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Evaluation of The Careers & Enterprise Company’s teacher encounters programme.
Teachers and the wider education workforce play a key role in supporting young people’s career decision making. However, the pace of change in the economy and industries can make it challenging for teachers to stay up to date with the skills employers need from a future workforce and the variety of opportunities and career pathways available to their students. The Teacher Encounters Programme is designed to help teachers increase their confidence and knowledge of the range of opportunities in today’s world of work. It provides an opportunity for teachers to engage directly with employers to see and learn about the different career pathways relevant to their subject and how that subject is applied practically in the workplace of today. This report is an analysis of the impact of the year-long national pilot programme which delivered over 1000 encounters between teachers and employers. The programme was operated through The Careers & Enterprise Company’s Careers Hubs in partnership with combined authorities, local authorities and LEPs. The Careers Hubs bring together schools, colleges, employers, apprenticeship providers, combined and local authorities and LEPs to increase the ability of education providers to improve how they prepare young people for their next steps and their career
Sums of two squares and a power
We extend results of Jagy and Kaplansky and the present authors and show that
for all there are infinitely many positive integers , which cannot
be written as for positive integers , where for
a congruence condition is imposed on . These
examples are of interest as there is no congruence obstruction itself for the
representation of these . This way we provide a new family of
counterexamples to the Hasse principle or strong approximation.Comment: 6 pages, to appear in the memorial volume "From Arithmetic to
Zeta-Functions - Number Theory in Memory of Wolfgang Schwarz
Character sums for primitive root densities
It follows from the work of Artin and Hooley that, under assumption of the
generalized Riemann hypothesis, the density of the set of primes for which
a given non-zero rational number is a primitive root modulo can be
written as an infinite product of local factors
reflecting the degree of the splitting field of at the primes ,
multiplied by a somewhat complicated factor that corrects for the
`entanglement' of these splitting fields. We show how the correction factors
arising in Artin's original primitive root problem and some of its
generalizations can be interpreted as character sums describing the nature of
the entanglement. The resulting description in terms of local contributions is
so transparent that it greatly facilitates explicit computations, and naturally
leads to non-vanishing criteria for the correction factors. The method not only
applies in the setting of Galois representations of the multiplicative group
underlying Artin's conjecture, but also in the GL-setting arising for
elliptic curves. As an application, we compute the density of the set of primes
of cyclic reduction for Serre curves.Comment: 23 pages. This version is to appear in the Mathematical Proceedings
of the Cambridge Philosophical Societ
International Centre for Guidance Studies (iCeGS) Annual Review 2022
This publication offers a brief insight into the wide range of activities the iCeGS team are involved with over the year. It explores our contribution to policy, research and practice within the career development sector both in the UK and wider afield. iCeGS Annual Review also gives the team an opportunity to reflect on our many achievements over the last year. This year, like other years, we feel particularly proud of several activities
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Child Maltreatment, Non-Suicidal Self-Injury, and the Mediating Role of Self-Criticism
We examined the relation between child maltreatment and non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI). Participants were 86 adolescents who completed measures of child maltreatment, self-criticism, perceived criticism, depression, and NSSI. Analyses revealed significant, small-to-medium associations between specific forms of child maltreatment (physical neglect, emotional abuse, and sexual abuse) and the presence of a recent history of NSSI. Emotional and sexual abuse had the strongest relations with NSSI, and the data supported a theoretical model in which self-criticism mediates the relation between emotional abuse and engagement in NSSI. Specificity for the mediating role of self-criticism was demonstrated by ruling out alternative mediation models. Taken together, these results indicate that several different forms of childhood maltreatment are associated with NSSI and illuminate one mechanism through which maltreatment may be associated with NSSI. Future research is needed to test the temporal relation between maltreatment and NSSI and should aim to identify additional pathways to engagement in NSSI.Psycholog
Sums and differences of four k-th powers
We prove an upper bound for the number of representations of a positive
integer as the sum of four -th powers of integers of size at most ,
using a new version of the Determinant method developed by Heath-Brown, along
with recent results by Salberger on the density of integral points on affine
surfaces. More generally we consider representations by any integral diagonal
form. The upper bound has the form , whereas earlier
versions of the Determinant method would produce an exponent for of order
in this case. Furthermore, we prove that the number of
representations of a positive integer as a sum of four -th powers of
non-negative integers is at most for
, improving upon bounds by Wisdom.Comment: 18 pages. Mistake corrected in the statement of Theorem 1.2. To
appear in Monatsh. Mat
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