial Technology and Head of the ICMA Centre, Henley Business School, University of Reading
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PhD Candidate, Pollination and Climate Change, University of Reading
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Professor of Neuroscience, Psychopharmacology and Mental Health, University of Reading
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Lecturer in German and Translation Studies, University of Reading
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Research Scientist in Hydrometeorology, University of Reading
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Visiting Professor of History, University of Reading / Worcester College Oxford, University of Reading
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Lecturer in Atmospheric Radiation, Composition and Climate, University of Reading
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Lecturer in Strategic Studies and International Relations, University of Reading
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Lecturer in Marketing, Henley Business School, University of Reading
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Sensory and Consumer Scientist, University of Reading
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Postdoctoral Research Scientist in Meteorology, University of Reading
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Professor of Early Prehistory, University of Reading
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Principal Horticultural Scientist (RHS)/RHS Fellow, University of Reading
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Professor of Applied Ecology, University of Reading
