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Declining pay is leaving more schools without a male classroom teacher, study warns
Nearly a third of primary schools do not have a single male classroom teacher, a new study from Warwick Business School shows.
Leaving your baby to ‘cry it out’ has no adverse effects on child development
Leaving an infant to ‘cry it out’ from birth up to 18 months does not adversely affect their behaviour development or attachment, researchers from the University of Warwick have found, they also discovered that those left to cry cried less and for a shorter duration at 18 months of age.
Children’s mental health is affected by sleep duration
Depression, anxiety, impulsive behaviour and poor cognitive performance in children is effected by the amount of sleep they have researchers from the University of Warwick have found.
Child malnutrition monitoring in Mauritius transformed with mobile technology
Child malnutrition in Mauritius, and across Sub Saharan Africa, could be monitored more accurately and quickly, thanks to simple mobile-based data collection forms, according to new research by the University of Warwick, UK.
Preterm children have similar temperament to children who were institutionally deprived
A child’s temperament is affected by the early stages of their life. Researchers from the University of Warwick, the University of Tennessee, University of Southampton and Kings College London have found children who were born very preterm (under 32 weeks gestation) or very low birthweight (under 1500g) had similar temperamental difficulties in controlling their impulses, to children who experienced institutional deprivation.