scholarly journals Is there a North–South divide between schools in England?

2018 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. 37-40
Author(s):  
Michael Jopling
Keyword(s):  
School Performance ◽  
Performance Data ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Popular Discourse ◽  
North East ◽  
The North ◽  
National School ◽  
Opinion Piece ◽  
The Media

The article is an opinion piece which examines the extent to which rhetoric about a North–South divide in performance between schools in England is justified. Starting with the catalyst, Sir Michael Wilshaw’s final annual Ofsted reports in 2015 and 2016, it traces how the divide rhetoric has been assimilated into popular discourse by the media and subsequent policy reports, notably in connection with the Northern Powerhouse agenda. The article uses regional school performance data to examine whether claims about the divide are convincing, focusing on the North East, which has been recognized as an outlier in both primary and secondary performance. It concludes that the case for a North–South divide is not proven, and with an appeal for more contextually sensitive and flexible approaches to assessing local, regional and national school performance to counter the negative effects of this divisive rhetoric.

scholarly journals Improving access to Early Intervention in Psychosis (EIP): the 2-week wait for cancer comes to psychosis

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. e000190
Author(s):  
Kirit Singh ◽  
Fatima Ghazi ◽  
Rebecca White ◽  
Benedicta Sarfo-Adu ◽  
Peter Carter
Keyword(s):  
Early Intervention ◽  
Previous Treatment ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Eligibility Criteria ◽  
North East ◽  
The North ◽  
Allocation Process ◽  
Case Allocation ◽  
Early Intervention In Psychosis ◽  
The Impact

Early Intervention in Psychosis (EIP) services aim to rapidly initiate specialist packages of care for those people newly experiencing symptoms. The intention of such rapid engagement is to mitigate the negative effects of a prolonged duration of untreated psychosis. Aiming to achieve a ‘parity of esteem’ between mental and physical health, a new target was introduced by the National Health Service (NHS) England, where 50% of new referrals were expected to receive a concordant package of care within 2 weeks from the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence. A baseline assessment in late 2014 found that just 21% of all referrals received and accepted met this target within the EIP Team for the North-East London NHS Foundation Trust. This project sought to improve the team’s performance, seeking input from all team members and using an iterative process with the primary aim of meeting the target ahead of its roll-out. It was determined that the relatively high number of inappropriate referrals (34% at baseline) is a key causative agent in delaying staff from processing eligible cases in a timely fashion. These are defined as referrals which do not meet basic eligibility criteria such as no previous treatment for psychosis. Interventions were therefore designed targeting three domains of improving staff awareness of the new target, improving efficiency by changing the case allocation process and improving the referral pathway for external sources. The impact of these changes was re-evaluated over two cycles beyond baseline. By the final cycle, 62% of new referrals were seen within 2 weeks, while inappropriate referrals declined to just 3%. The multi-interventional nature of this project limits its generalisability and further work should be carried out to identify those changes that were most impactful. Nevertheless, focused targeting of the referral pathway may prove to be of benefit to other EIP services struggling with lengthy wait times.

European Goldfinches Carduelis carduelis as pets in Algeria: numbers and social dimension of a conservation issue

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-9
Author(s):  
ALDJIA LOUADJ ◽  
IMANE RAZKALLAH ◽  
SADEK ATOUSSI ◽  
VINCENT NIJMAN ◽  
MOUSLIM BARA ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Dimension ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Awareness Campaigns ◽  
North East ◽  
The North ◽  
Mediterranean Countries ◽  
In Captivity ◽  
Strict Enforcement ◽  
Carduelis Carduelis ◽  
The City

Summary Since antiquity, the keeping of finches as pets has been common throughout the Mediterranean countries and it remains a widespread hobby to the present day. Since most finches are sourced from the wild this hobby can have implications for their conservation, especially for already imperilled species. We conducted a survey of 257 households in the city of Guelma, in the north-east of Algeria, and of 70 participants to a European Goldfinch Carduelis carduelis show contest in Algiers, to understand the owners’ motives for keeping cage birds and find solutions to mitigate any negative effects on the trade. Keeping and showing finches in Algeria is a male-dominated hobby, especially for the 30–40 year age bracket. Our surveys indicate that almost 60% of households had a cage bird, with the European Goldfinch being the most popular species. With a mean of 0.75 goldfinches per household we estimate that in Guelma alone some 17,000 are kept in captivity. Between 70% and 90% of the owners indicated that their birds were indeed wild-sourced, and over 85% of them were aware of the protected status of the European Goldfinch in Algeria. Our findings underline the need for strict enforcement of existing laws and better targeted awareness campaigns to influence the behaviour of owners in order to reduce the demand for wild specimens.

GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION AND MIGRATION ANALYSIS OF HEIGHT, WEIGHT AND BODY MASS INDEX IN A BRITISH COHORT STUDY

2011 ◽  
Vol 43 (6) ◽  
pp. 733-749 ◽  
Author(s):  
MONIKA KRZYŻANOWSKA ◽  
C. G. NICHOLAS MASCIE-TAYLOR
Keyword(s):  
Body Mass Index ◽  
Body Mass ◽  
The South ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
North West ◽  
North East ◽  
The North ◽  
South West ◽  
East Midlands ◽  
West Midlands

SummaryUsing a sample of 2090 father and son pairs, the regional variation in height, weight and body mass index (BMI) with intra- and inter-generational migration within Britain was examined. Highly significant regional differences in means were found only for fathers. The overall mean height difference between regions ranged from about 2.7 cm to 3.1 cm, with the tallest fathers being found in the East & South-East region and the shortest in Wales. The variation in mean weight between regions was less significant, with the difference between the heaviest region (West Midlands) and lightest (South-West) being about 3.5 kg. For BMI the highest mean was in the North and Wales and the lowest in the South-West (difference of about 1 kg m−2). Intra-generational migrants were, on average, significantly taller than non-migrants for both fathers (+1.4 cm) and sons (+2 cm), but BMI was only significant in fathers, with migrant fathers, on average, having a lower BMI. There were no significant differences in weight between geographically mobile groups for either fathers or sons. Differentiating between regional in- and out-migration revealed that in the fathers' generation in-migrants were taller, on average, in six of the nine regions. The tallest in-migrants among fathers came into the North region; the tallest out-migrants were from Yorkshire & Humberside and the shortest were from Scotland. The largest positive gain on fathers' height was in the West Midlands region and Scotland, while negative effects were found in the Yorkshire & Humberside, East Midlands and East & South-East regions. For sons in-migrants were taller in all regions except Wales, with the largest differences between in-migrants and non-migrants being in the South-East and South-West. For out-migrants, the tallest sons came from Wales, while the shortest came from the East Midlands region. The North, East Midlands, East & South-East and West Midlands regions were net gainers, while Wales and Scotland were net losers. For BMI among fathers, in-migrants were of lower BMI than non-migrants. For out-migrant fathers, the North-West and South-West regions were the only two regions showing positive values, with the largest negative values being found in the East Midlands and Yorkshire & Humberside. The net effect of migration indicated that the largest gains were in the East Midlands and Yorkshire & Humberside regions and the largest losses were in Scotland and Wales. The inter-generational migration for BMI showed that in-migrating sons into the North-West and Wales had higher BMI than sedentes, while in-migrants into Yorkshire & Humberside were lower in BMI. In all regions out-migrants had lower BMI than non-migrants. The net effect of migration revealed that six of the nine regions were net gainers, while the Yorkshire & Humberside region was a net loser.

Is sediment mud content a significant predictor of macrobenthos abundance in low-mud-content tidal flats?

2009 ◽  
Vol 60 (2) ◽  
pp. 160 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. Sakamaki ◽  
O. Nishimura
Keyword(s):  
East Coast ◽  
Narrow Range ◽  
Cohesive Sediments ◽  
Soft Bottom ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Sediment Properties ◽  
North East ◽  
The North ◽  
Bed Elevation ◽  
Study Support

Sediment mud content is a significant predictor of macrobenthos abundance in marine soft-bottom habitats. However, the mechanisms behind the non-linearity generally shown in mud–macrobenthos relationships have not been examined. The present study analysed spatial distributions of sediment properties and macrobenthos in a tidal flat system of the north-east coast of Japan and tested the hypothesis: the non-linearity of mud–macrobenthos relationship corresponds to changes in bed elevation variability and sediment cohesiveness. For two macrobenthos species studied, Nuttallia olivacea (Bivalvia) and Hediste spp. (Polychaeta), the relationships between mud content (<75 μm) and their density showed discontinuities at ~0.1% and ~20% mud contents. In stations with <0.1% mud content, the densities of both species were related positively to mud content and negatively to bed elevation variability, suggesting that mud content reflected negative effects of bed elevation variability on macrobenthos abundance. The stations where distinct changes were observed in macrobenthos densities below or above ~20% mud content were within an area where a shift between non-cohesive and cohesive sediments was found. Hence, the results of the present study support the hypothesis and also suggest that sediment mud content can be a sensitive predictor of macrobenthos abundance even within a relatively low and narrow range of mud content.

