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Deepbridge Appoints New Senior Investment Director
Venture capital investment specialists, Deepbridge Capital, today announces the appointment of Dr Andy Round as Senior Investment Director. As an experienced life sciences investment specialist, most recently as Director and Head of Healthcare at Praetura Ventures and previously at both Maven Capital Partners and MSIF, Dr Round will be working within Deepbridge’s Life Sciences Investment Team which manages the Deepbridge Life Sciences EIS fund.
Interrogating reality - How we attend is key to learning
Life offers up to us a surfeit of detail. Even when we are doing little, we are inundated by impressions. Details continually form themselves together to construct our memories. We pare the surplus information down through perceptual and cognitive filters. These become honed and refined over time on the basis of what has worked well for us in the past. This means we don’t need to reinvent our responses to everyday events every time we encounter them.
Trying on the world - The case for drama
Drama in the classroom The theatre director Jessica Swale makes an interesting distinction: ‘theatre is a medium of performance created for the benefit of an audience, drama exists for the benefit of its own participants’. To some extent this is the difference between drama intended to promote creative engagement with a subject – like English, or history – and the study of theatre and the texts of plays.
Maintaining academic momentum - The case for studying short stories
Minding the gap Changing schools, changing teachers, changing friends can turn primary school security into secondary school isolation. Students may become, in Ian McEwan’s words, ‘perfect outsiders … constantly baffled and irritated by the changes they are experiencing.’ The young adult can feel, both in academic work and in life, that they are part of what Frank O’Connor called a ‘submerged population’ – lonely, isolated, out of their depth.
Generation Gifted review: 'Has the idea that "poor kids underachieve" now been accepted as a given?'
Why is it always the same disadvantaged students sliding down the same seemingly inevitable slope to failure? A real danger in education today is that the idea that "poor kids underachieve" has become such a familiar trope that it is accepted as a given. An analysis of performance tables consistently shows that poor students are twice as likely to have a SEN statement, three times as likely to be excluded and half as likely to achieve the top GCSE grades as their better-off classmates.
Generation Gifted, episode two, reviewed: 'Disadvantaged students who believe in glass ceilings will sabotage themselves'
Able students sometimes have trouble connecting personal effort to achievement, seeing it as something beyond their control. Much of what they do and learn can be achieved with relatively little effort. While this may seem to be a good position to occupy, it has its drawbacks. If they succeed, it can somehow be put down to luck or some other external factor. This attitude can make students feel as if the effort is pointless.
How to stretch the more able: go off-piste, define differentiation and avoid time-wasting marking
Conference chair Ian Warwick addresses some of the questions posed by delegates at the 'Stretch and Challenge the More Able' event. Like a GPS, teachers are prone to denying students responsibility for their own path-finding We're told the curriculum is about mastering all learning at a child's own level and not working beyond their own age group. Where do we stand with Ofsted if we go off-piste? I've had several conversations with Ofsted on this issue, particularly regarding the 2015 report.
Learning environment and emotional well-being: A qualitative study of undergraduate nursing students.
Publication HistoryPublished online: September 21, 2017Accepted: September 14, 2017; Received in revised form: August 21, 2017; Received: October 7, 2016;
World Class: Tackling the Ten Biggest Challenges Facing Schools Today (Paperback) - Routledge
Every school is different, but all schools face very similar challenges. Drawing on their combined teaching experience of over fifty years in both independent and state schools, educationalists David James and Ian Warwick have chosen ten questions that tackle the most difficult challenges that face schools today, and invited leading education experts to address them in stimulating and accessible essays, which are each under a thousand words.
Health devolution deal is a key moment for Manchester - and England
Manchester is becoming master of its own destiny with a new “united” approach to health and social care. A newly established body, The Greater Manchester Combined Authority, has taken direct control of £6bn worth of funding, and will decide when and where to spend it. It comes as part of a deal to devolve health powers from central government.
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