See You Again Next Week
Suggests that student tutoring may provide a partial solution to the high attrition rate in education plus training for 16‐18‐year‐olds in Britain. Focuses on the Pimlico Connection – a student tutoring scheme initiated by Imperial College, London in 1975 – in which students act as volunteer tutors in local primary and secondary schools. Evaluates the scheme, in which 1,300 volunteer students assisted nearly 15,000 school pupils, and concludes that, with appropriate commercial backing, effective management and willing participants, student tutoring has great potential for raising schoolchildren′s aspirations.
Georgetown Education Outreach Initiatives:An Assessment of Staff and Student Education Outreach Programs
Georgetown University’s education outreach programs lack a formal communication network or central repository of information. This deficit makes it difficult for programs to coordinate their activities, and for the university to provide strategic direction to the outreach programs. The purpose of this research is to map and catalog all staff and student-run education outreach programs at Georgetown and to create a research model that other universities can replicate in order to describe and organize their outreach programs. Twenty-three university staff and student program coordinators were surveyed. Participants were asked for program information and training materials, to complete an online survey, and to participate in follow-up interviews. This information now provides a clear overview of student and staff-run education outreach at Georgetown. Tables of
First Insights into the Draft Genome Sequence of the Endophyte Paenibacillus amylolyticus Strain GM1FR, Isolated from Festuca rubra L.
ABSTRACT Paenibacillus amylolyticus strain GM1FR is an endophyte isolated from aerial plant tissues of Festuca rubra L. Here, we report the draft genome sequence (7.3 Mb) of GM1FR containing 6,241 protein-coding genes, some of which are potentially involved in plant growth promotion and biocontrol.