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AimsTo model school performance of children with type 1 diabetes in comparison to their non-diabetic peers.
MethodsWe use 8 academic cohorts of Welsh administrative education data (2008 to 2016) linked to the Brecon Cohort, a register of all children diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes in Wales before the age of 15. We model the associations for diabetes with both school absence (sessions missed per year) and educational attainment (using high stakes testing at the end of compulsory schooling), adjusting for individual, school and clinic characteristics and clustering.
Data LinkageWe discuss our approaches to the challenges of linking the education and diabetes register and outline our proposed solution to the governance challenges of linking UK audit data.

An analysis of 'should' -- An analysis of 'fairness' -- An analysis of 'best' -- The free will problem -- A critique of moral responsibility and the retributive -- An analysis of causal responsibility -- The judicial system -- The post-judicial system

This article focuses on anxiety in teaching and learning. It argues that in essence the teacher's role is to contain anxiety for the sake of learning. The teacher's skill in setting up and maintaining a "containing space" is the keystone on which the various aspects of the art of good teaching rest. Within this space, learning can be experienced as the expansion of potential, not merely the mastery of content and predefined competencies. Despite the differences in aims, a strong "family resemblance" exists between teaching and psychoanalysis in terms of setting, role, transference, and underlying notions of human development.

AbstractBehavioural economics incorporates ideas from psychology, sociology and neuroscience to better predict how individuals make long‐term decisions. Often the ideas adopted include present or inattention bias, both potentially leading to suboptimal outcomes. But these models also point to opportunities for effective, low‐cost government policies that can have meaningful positive effects on people's long‐term well‐being. The last decade has been marked by a growing interest from governments the world over in using behavioural economics to inform policy decisions. This is true of Canada as well. In this paper we discuss the increasingly important role behavioural economics plays in Canadian public policy. We first contextualize government policies that have incorporated insights from behavioural economics by outlining a collection of models of intertemporal choice. We then present examples of public policy initiatives that are based upon findings in the field, placing particular emphasis on Canadian initiatives. We also document future opportunities, challenges and limitations.