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Motivating Adult Learners
The Basic Skills Agency today launches new research into what motivates adults with poor basic skills to improve them. The survey, commissioned by the Adult Basic Skills Promotion Task Force (set up following the publication of the Moser Report, A Fresh Start), is called Getting Better Basic Skills - what motivates adults.
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Public Attitudes To The NHS In Scotland
Against a background of change in the NHS and to inform the preparation of the Health Plan for Scotland, the Scottish Executive commissioned MORI Scotland and System Three to carry out a survey of public perceptions and experiences of the NHS.
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Bobbies On The Beat, They Can't Always Be In The Right Place At The Right Time
In a dramatic display of public misunderstanding, a MORI poll conducted for the National Neighbourhood Watch Association (NNWA) has found that 93% of the British public who expressed an opinion overestimates the number of times that a police officer on foot patrol is actually likely to come across a crime in progress. In response to these figures the NNWA is challenging politicians and police chiefs to re-consider this wasteful use of police resources and concentrate instead on more focused crime prevention measures. They are also pointing out that vigilant neighbours are much more likely to be in the right place at the right time to prevent residential crime taking place.
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Survey Of Overseas Package Holidays
Spain (including the Balearic and Canary Islands) remains the firm favourite for British package holidaymakers, with 42% having visited in the last 12 months. Greece and her islands were voted second favourite (16%), Cyprus and France were third (7%) and the United States and Turkey were equal with 6%.
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Food For Thought: Helping Prevent Disabilities In Babies
Only about half of British women of childbearing age are aware that folic acid can help prevent spina bifida in unborn babies, according to a new survey.
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Survey Of Britain's 'Bridget Joneses' Reveals Shopping War Between The Sexes (Toplines)
25 October 2000
Thinking about your boyfriend's flat or house, please tell me which, if any, of the following apply -
Survey Of Britain's 'Bridget Joneses' Reveals Shopping War Between The Sexes (press release)
Could the Internet offer a solution?
A survey of the nation's 'Bridget Jones' published today has revealed that nearly one in three shopping trips made by British couples, to buy products for the home, ends in an all out row.