World Cup Fever – What will Britain do while England Plays? (Mintel report)

 

This is the latest market research report added to Mintel! (Click on Athens log in.)

The (less exciting) May 2006 market research reports added to Mintel are…

Social Trends 2006 now out

The 2006 edition of Social Trends has now been released by the UK’s Office for National Statistics .  This publication contains key statistics and reports on many aspects of UK society – on health, households, education, population growth or decline, lifestyles, housing and more.

Accoona – Business and News search engine

Accoona is an excellent search engine if you're looking for business or news web sites. It uses Artificial Intelligence technology to 'SuperTarget Your search'! This is almost as clever as it sounds. When you get your results, you can focus your search using drop down menus. Nice idea and good results.

RSS, blogs, wikis, instant messaging, podcasting…

Just a reminder that Paul Williams will be running a session for staff on these latest communication tools on Wednesday 21 June at 2.00 in the Information Skills Room in Peirson. Please contact Paul if you’d like to attend. There’s been quite a demand already, so Paul may run some further sessions. Then there’ll be no excuses for not reading this blog!

Person Centred Care

The Joseph Rowntree Foundation has published a new report Promoting Person Centred Care at the Front Line. The report looks at the “barriers and opportunities to the delivery of person-centred support/ care by frontline workers” and looks specifically at the care of older people, disabled people and care of those from ethnic minority groups. Adobe reader required.

Internet Detective Tutorial relaunched

The free online tutorial Internet detective was relaunched on 13 June by the RDN. It’s ‘designed to help students develop the critical thinking required for their Internet research’.

Interactive Whiteboard Training for staff

Interactive whiteboard training will be delivered on the dates and times below.

 

1000 – 1130 Tuesday June 27 in Room 106
1000 – 1130 Wednesday June 28 in Room 117

The sessions will last approximately 1 hour 15 mins, with the room being available for a further 15 minutes for those who wish to ask questions or practise further. The sessions will cover

• Using the equipment as a basic whiteboard, utilising different colour pens/highlighters etc from the toolbar.
• Annotating over the top of other software packages.
• Callibrating the board and basic trouble shooting.

If you would like to book a place on either of the above sessions, please email P.Thornton@worc.ac.uk

Pete Thornton

Drugs and Education

Two government departments, the Department for Education and Skills and the Department of Health have come together to produce a report to help identify and support good practice in drug and alcohol education. 'Assessment in Drug Education: a briefing paper for teachers and other drug practitioners' is useful for all those involved in health and education of children and young people. Adobe reader required.

New Publications for Sport

I know it’s too late for 2005/06 but this may give you some ideas for reading lists and for next year’s book budget!

The Catalogue of New Publications produced by the Higher Education Academy Hospitality, Leisure, Sport & Tourism Network lists new and forthcoming Sport books, with links to publishers’ details.

Out of Hours Care

The National Audit Office has produced a report about the provision of out-of-hours care in England following changes to this service in 2004. To read the full report follow this link. Adobe reader required.