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Circadian Stimulus
LRC Releases New Circadian Stimulus Calculator The new calculator has greater functionality to aid lighting designers in the selection of light sources and light levels for “circadian-effective light exposure in …
W10 App Colour Changes
Please note, we cannot provide any warranty that these methods work, but one thing seems to be sure – it hasn’t got easier in Windows 10 to make these kinds …
Colour Changes
A BBC “HowTo” guide for changing your screen colours.These guides explain how you can change the text and background colours in your operating system (Windows, Mac or Linux) and browser …
CVS Study
A cross-sectional study was conducted among medical and engineering college students of a University situated in the suburban area of Chennai. Students who used computer in the month preceding the …
Asthenopia in Children
Although asthenopia is a frequent and relevant clinical problem in childhood, with potential consequences for learning, the scarcity of studies about the prevalence and clinical impact of asthenopia hinders the …
What is – Disability?
You’re disabled under the Equality Act 2010 if you have a physical or mental impairment that has a ‘substantial’ and ‘long-term’ negative effect on your ability to do normal daily …
Digital Accessibility
Hooray – the time has come the Walrus said for many things and eye-strain (Asthenopia) Computer Vision Syndrome or Screen Fatigue as a disability which has, for far to long, …
Work with purpose…
Three-quarters (78 percent) of thriving employees in the UK, those who feel fulfilled personally and professionally, say their company has a strong sense of purpose. To find purpose, employees crave …
Stress
Stress-inducing situations are one of the biggest reasons for why employees are unable to go to work, according to research. A survey of 500 HRs by Group Risk Development (GRiD) …
Lazy eyes everywhere?
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Primary School Counselling
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DSE Regulation
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Lazy eyes
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Lifestyle Choices
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Genetics?
Is crime a matter of genetics? Even the researchers note that with “positive learning experiences” the exacerbating stress related negative affect on their personalities could be minimalised breaking the foreseeable …
International Ergonomics
When working across multiple regions in a global environment, safety managers will want to understand the key regulations related to MSDs so as not to fall foul of the compliance …
My computer…
MY way! Let AbilityNet help you set up your computer your way!
Score my screen.
How fast can your screen ergonomics deliver text to your eyes?
Mental Health Challenge
of the digital world.
Is there is…?
or is there ain’t Computer Vision Syndrome… It actually all depends on who you speak to and how long they have had to or how well they have visually adapted …
Visit Parliament
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Book a free school trip to Parliament
Bookings are now open for autumn term 2018. Apply for a tour and workshop through our online form before April 30.
A transport subsidy is available for schools coming from further afield.
Get Kids Reading
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Digital Accessibility
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C21st Classroom
Characteristics of 21st Century Classrooms include accessible technology and accessible instructional materials that transform learning for every student. In Fayette County Georgia the system incorporates various classroom technologies and an …
School leaver…
I started coming here coz I got kicked out of school. Then I used to run away from school and then get into loads of trouble.
Kickin’ Off
The SmartFoundation “Kickin’ Off” video explores the benefits, both for the kids and the organisations referring them, of what has been described as “positive, diversionary and preventive activities”. SmartFoundation is a focal point for that work.
Consequences
To try and teach them,sort of responsibility for their actions is the main one that’s my aim: if I can teach them. you know , “if I do A then B will happen and the consequence of that will be C and I don’t like that idea”, then hopefully they won’t do it…
Development
This is not treats for naughty boys, this is real, proper, esteem building activity, that we have seen significant numbers of young people that so far haven’t achieved anything within the Youth Offending arena. We have seen them really start moving forward in terms of their own personal development…
Tell ’em why!
We’re not about getting on their backs and telling them you can’t do this, you can’t do that… we’re about telling them why they shouldn’t. So like all the codes we have for the work in the workshop – health and safety because you will get hurt, not because the law says so, because these kids aren’t going to understand it from that point-of-view.
Reduced Exclusion
I guess that most pupils that are in this programme and other similar programmes would be excluded from school because their behaviour would be unacceptable in a school context and so we would have figures back to twice national figures if we did that.
Qualifications
I come here because I’d been kicked out of school. If I wouldn’t have come here, I’d have had no qualifications – nothing to be in a job (with).
Last chance
I’ve messed my life up this is my last chance, because there’s nowhere after this if I mess this up. I won’t get a job in what I want to do – college won’t accept me.
It helped
It helped me because I used to always get into trouble, and now I’ve came, I’ve got…I’ve learned a lot about engines, mechanical stuff and to use bikes properly.
A bit of space
Because they are given the room to have a little bit of time to themselves and then come back to their studies their attention span gradually increases and as that increases, so does their attendance level…the kids then start to realise what they need to do for themselves.
Motivating
The scheme is motivating for young people. The theme of motorcycles attracts their attention…they want to come on the programme, and, of course, they enjoy what they do here – the way that they are treated is a little bit different to schools.
Improved behaviour
As a result of the scheme we’ve seen kids whose behaviour has improved, who have wanted to start going back into main stream education, and we’ve seen kids who actually want to attend this scheme whereas previously they wouldn’t have been able to get a proper routine, a proper schedule to their life.
Improved attendance
The feedback so far from the schools involved is that the pupils attend school much better. Attendance rates have gone up by up to 10% in some cases and also that the exclusion rates have fallen significantly.
Co-operation
Crucially, the scheme itself enables all of the agencies to work together effectively….we are one of the agencies that we think has gained most from it, and what’s really pleasing is the level of partnership working that goes on within the scheme.
Positive
Without the scheme we’d be struggling at the moment in terms of finding positive, diversionary and preventive activities, and what we have through this scheme is a focal point for that diversion and preventative work.
Crime and exclusion
There are definite links between excluded pupils and social problems such as theft, such as burglaries. The prison population is related quite strongly to those excluded from schools.
Not useless?
Fact is ‘arf the kids ‘ave been told they’re useless or they’re no good or they’re scum all their lives, so they going to start believing it.
Adult-friendly
Often the problem is that they don’t relate to the way schools treat them, and the way that they are treated here is a much more adult-friendly kind of way.
Not mainstream
I started off in a mainstream school and because of my behaviour I got moved into a special school for children with behavioural problems. And I used to come here, with them to do the motorbiking.
A different way
Well I got expelled from my schools and I like coming here because of the motorbikes, you get to take cars to bits and just work on computers and stuff like that.
Educational
We’ve done quite a lot of things about maths and education which you get here included as well as riding and stuff like mechanical work so you get education as well – its like two in one basically.