Participants in the Incredible
Years programme reported improved children's behaviour and more positive classrooms and home life, according to the results of randomised controlled trials by the National University of Ireland Maynooth.
Not exact matches
In March last
year, Reuters had
reported that Uber's Indian subsidiary was also reviewing Xchange Leasing India Pvt. Ltd, its cab - leasing
programme in the country, after drivers returned their leased cars in large numbers.
The graduating classes of 61 of the 100
programmes listed in 2010
reported an average salary increase of 60 per cent or less... The biggest salary increases were
reported by those who changed employer but stayed in the same industry; they achieved an average increase of 61 per cent, reaching a salary of $ 174,300 three
years after graduation.»
We have been over late - night television for
years now (even burning out on The Daily Show and Colbert
Report, I'm afraid) but Jimmy Fallon's new gig as host of this
programme has us actually watching it again.
«These latest scientific
reports — the first of a five
year monitoring and evaluation
programme — indicate that Commonwealth environmental water use during 2014 - 15 has contributed to positive outcomes for native fish, birds, frogs, and contributed to healthy waterways and productive environments.
However, lessons were learned from these early
programmes and in 2004, the Texas Fragile Families initiative
reported an increase in child support orders / paternity establishment among its participants (with a «dose» effect — the longer the young father was involved in the
programme, the more likely he was to establish paternity / pay child support); and employment rates up from 50 % at the start of the
programme to almost 70 % at six months and 80 % at one
year (Romo et al, 2004).
The second
report Fathers Matter 2 — Further Findings on Fathers and their Involvement with Social Care Services has progressed this work by outlining the findings of the FRG's two -
year action research
programme, which has included:
«Fathers at Work», a more recent multli - site US demonstration project which, like previous
programmes, combined work around fathering with training / employment support
reports participants earning $ 11,025 per
year at follow - up (about twice as much as a comparison group and on average $ 4,602 more than before entering the
programme).
This
report provides an overview of data collected on the reach and quality of nutrition
programmes during the pilot
year.
That their flagship research
programmes only began in 2012, had collected no data as yet, and were not in their fifth
year of running as the body had claimed in its annual
reports.
Committee members, publishing their
report into the MoD's equipment
programmes, also criticise delays to the Joint Strike Fighter
programme which will see two new aircraft carriers operating without air support when they enter service in six
years.
A decision on how the BBC will proceed with changes to its flagship
Reporting Scotland news
programme is expected later this
year.
«This investment will be essential to help taxpayers get to grips with their new digital
reporting requirements as HMRC's Making Tax Digital
programme is rolled out over the next 4
years.
The government's flagship welfare
programme will not be implemented before the autumn of 2021, four
years after its completion date, a
report by the committee has disclosed.
In its current form, the # 40m a
year programme employs the British society to snoop in and
report people who are suspected of harbouring extremist thoughts, who are then put through a re-education plan.
According to early
reports, this Memorandum cover the Greece's financing needs for the next three
years, but will require the harshest set of austerity measures of the three fiscal adjustment
programmes to date.
The
report says: «If the required assurances are not obtained by the end of the
year, we recommend that the MoD switch the majority of its effort and funding on the
programme into developing a fallback «Plan B», so that an alternative aircraft is available in case the UK has to withdraw from the joint strike fighter
programme.»
A
report released last
year found Duncan Smith's work
programme was worse at getting people into a job than if they had no intervention at all.
BLM spokesman Tom Gorey says the agency does plan to expand the
programme and will be releasing a response to the
report this
year.
FIVE more «crystal ball»
reports were published by the British government this week as part of its Technology Foresight
programme, which aims to identify technologies and markets vital to British industry over the next twenty
years.
The Obesity Health Alliance recently published a
report which found that almost 60 % of food and drink adverts shown during
programmes popular with adults and 4 - 16
year olds were for unhealthy foods which would be banned from children's TV channels.
«This
report is unusual since our
programme was discontinued nine
years ago, and this is the only
report after more than 500 million acres (200 million hectares) of wheat have been grown,» the company's statement read.
Funding: The research
reported in this article was carried out in the OA - barometer 2009 study, a one -
year project funded by the Nordbib research and development
programme (http://www.nordbib.net/).
The Week Junior, the UK's fastest growing children's subscription magazine, which has had 50,000 subscriptions in two
years, and OAT, a leading Multi-Academy Trust with 34 schools, decided to run the
programme in response to growing evidence, such as leading child development expert Dr Jacqueline Harding's research
report done in partnership with The Week Junior, showing that explaining and engaging children in learning about current affairs has development pupil benefits.
