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An Evaluation of an Anti‐bullying Peer Support Programme in a (British) Secondary School

In this paper Tony Hurst highlights that peer support programmes can contribute to the effectiveness of pastoral care by involving the pupils in the helping process and this can contribute to their personal and social development. He notes that there are a number of things that can go wrong with such programmes and that they should not be seen as an alternative to an effective traditional pastoral system. The main body of the paper describes the development and evaluation of a programme in a relatively large urban secondary school. This evaluation identified both the positive feelings of pupils and staff about the programme and the important contribution it made. Some issues and problems were also identified and as a result the conclusion includes a number of recommendations and summarizes the various valuable outcomes.     

Data deluge or data trickle? Difficulties in acquiring public data for telecommunications policy analysis

Abstract

There is a paucity of granular, high-resolution broadband data in the United States, which limits the prospects of informed telecommunications policy debates. In the absence of regulation requiring telecommunication providers to accurately report service footprints, pricing, and service quality data, providers refuse to disclose this information, routinely citing competition as the primary reason for keeping network and pricing data obfuscated. In addition, many secondary datasets needed for broadband planning and policy research, such as parcel or address point data, are equally challenging to gather. These datasets are often controlled by county governments, with no overarching access policy, resulting in neighboring counties with widely divergent policies for the release of these important data. In this article we explore the challenges of open data and its impacts on telecommunication policy development. A recent project which explored the spatial provision of Google Fiber in the Kansas City metropolitan area helps to highlight these difficulties. Basic strategies for mitigating information asymmetries and the lack of data transparency for telecommunication policy analysis are discussed.     

An integrated, multiparametric flow cytometry chip using "microfluidic drifting" based three-dimensional hydrodynamic focusing

In this work, we demonstrate an integrated, single-layer, miniature flow cytometry device that is capable of multi-parametric particle analysis. The device integrates both particle focusing and detection components on-chip, including a "microfluidic drifting" based three-dimensional (3D) hydrodynamic focusing component and a series of optical fibers integrated into the microfluidic architecture to facilitate on-chip detection. With this design, multiple optical signals (i.e., forward scatter, side scatter, and fluorescence) from individual particles can be simultaneously detected. Experimental results indicate that the performance of our flow cytometry chip is comparable to its bulky, expensive desktop counterpart. The integration of on-chip 3D particle focusing with on-chip multi-parametric optical detection in a single-layer, mass-producible microfluidic device presents a major step towards low-cost flow cytometry chips for point-of-care clinical diagnostics.     

The Assessment of Special Educational Needs for Bilingual Children

Tony Cline, Professor of Educational Psychology at the University of Luton and Chair of the Editorial Board of NASEN Journals, examines the challenges that face those involved in the assessment of the special educational needs of children for whom English is an additional language. He rejects some notions of the ideal that have stood in the way of achievable good practice and argues for a closer look at the learning environments in which children are placed.