OBJECTIVE This paper explores the issues that arise from the discussion of administering rescue medication to children who experience prolonged convulsive seizures in mainstream schools in the UK. SITUATION ANALYSIS Current guidelines recommend immediate treatment of children with such seizures (defined as seizures lasting more than 5 min) to prevent progression to status epilepticus and neur...

The present paper attempts to explain some very serious fallacies contained in the idea of “circular flow of macroeconomic activity”, upon which virtually everything in mainstream macroeconomics is built and which provides a substantial portion of its conceptual framework. The critique proceeds by analyzing the concept of Gross Domestic Product (GDP), which is widely accepted as being “the most...

Global anterograde amnesia is described in three patients with brain injuries that occurred in one case at birth, in another by age 4, and in the third at age 9. Magnetic resonance techniques revealed bilateral hippocampal pathology in all three cases. Remarkably, despite their pronounced amnesia for the episodes of everyday life, all three patients attended mainstream schools and attained leve...

The number skills of groups of 7 to 9 year old children with specific language impairment (SLI) attending mainstream or special schools are compared with an age and nonverbal reasoning matched group (AC), and a younger group matched on oral language comprehension. The SLI groups performed below the AC group on every skill. They also showed lower working memory functioning and had received lower...

In the 20 century there was an unbridgeable gap between the “right” and “left” schools of economics with respect to the determination of value of commodities. While Marxian scholars insisted, that human labour being the essence of value to have a good argument for demonstrating exploitation, mainstream economists in the West focused on marginal utility theory to keeping up their basic axiom of ...

Outlined below are selected results of a 5-year long national survey which investigated the knowledge, values and attitudes of 430 Year 11 and 12 Muslim students in eight Muslim High schools towards the mainstream Australia and Australians society. The findings reflect a wide spectrum of responses with a strong implication that much work is needed to bring about an appropriate degree of adjustm...

Central initiatives since 1981 have led to the current policy and practice of inclusive education. We speculate on the number of pupils with speech and language impairments who are present in mainstream classes and therefore the extent to which such difficulties will pose a challenge to science teachers in mainstream schools. We highlight and discuss the main barriers and challenges which langu...