Nairobi, Kenya 5 March 2015 — A new
report launched today by Future First Global shows the transformative impact alumni are having in the employment potential for secondary school students Nairobi, The
report «An Alumni Community for Every School: Learning from Kenya pilot
programmes» examines a two
year pilot
programme across fifteen schools in Nairobi.
Play, Playtimes, Play Grounds, Lunchtimes This
report published by the National Children's Bureau evaluates the impact of the Outdoor Play and Learning (OPAL)
programme developed by South Gloucestershire Council learning and school effectiveness service and run in over 70 % of the authority's primary schools over six
years.
As
reported by the BBC, the Food 365
programme would ensure every child is fed on the 175 days of the
year when lunches are not served in school.
We will use the learning from this
report to inform the scale up of our
programme into eight new counties in Kenya this
year, and into four new countries outside of Kenya», said Emily Laurie, Managing Director at Future First Global.
The
report «An Alumni Community for Every School: Learning from Kenya pilot
programmes» examines a two
year pilot
programme across fifteen schools in Nairobi.
The APPG
report makes a wide range of recommendations, including: increasing the number of specialist PE teachers in primary schools; having a designated physical activity co-ordinator in every early
years setting; creating teams in every school dedicated to promoting all types of physical activity; all schools examining how they can improve the PE experience for disabled children; embedding PE into all teacher training
programmes
Instead, the
report recommends a ten -
year programme of social reform, which it believes should have the key objective of narrowing the attainment gap at GCSE between poorer children and their better - off classmates by two - thirds.
Last
year the BBC's Panorama
programme reported that more than 169 schools had fallen victim to the widely publicised large ‑ scale equipment leasing scandal, with some schools signing deals that left them paying as much as 10 times the value of the leased computers and photocopiers.
• The Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) Select Committee in the House of Commons should monitor and
report on higher education funding and provision each
year, assessing the impact of changes on disadvantaged students, as well as mature and part - timers; • Better co-ordination between higher education ministers from England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland to rationalise student funding policies across the UK; • An investigation by the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) into the impact of the latest changes to grants and loans, to ensure value for money for students and taxpayers; • Stronger evaluation of university spending of # 750m a
year on outreach and access
programmes to maximise their impact.
The
report also recommended that student loans should be written off for teachers after they had worked in challenging schools for five
years and that schools in the ten struggling council areas should be forced to take part in improvement
programmes so that none was rated «inadequate» by Ofsted and all progressed to «good» by 2020.
The performance tables
report pupil's results in the
year in which they complete the KS2
programme of study.
The
report says that
programme was particularly successful in London where it ran for eight
years, first as the London Challenge and later as City Challenge.
There is now a formal screening
programme for goniodysgenesis in flatcoats in the UK and whilst the scheme has not been without its critics, it is encouraging that there already seem fewer
reports of affected dogs than there were five
years ago.
Just last
year, Blanton, whose name has been on these annual
reports since 2008, teamed up with Fenwick and five others to co-author Rabies Prevention and Management of Cats in the Context of Trap - Neuter - Vaccinate - Release
Programmes — an indefensible misrepresentation of the science (intended, obviously, to undermine TNR).
Phil Downing: [W] hen we released the
report last
year, we did comment that we had started to note in purely qualitative terms that people were making reference to that
programme, or had picked up on some of the secondary press -LSB-...] So we were saying this might be playing a role because this was the first time we were picking it up.
By the end of the same
year a total of US$ 24 million had been approved by the Policy Board for quick start action for country
programmes to prepare national REDD + strategies, engage stakeholders and develop measurement,
reporting and verification (MRV) systems.
A coalition launched today at the climate talks in Lima aims to boost efforts to save billions of dollars and billions of tonnes of CO2 emissions each
year by measuring and
reporting reductions of greenhouse gas emissions resulting from projects and
programmes that promote renewable energy and energy efficiency in developing countries.
Countries must also agree to a detailed one
year work
programme under the UNFCCC to consider a full range of innovative sources of public finance and
report back to COP 18 with a proposal for action.
This briefing launched the latest
report from the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills» Foresight
programme, examining how the profound changes in natural and human environments across the world will influence and interact with patterns of global migration over the next 50
years.
Nature
reports that this sort of issue is being addressed in a 3
year $ 60m EU
programme called TWENTIES, a consortium of 26 academic and industrial partners.
The LEGO Group conducted an engagement
programme with suppliers, Engage to Reduce (E2R) to
report and minimise CO2 emissions, and during the next three
years it will step - up the
programme to include more than 80 % of its supply chain and set goals for CO2 reduction based on climate science.
