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  • Celebrating 1,000 issues of the Idox Information Service Weekly Bulletin

    by Stacey Dingwall After turning 40 last year, the Idox Information Service today reaches another milestone: the 1,000th edition of our Weekly Bulletin. The Bulletin is circulated to our members every week, as part of their subscription to our service. ....

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  • Why do more girls than boys go on to higher education?

    by Stacey Dingwall In February of this year, ministerial guidance was issued to the Office for Fair Access (OFFA) on doing more to widen the participation of disadvantaged groups in higher education. This was accompanied by the issuing of new ....

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  • How to support transgender pupils

    by Stacey Dingwall Last week, Brighton College, a co-educational independent college, announced that it is to stop making a distinction between boys’ and girls’ uniforms. The announcement was made in order to support transgender or dysphoric (a condition where someone ....

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  • Women in public life: breaking the barriers – conference highlights

    By Rebecca Jackson With Scotland’s now famed “all female leadership” heading the main political parties in Holyrood (excepting Willie Rennie’s leadership of the Scottish Liberal Democrats) and the announcement of Jeremy Corbyn’s recently reshuffled shadow cabinet containing 17 women and ....

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  • Costs and benefits of the National Living Wage

    By Heather Cameron Britain’s bosses have been urged by the government to prepare early for the introduction of the National Living Wage (NLW) in April next year. Firms are advised to follow four simple steps: know the correct rate of ....

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  •  (Older) people power: the economic opportunities of an ageing society

    By James Carson Responding to a recent Ask-a-Researcher request for information about Britain’s ageing population, I found that an online search generated a discouraging set of headlines: “Ageing UK population will increase strain on public spending” “UK faces ‘debt timebomb’ ....

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  • Diversity, citizenship and identity in the UK: conference highlights

    By Rebecca Jackson 361 days since Scotland went to the polls in the 2014 independence referendum, and in the context of the current political climate regarding displaced peoples and refugees, BEMIS hosted a conference on Monday in Glasgow to consider ....

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  • Want to know more about inequality or digital public services? So do our members!

    Photograph: James Carson One of the big attractions of the Idox Information Service is the wide range of subjects covered by our database.  From economic development to crime prevention, social care to urban planning, the breadth of coverage is impressive.  ....

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  • Hitting the glass floor: the impact of social background on earnings

      By James Carson How much does family background matter when it comes to your job prospects later in life? That’s the focus of a report from the Social Mobility and Child Poverty Commission which examined the relationship between social ....

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  • Higher education – widening access or widening inequality?

    By Heather Cameron While the government maintains its commitment to widening participation to higher education, newly published government statistics suggest that the gap between private and state pupils is actually widening. Widening gap The statistics show that 85% of school-leavers ....

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