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Tesco Clubcard entrepreneur, Edwina Dunn OBE, has spearheaded a major new piece of social media research set to permanently shift the conversation around teens and social media from simply restricting use to adopting and promoting healthier social interactions. The ground-breaking Disrupting The Feed study has revealed multiple positive outcomes resulting from the introduction of new, diverse and positive female role models into the social media feeds of girls aged 14 to 18
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between Dunn’s e ducation charity, The Female Lead and Psychologist Dr Terri Apter, Fellow Emerita of Newnham College, Cambridge. Disrupting The Feed encompassed large-scale data analysis of hundreds of thousands of social media accounts alongside a year-long qualitative study in five schools across the UK to explore whether altering the variety and composition of
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who teen girls follow on social media can positively impact their mental health and their personal aspirations.
The study concluded that:
• A causal relationship exists between following positive female role models on social media and having higher and more focused personal and career aspirations
• Offering teens alternative females to follow ‘disrupted’ the homogeneity of what the teens engaged with via social channels thereby focusing them on more inspirational content, related to their personal interests and
ambitions. This also resulted in positive action in terms of their passions and aspirations in the offline world
• Introducing positive female role models into teen girls ‘follow’ lists prompted more positive interactions with social media overall.
Participants chose to alter their social media habits for better mental health including taking planned ‘breaks’ from social media or re- thinking who they followed to remove anyone who they recognised as having a negative impact on their s elf-estee m
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both quality of care and support and quality of staffing when they visited in September.
d: “Although some staff were new to the service, they worked well as a team. The management team and staff were committed an d highly motivated to provide the best early learning and childcare to the children attending the nursery. Staff demonstrated their ongoing commitment to achieve ongoing improvements. Staff told us they had regular staff meetings to discuss practice and developments. They had attended in-service training, for example the use of best practice guidance documents.”
Head teacher Fiona Eaton said: “I am extremely proud of our nursery team and early years practitioners who have been ably Teacher Claire Smith to ensure a safe and happy environment for children to develop and learn. The team is delighted with the awarded and are committed to raising standards further.”
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f-pri.aberdeenshire.sch.uk/ Renishaw ecruits for newgraduate ntake Renishaw recruits for new graduate iintake
Gloucestershire-based engineering company Renishaw is recruiting 70 graduates for its 2020 intake. The company has also created new programmes for its software and manufacturing engineering streams, extending the opportunities it offers to graduates from a range of engineering disciplines. Applications are now open until November 1st 2019.
In 2019 at the JobCrowd Awards, Renishaw’s Graduate Scheme was again ranked amongst the top three companies for graduates to work for in the UK’s engineering and manufacturing sector, for companies taking over 30 graduates a year. The company recruits for software engineers
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electronics roles), commercial graduates, operational management roles, mechanical design engineers, applications engineers, electronic engineers, process engineers, physics and scientific roles and project coordinators. “Our Graduate Scheme is an opportunity to be part of a world-leading engineering company,” explained Becca Hiorns, Graduate Lead at Renishaw. “Graduates are an essential part of our business, as their technical mindset helps bring new perspectives to industry challenges.”
“Renishaw is committed to developing the skills of its people and promoting them
internally,” added Hiorns. “Our employees are mentored, trained and encouraged to work
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towards chartered status—the opportunities are endless. In fact,William Lee, Renishaw’s CEO joined the company as a graduate in 1996.” To be considered for the Renishaw Graduate Scheme, applicants are required to have achieved, or are expected to achieve, a minimum 2:2 degree in a relevant discipline. Applications for Renishaw’s graduate schemes are open until 1s t November 2019 .
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“very good” grades led by Depute Head
The previous inspection inMay 2017 rated the school as “good” in all categories: quali ty of care and support, quality of env ironment, quality o f staffing and qu ality of management and leadership .
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Teamwork shown by staff and management at Turriff Primary and Nursery was just one of many positive aspects’ inspectors acknowledged in a review of the school.
The Care Inspectorate ranked Turriff Primary and Nursery School as
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