This activity
report showcases a four -
year programme supporting work in 11 African least developed countries within the
Programme on Climate Information for Resilient Development in Africa (CIRDA).
Nearly a quarter of businesses surveyed recently by accountants PwC said they had no formal business ethics and compliance
programme in place, despite nearly half
reporting that their business had suffered fraud in the previous two
years.
com GLOBAL CARTEL
REPORT: ANTITRUST ENFORCEMENT AUTHORITIES REMAIN ACTIVE DESPITE NEARLY 50 % DROP IN FINES Produced by the firm's leading antitrust and competition team, the cartel report is a compre - hensive analysis exam - ining the following 2017 trends in antitrust compli - ance programmes and antitrust criminal liability: • A significant uptick in enforcement directed toward domestic cartels and individual criminal prosecutions • Continued scrutiny of the auto parts, financial services, and shipping in - dustries • A prioritization by more countries of anti-cartel enforcement, particular - ly in Asia • The expansion of glob - al authorities» extraterri - torial jurisdiction (Source: Morgan Lewis) Consistent with recent years, global enforce - ment authorities re - mained extremely ac - tive in 2017, opening many new investigations and advancing others, according to Morgan Lewis's latest Global Car - tel Enforcement R
REPORT: ANTITRUST ENFORCEMENT AUTHORITIES REMAIN ACTIVE DESPITE NEARLY 50 % DROP IN FINES Produced by the firm's leading antitrust and competition team, the cartel report is a compre - hensive analysis exam - ining the following 2017 trends in antitrust compli - ance programmes and antitrust criminal liability: • A significant uptick in enforcement directed toward domestic cartels and individual criminal prosecutions • Continued scrutiny of the auto parts, financial services, and shipping in - dustries • A prioritization by more countries of anti-cartel enforcement, particular - ly in Asia • The expansion of glob - al authorities» extraterri - torial jurisdiction (Source: Morgan Lewis) Consistent with recent years, global enforce - ment authorities re - mained extremely ac - tive in 2017, opening many new investigations and advancing others, according to Morgan Lewis's latest Global Car - tel Enforcement R
REPORT: ANTITRUST ENFORCEMENT AUTHORITIES REMAIN ACTIVE DESPITE NEARLY 50 % DROP IN FINES Produced by the firm's leading antitrust and competition team, the cartel
report is a compre - hensive analysis exam - ining the following 2017 trends in antitrust compli - ance programmes and antitrust criminal liability: • A significant uptick in enforcement directed toward domestic cartels and individual criminal prosecutions • Continued scrutiny of the auto parts, financial services, and shipping in - dustries • A prioritization by more countries of anti-cartel enforcement, particular - ly in Asia • The expansion of glob - al authorities» extraterri - torial jurisdiction (Source: Morgan Lewis) Consistent with recent years, global enforce - ment authorities re - mained extremely ac - tive in 2017, opening many new investigations and advancing others, according to Morgan Lewis's latest Global Car - tel Enforcement R
report is a compre - hensive analysis exam - ining the following 2017 trends in antitrust compli - ance programmes and antitrust criminal liability: • A significant uptick in enforcement directed toward domestic cartels and individual criminal prosecutions • Continued scrutiny of the auto parts, financial services, and shipping in - dustries • A prioritization by more countries of anti-cartel enforcement, particular - ly in Asia • The expansion of glob - al authorities» extraterri - torial jurisdiction (Source: Morgan Lewis) Consistent with recent years, global enforce - ment authorities re - mained extremely ac - tive in 2017, opening many new investigations and advancing others, according to Morgan Lewis's latest Global Car - tel Enforcement R
report is a compre - hensive analysis exam - ining the following 2017 trends in antitrust compli - ance
programmes and antitrust criminal liability: • A significant uptick in enforcement directed toward domestic cartels and individual criminal prosecutions • Continued scrutiny of the auto parts, financial services, and shipping in - dustries • A prioritization by more countries of anti-cartel enforcement, particular - ly in Asia • The expansion of glob - al authorities» extraterri - torial jurisdiction (Source: Morgan Lewis) Consistent with recent
years, global enforce - ment authorities re - mained extremely ac - tive in 2017, opening many new investigations and advancing others, according to Morgan Lewis's latest Global Car - tel Enforcement
ReportReportReport.
Until July she was Newsnight's chief correspondent and a regular presenter of the
programme after a spell as ITV News business editor, and many
years reporting on politics for a wide range of BBC News
programmes.
Disrupt Africa
reported last
year Startupbootcamp was seeking corporate backing to launch a three -
year programme of accelerators in South Africa, and it has now obtained that through partnerships with BNP Paribas and PwC.