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Peter Tymms
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Peter Tymms
@TymmsPeter
Emeritus Professor at Durham University https://t.co/DwCojGEZMB
North East, England Katılım Mart 2015
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Just published: The First Year at School: An International Perspective | SpringerLink
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I'm not going to tweet any more. Hope to see you somewhere else sometime.
BBC News - Charities' dismay as Twitter disbands safety group
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Have a look at Vijay's reading and viewing over the last month. wearstheevidence.wordpress.com/2022/12/01/boo…
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This is the 30th anniversary of Cambodia's landmine removal. Over a million landmines and three million explosives have been removed, and 2,531 km2 has been cleared for the construction of homes, schools, farms and roads. Deaths have fallen from 4,320 in 1996 to less than 100.
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Listening to Mala's father taking about education in Pakistan. Inspirational
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Great progress towards full literacy in Latin America over the last 120 years
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If you grow biofuel (wheat, sugar beet etc) it is 50 to 110 times less effective than covering the land with solar panels.
Thanks for this important, policy relevant factoid Michael le Page
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Angola is making steady progress in clearing its minefields. HALO, a British non-profit spearheading the effort, has cleared more than 10 million m2 since the end of the civil war in the 1990s. Much of that effort is being led by all-women teams
From Future Crunch
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Good news from McKinsey - "By 2035, renewables will generate 60% of the world’s electricity. But even these projections might be too low. Three years ago, we... asked, “How much faster can they grow?” The answer is: faster than you think they can."
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@Peston But isn't growth the source of climate change? Don't we want a world of stasis?
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The really grim news is that the Bank of England expects the UK to be in recession from mid this year all the way through to mid 2024. Dire. And then it expects growth to pick up only to an annualized anaemic rate if 0.75%. Really dire. And like to be made worse by Hunt’s…
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Season 2 of @thewesocietypodcast is now live! we launch w/ two excellent podcasts ft. Prof Lawrence Freedman on why Russia can’t win in Ukraine & Prof @LindaBauld on why a good public health system is important for a strong economy & society. Listen today apple.co/3TTfpSC
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An interesting set of books and films from two restricted months.
wearstheevidence.wordpress.com/2022/10/31/boo…
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Is it time for the UK to adopt this evidence based economic policy? A universal basic income. washingtonpost.com/magazine/2022/…
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The brazenness of this regressive funding of schools is quite astonishing.
Institute for Fiscal Studies@TheIFS
📊 #IFSSatStat: The new National Funding Formula has boosted funding for the most deprived fifth of schools the least (by less than 1%) since 2017. This follows bigger cuts for schools in deprived areas during the 2010s, esp. outside London, where educational outcomes are worst.
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