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Rudd, Peter; Gardiner, Clare; Marson-Smith, Helen – National Foundation for Educational Research, 2010
What are the challenges, barriers and facilitating factors connected to the various school admissions approaches used by local authorities? This report gathers the views of local authority admissions officers on the strengths and weaknesses of different approaches, as well as the issues and challenges they face in this important area. It covers:…
Descriptors: Admissions Officers, College Admission, Research Reports, Barriers
Steele, Jonathan; Stratford, Brian – American Journal on Mental Retardation, 1995
The prevalence of Down's syndrome by age and sex in the United Kingdom was established from questionnaires sent to 30 registers. The overall prevalence was determined to be 6.7 per 10,000 population, representing approximately 30,000 affected individuals. A prevalence-based projection method and an incidence-based/mortality-based projection method…
Descriptors: Age, Children, Demography, Downs Syndrome
United Nations, New York, NY. Dept. of Economic and Social Affairs. – 2001
The United Nations (UN) Population Division monitors fertility, mortality, and migration trends for all countries as a basis for producing the official UN population estimates and projections. Among recent demographic trends, two are prominent: (1) population decline and (2) population aging. Focusing on these two critical trends, a study…
Descriptors: Birth Rate, Demography, Developed Nations, Foreign Countries