Starting school.

Starting School

The head mistress of a Secondary Modern School for girls had the good idea of organising a school party each year at the end of the summer term, the guests to be the pupils about to move up to ^e Senior school and the leavers to act as hostesses. It is difficult to tell which group derives the greater benefit, the 15-year-olds proudly showing the "little ones" around and enjoying their own uttp...

Selective medical examinations on starting school.

Selective medical examination of children starting school has been operated in Cramlington for five years, and the data for the school year 1984-85 are reported. It is argued that the 'routine medical' is an outdated concept and that its abolition would allow more time for more important aspects of educational medicine including help for adolescents, disabled children in school, and deprived ch...

The gift of time? School starting age and mental health.

Using linked Danish survey and register data, we estimate the causal effect of age at kindergarten entry on mental health. Danish children are supposed to enter kindergarten in the calendar year in which they turn 6 years. In a "fuzzy" regression-discontinuity design based on this rule and exact dates of birth, we find that a 1-year delay in kindergarten entry dramatically reduces inattention/h...

School Starting Age: European Policy and Recent Research

Starting Work—A Guide for Young People Leaving School

My first day at work came back vividly when I read this book?the long train journey and the chaos of travelling in the rush-hour, instead of a pleasant walk across the park to school; the sense of excitement at the novelty of going to work in the City, in contrast to the rigidity of rules, even in the Sixth Form; the friendliness of everyone in the office, the surprise that besides an hour for ...