May 2015

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The demand-side of active labour market policies: a regional study of employer engagement in the Work Programme

Jo Ingold and Mark Stuart, Leeds University Business School Post based on an article in Journal of Social Policy   The Work Programme for the long-term unemployed introduced by the Coalition government  in 2011 has attracted much publicity – largely around the number of job outcomes being less than expected and that it is a ‘policy failure’.…

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School meals have an effect on children’s performance in class

The May Nutrition Society Paper of the Month is from British Journal of Nutrition  entitled, ‘The effects of Nordic school meals on concentration and school performance in 8- to 11-year-old children in the OPUS School Meal Study:a cluster-randomised, controlled, cross-over trial’ The cognitive performance of children has been associated with dietary quality in several studies.…

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New method of predicting feed digestibility

The valorization of a feed resource within an animal species depends on its intrinsic physico-chemical characteristics, but also on its actual utilization by the animal to which it is offered. However, the characterization of feeds is often done through their potential value (e.g. digestibility of nutrients) without considering the variability of animal responses.

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Unimagining conservation

The EC Perspectives paper from the March issue of Environmental Conservation is entitled Ecological history of Lachlan Nature Reserve, Centennial Park, Sydney, Australia: a palaeoecological approach to conservation by Rebecca Hamilton and Dan Penny.…

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