Children from low-income backgrounds boosted their GCSE performance by up to three grades if they lived near a Sure Start centre, according to a new report. Economics research experts from the independent Institute for Fiscal Studies revealed the findings after being commissioned by the Nuffield Foundation to look at the impact of Sure Start on …
It was the ‘where were you’ moment of the decade. While privileged spectators lined the shores, the public was glued to TV sets around the world to watch grainy black and white images of a futuristic jet-powered hydroplane skim across Coniston Water at speeds of around 300mph. On the second run, the nose of Bluebird …
Podcasters and YouTubers are turning to a young couple for their expertise as they try and wade through hours of video footage for the soundbites. Zara Paul and Aaron Morris, who met at Durham University, are continuing to grow their business Choppity which uses customised AI to home in on the best clips from lengthy …
There can be few greater tests of resilience than the world of football. But as newly appointed college principal and chief executive of Bishop Auckland College Group Shaun Hope is discovering the skills he developed in the game are crossing into education. “When you are growing up with football you don’t realise the lessons you …
At a top secret location whisky maturing in 7,000 wooden casks which once contained sherry performs its magic, extracting flavours from the oak. At today’s prices the amber liquor is worth £100m as the world goes mad for a whisky increasingly supplied by a Cumbrian distillery. The decade-old story of The Lakes Distillery is the …
Financial investigators are on the tracks of global scammers using game-changing artificial intelligence to help recover the criminals’ billions in ill-gotten gains. Cobra AI has been launched by financial investigators IYE Global to jump the ‘choke point’ which challenges investigators when information stops being in the public domain. Developed with intelligence gathered over more than …
Athletes will be able to monitor their brain brainwaves to pinpoint peak performance and injury after an innovative sports headband, originally designed to reduce concussion, is adapted. Stanley-based Rezon Halos has linked up with the American tech firm Cogwear to produce sportswear that will use EEG (electroencephalogram) technology to analyse brainwaves. Clinical trials are about …
While the perception is that the world has gone digital, that each of us has our faces buried in a device most of the time, the reality is different, particularly in the North East. International consultancy Deloitte has just published a report highlighting the digital poverty gap and this region is the worst in the …
When a primary school teacher awaiting the result of an Ofsted inspection took her own life it may have left the nation shocked, but the teaching profession was less than surprised. The coroner referred the matter in a prevention of future deaths report to the Government after linking the suicide of Caversham Primary School headteacher …
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