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Sitting for long periods affect on teens’ mental health, resumés for robots and more in the news roundup

Psych Learning Curve

The new PhD (The Chronicle of Higher Education) Many doctoral students will not go on to tenure-track professorships, so why should they devote their grad school years to producing a traditional dissertation mainly of value inside academe? However, these are often reserved for contrived examples that are considered safe for the classroom.

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Nurturing Global Citizenship Through ‘British Values’ (Book Release: Developing Quality PSHE in Secondary Schools and Colleges)

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In the introduction to this chapter, Wilson makes a poignant link to the Equality Act with regards to nurturing belonging, psychological safety and developing confidence.* The word ‘respect’ appears many times throughout this chapter and used extensively by Chowdury when talking about tackling controversial issues.*