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Moms have few interactions with their infants during TV time
Infants who are exposed to television and video in low socio-economic households tend to have limited verbal interactions with their mothers.   view more (2008-05-06)

Study assesses TV viewing and verbal interactions among low-income parents and infants
Mothers in low-income families seldom speak to their infants while the children are watching television or videos, which most do on a daily basis.   view more (2008-05-06)

Quality, quantity lacking in children's educational TV, study says
Commercial broadcasters are doing the "bare minimum and not much more" for children's educational programming.   view more (2008-11-13)

Invitation to the Media - Forum in Brighton gazes into the future of educational television
The days of educational television relegated to the middle of the night could soon be numbered. Instead, in the near future, viewers could watch a personalised television channel with programmes on demand. And their TV could put them in touch with others on the same course to compare notes and... view more (2002-07-04)

Why embryos need a good diet
A thick-coated vole and a man with cardiovascular disease have something in common: both are doing what their mothers told them. They are part of the developmental programming phenomenon that is broader than many acknowledge, according to a review paper published in The Journal of Physiology.   view more (2005-05-12)

Listen out for bugs that sing
A Northumbria University lecturer has helped devise a scheme to use music to catch computer bugs. Dr Paul Vickers from Northumbria and Professor James Alty from Loughborough University's Department of Computer Science have come up with an idea that would see features of computer programming... view more (2002-11-21)

Researching Education - Widening the Debate
The report brings research on schools, further and higher education into the necessary relationship with the wider educational scenario that the government has sought to promote. It is an interesting review of the field of educational research and one which illuminates the current intensive... view more (1999-07-15)

Unleashing Parent Power
The way to unlock "parent power" when it comes to children's academic achievement is to be revealed by psychologists. Confusion about the role of parents in schooling can be seen in the terms used to describe them in the press and literature, such 'partners', 'consumers' and even... view more (2004-01-08)

New President for The British Psychological Society
The British Psychological Society's new President, Tommy MacKay, begins his year of office on Friday 14 April at the Society's Annual Conference, held at the Guildhall, Winchester. Tommy MacKay's background is in educational psychology. He runs Psychology Consultancy Services jointly with his wife... view more (2000-04-10)

Students affected in different ways by exam anxiety
These were the findings of a study published today, Monday 13 March, in the British Journal of Educational Psychology, by David McIlroy of the University of Ulster at Jordanstown.   view more (2000-03-06)

NDRI researchers evaluate prison Hepatitis program
In an article published in the Journal of Correctional Health Care, researchers from the National Development and Research Institutes, Inc. (NDRI) reported on an evaluation of an intervention program within a prison system addressing Hepatitis C virus (HCV).   view more (2006-03-03)

Children and home computers: living up to parental aspirations?
Most parents regard supporting their children's education as a major motivator for buying a home computer. However most children are using them to play games. These are the findings of recent research, carried out by Lucinda Kerawalla and Dr Charles Crook, presented today, Thursday 28 June, at the... view more (2001-06-25)

TV has negative impact on very young children's learning abilities
Television viewing before the age of three may have adverse effects on subsequent cognitive development, according to a study in the July issue of Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.   view more (2005-07-05)

Educational inequality major factor in lack of social cohesion
The UK is falling behind the Netherlands, Denmark and Norway in its efforts to create a more cohesive society according to new research from the Institute of Education. Education, Equity and Social Cohesion: A Distributional Model by Andy Green, John Preston and Ricardo Sabates finds greater... view more (2003-04-24)

Computers learn how to create drugs of the future
The key role of computer technology in the fine-tuning of drug development and design will be considered by Professor Stephen Muggleton of Imperial College, London in his inaugural lecture, Models of Mind and Models of Body, today. The new Professor of Bioinformatics in the Department of Computing... view more (2002-04-30)

Trust doctors: the new lost tribe?
Delivery of acute care in the NHS is going to increasingly depend on doctors who are receiving little educational supervision as the number of trust doctors (doctors in non-training grades) rises, say researchers from Leeds University in this week's BMJ. Their survey of acute Trusts in Yorkshire... view more (2002-08-28)

Study will examine how children with Down syndrome learn
Researchers at the University of Denver (DU) Morgridge College of Education are conducting a groundbreaking study that will compare two early literacy intervention approaches to educating young children with Down syndrome.   view more (2008-10-27)

The ESO Educational Office Reaches Out towards Europe`s Teachers
ESA/ESO Astronomy Exercises Provide a Taste of Real Astronomy The European Southern Observatory (ESO) has been involved in many Europe-wide educational projects during the past years, in particular within European Science Weeks sponsored by the European Commission (EC). In order to further enhance... view more (2001-12-17)

Getting Relief from Pain Can Be Shocking
People suffering from chronic pain caused by a nerve injury are experiencing relief through the use of electrical stimulation of the spinal cord. The journal Neuromodulation, published by Blackwell on behalf of the International Neuromodulation Society and the International Functional Electrical... view more (2004-07-26)

Good code, bad computations: A computer security gray area
If you want to make sure your computer or server is not tricked into undertaking malicious or undesirable behavior, it's not enough to keep bad code out of the system. Two graduate students from UC San Diego's computer science department have just published work showing that the process of building... view more (2008-10-28)

Classroom misbehaviour - who's to blame?
Theses were the findings of a study published today, Monday 13 March, in the British Journal of Educational Psychology, by Dr Andy Miller and Dr Eamonn Ferguson of Nottingham University, and Irene Byrne, formerly of the Lancashire Educational Psychology Service.   view more (2000-03-06)

Baby DVDs, videos may hinder, not help, infants' language development
Despite marketing claims, parents who want to give their infants a boost in learning language probably should limit the amount of time they expose their children to DVDs and videos such as "Baby Einstein" and "Brainy Baby."   view more (2007-08-08)

Premature babies show poor school performance
Up to a third of children born between 32 and 35 weeks gestation will have some form of school problem, finds a study in Archives of Disease in Childhood. Given the large number of surviving children in this gestational age group, this finding has important implications for educational services,... view more (2001-06-19)

Onley Young Offenders Gain Educational Qualifications by Digging a Hole Thanks to University of Warwick and Channel 4's Big Dig
Four residents of Her Majesty's Young Offenders Institution and Remand Centre, Onley, are to gain some educational qualifications by digging an archaeological test pit in the establishment's market garden area thanks to University of Warwick and Channel 4's "Big Dig" Senior Officer Peter... view more (2003-06-26)

Consequences of exposure to an energy rich diet during development
The World Health Organisation recognises the world-wide epidemic increase of obesity-related cardiovascular and metabolic disease as one of the most important health issues of the new millennium. Although this obesity is in part due to the fact that many of us eat a diet high in saturated fat and... view more (2005-05-12)
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