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Youth services review aims to advise action

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  • Wednesday, July 26, 2006
    • | Nursery World
A review aiming to influence future social attitudes and political policy on youth issues has been launched by the charity 4Children. The year-long Make Space Youth Review will examine society's attitudes to teenagers and make recommendations on how to best support them to become healthy and successful adults.

I think, therefore I am

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  • Wednesday, July 26, 2006
    • | Nursery World
HAL, an advanced thinking computer from Arthur C Clarke's novel 2001, made disastrous choices when given conflicting information. In 1950, Alan Turing invented the Turing test, which has been the ultimate test for whether a computer can really think or not: can a human have a chat using text with a human and a computer, and be able to distinguish between the two? So far, no computer has passed the Turing test, and there are no advanced thinking machines like HAL. Until then, can non-thinking technology develop thinking skills in children? I believe so.

Out of the wood

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  • Wednesday, July 26, 2006
    • | Nursery World
Creativity and confidence grew from a unique project when a nursery invited an artist in residence to work with children in its outdoor area. Annette Rawstrone reports Exploring and creating spaces, forms and structures using living willow was the focus of a seven- week artistic residency at Bloomsbury Children's Centre in Birmingham.

Free children's after-school clubs

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  • Wednesday, September 4, 2002
    • | Nursery World
Free children's after-school clubs have been launched by Glasgow City Council's Community Action Team in the East End of the city this week. All children aged five to 12 are invited to the clubs which promise fun, games, sports and arts. The clubs are free with a Glasgow Kidz Card, application forms for which are available from schools or at the club. For further information, contact community action officer Angela Beattie on 0141 764 3802.

The Joseph Rowntree Foundation

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  • Wednesday, July 19, 2006
    • | Nursery World
The Joseph Rowntree Foundation has published a study, What makes parenting programmes work in disadvantaged areas?, based on the trial of a programme in primary schools in London, at www.jrf.org.uk/redirect.asp?url=findings/socialpolicy/0386.

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