Girls' career aspirations

"This report evaluates the extent to which careers education, guidance and other provision raise aspirations and inform the choices of courses and careers by girls and young women to support their long-term achievement. It identifies weaknesses and examples of good practice in these areas... This small scale survey looked at the choices of courses and careers made by girls and young women at various stages in their education and training." - Cover & page 4

Strengthening transfers and transitions: sustaining improvement, building capacity (National Strategies)

"This report highlights that sustainable partnership work between LAs and schools can accelerate pupil progress and that Transfer and Transitions are key drivers for raising standards. It describes how things have been taken forward in LAs and schools, and explores what has continued to have impact and how this has been achieved. It identifies significant elements for success and explains how they work in combination to build capacity for ongoing improvement." - National Strategies website

Category theory applied to a radically new but logically essential description of time and space

McTaggart's ideas on the unreality of time as expressed in "The Nature of Existence" have retained great interest for many years for scholars, academics and other philosophers. In this essay, there is a brief discussion which mentions some of the high points of this philosophical interest, and goes on to apply his ideas to modern physics and neuroscience. It does not discuss McTaggart's C and D series, but does emphasise how the use of derived versions of both his A and B series can be of great virtue in discussing both the abstract physics of time, and the present and future importance of McTaggart's ideas to the subject of time. Indeed an experiment using human volunteers and dynamic systems modelling which was carried out is described, which illustrates this fact. The Many Bubble Interpretation, which also derives from McTaggart's ideas, is discussed and various examples of its use and effectiveness are referred to. The Schrodinger Cat paradox is essentially resolved in principle, the quantum Zeno effect interpretable, Kwiat's recent result referred to, and the newly discovered reverse Stickgold effect described.\u