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Extra funding should be made available for early years care in the wake of the pandemic, researchers say.
Experts at the University of Leeds, University of Oxford and Oxford Brookes University have made the call after assessing the benefits of early childhood education and care (ECEC) for children under three during COVID-19.
They found children who attended childcare outside the home throughout the first UK lockdown made greater gains in language and thinking skills, particularly if they were from less advantaged backgrounds.
And now they are making several policy recommendations including
- A sustainable funding model for nursery provision
Greek Professor Wins Horace Mann Medal for Research, Societal Impact
” width=”707″>Professor Ares Rosakis of Caltech (second from right) has won the Horace Mann Medal for his research and the societal impact it has had. Credit: Rosakis.caltech.edu
Greek-born Professor Ares Rosakis, a graduate of Athens College, has won the 2020/2021 Horace Mann Medal for his research and mentoring skills, as well as being “a champion of societal impact that can be realized through the sciences.”
The Medal is awarded during every Commencement to a Brown University graduate school alum who has made significant contributions in their field. Much of his research can be applied to better construction techniques to lessen the effects of earthquakes.
KWR: When I started writing
Vindicated, I wrote about the moment of Mary Shelley’s birth and the strange circumstances of her birth: the fact that her mother was this famous and somewhat infamous woman, Mary Wollstonecraft, who died of septicemia (blood poisoning) and of a retained placenta 11 days after Mary was born. Oddly, the physicians who were attending the birth brought in puppies to nurse Mary Wollstonecraft instead of bringing her child in, and that was the strangest thing. I had been a nurse in labor and delivery, and it sounded really odd. But after I wrote that prologue, I read a biography of Mary Shelley and found out that she was so much more than the author of