India's First Dictatorship

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christophe Jaffrelot ◽  
Pratinav Anil
Keyword(s):  
Trade Unions ◽  
Urban Slum ◽  
Authoritarian Rule ◽  
State Of Emergency ◽  
Political Factors ◽  
North East ◽  
The North ◽  
Slum Dwellers ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Impact

In June 1975 Prime Minister Indira Gandhi imposed a state of emergency, resulting in a twenty-one-month suspension of democracy. Jaffrelot and Anil revisit the Emergency to re-evaluate characterisations of India as the ‘world’s largest democracy.’ They explore India’s first experiment with authoritarianism, which resulted in a constitutional dictatorship with an unequal impact across states. The impact was felt more strongly in the capital, its neighbouring states and in the Hindi belt than in states ruled by the opposition—the North East and South India. This was largely due to the resilience of federalism and local socio-political factors in these regions. India’s First Dictatorship focuses on Mrs Gandhi and her son, Sanjay, who was largely responsible for the mass sterilization programs and deportation of urban slum-dwellers. However, it equally exposes the facilitation of authoritarian rule by Congressmen, Communists, trade unions, businessmen and the urban middle class, as well as the complacency of the judiciary and media. While opposition leaders eventually ended up in jail, many of them—especially in the RSS—tried to collaborate with the new regime. Those who resisted the Emergency, in the media or on the streets, were far and few between. The Emergency accentuated India’s political culture, which is reflected in the current zeitgeist, as the illiberal aspects of Indian democracy yet again resurface with the rise of Hindu nationalist authoritarian populism. This episode was neither a parenthesis nor a turning point, but a style of rule that is very much alive today.

scholarly journals Everyday Re-Bordering and the Intersections of Borderwork, Boundary Work and Emotion Work amongst Romanians Living in the UK

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 551-558
Author(s):  
Kathryn Cassidy
Keyword(s):  
Participant Observation ◽  
Boundary Work ◽  
Emotion Work ◽  
Equal Access ◽  
Social Hierarchies ◽  
North East ◽  
The North ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The Eu

This article explores the intersections of borderwork and boundary work in everyday encounters in the UK. It focuses on the experiences of Romanian nationals, who between 2007 and 2014 were subject to transitional controls, which are understood as a form of everyday re-bordering of the de-bordered space of the EU that denied equal access to the labour market and state support. These controls were accompanied by a range of bordering discourses in the media and political circles that firmly situated Romanians outside of the UK’s contemporary political project of belonging. This article argues that in order to understand borderwork in everyday life, we need to explore how it relates to boundary work, i.e. the differential positionalities of Romanians within social hierarchies, as well as their experiences of and engagement with emotion work. The data analysed comes from participant observation with Romanian communities in London and the North East of England in the period from 2009 to 2014.

Ras al Khaimah: further archaeological discoveries

Antiquity ◽  
1976 ◽  
Vol 50 (200) ◽  
pp. 216-222
Author(s):  
Beatrice De Cardi
Keyword(s):  
United Arab Emirates ◽  
The State ◽  
Focused Attention ◽  
North East ◽  
The North ◽  
History Of ◽  
The City

Ras a1 Khaimah is the most northerly of the seven states comprising the United Arab Emirates and its Ruler, H. H. Sheikh Saqr bin Mohammad al-Qasimi, is keenly interested in the history of the state and its people. Survey carried out there jointly with Dr D. B. Doe in 1968 had focused attention on the site of JuIfar which lies just north of the present town of Ras a1 Khaimah (de Cardi, 1971, 230-2). Julfar was in existence in Abbasid times and its importance as an entrep6t during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries-the Portuguese Period-is reflected by the quantity and variety of imported wares to be found among the ruins of the city. Most of the sites discovered during the survey dated from that period but a group of cairns near Ghalilah and some long gabled graves in the Shimal area to the north-east of the date-groves behind Ras a1 Khaimah (map, FIG. I) clearly represented a more distant past.

The More Control, the Better?

2014 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 81-91 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeeyun Oh ◽  
Mun-Young Chung ◽  
Sangyong Han
Keyword(s):  
Mixed Design ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Story Structure ◽  
Content Type ◽  
High User ◽  
User Control ◽  
Rigorous Research ◽  
Control Versus ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Impact

Despite of the popularity of interactive movie trailers, rigorous research on one of the most apparent features of these interfaces – the level of user control – has been scarce. This study explored the effects of user control on users’ immersion and enjoyment of the movie trailers, moderated by the content type. We conducted a 2 (high user control versus low user control) × 2 (drama film trailer versus documentary film trailer) mixed-design factorial experiment. The results showed that the level of user control over movie trailer interfaces decreased users’ immersion when the trailer had an element of traditional story structure, such as a drama film trailer. Participants in the high user control condition answered that they were less fascinated with, absorbed in, focused on, mentally involved with, and emotionally affected by the movie trailer than participants in the low user control condition only with the drama movie trailer. The negative effects of user control on the level of immersion for the drama trailer translated into users’ enjoyment. The impact of user control over interfaces on immersion and enjoyment varies depending on the nature of the media content, which suggests a possible trade-off between the level of user control and entertainment outcomes.

Lichens in the North-East regions of Cyprus

1999 ◽  
Vol 110 (5-6) ◽  
pp. 455-463 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Güvenç ◽  
Ş Öztürk
Keyword(s):  
North East ◽  
The North
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