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Published Bernice on Wednesday, May 16, 2018
English UK's annual student statistics will be the most comprehensive ever when they are launched at the annual conference this week.
Universities and further education colleges have shared their data on student numbers, junior to adult ratio and source markets for the first time, making it possible to compare performance in the state and private sectors.
The report will show an overall turnaround by UK ELT after three years of decline, with strong growth in many markets.
"We are really excited about sharing the 2017 report with our members and the wider industry," said Jodie Gray, English UK's Director of Strategic Development. "Not only does it show the differences between the trading patterns of our state and private members, it contains detailed data which will help universities and FE colleges consider new markets and benchmark their own performance."
The state sector analysis conducted by StudentMarketing, English UK's insight partner, reveals it is much more reliant on Asian countries than private centres, and that 10 per cent of its students were under-18. This level of detail will enable trend analysis in future years.
Patrik Pavlacic, StudentMarketing's Head of Research who will present the figures at the conference in London on Thursday, said: "The new state sector reporting put in place is the culmination of a several years' effort to level up the sector in terms of data. Going forward, institutions will be better equipped with market intelligence to drive their international student recruitment activities. In our presentation we will be pinpointing some opportunity markets where the UK is still underrepresented."
"It is an additional highlight for the state sector that we're able to show where their students come from: their list of source markets are different in terms of countries and market share."
Historically, trading figures were submitted in different ways by state and private members of English UK after the association was formed from two specialist trade bodies in 2004.


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He calls this suffering for his craft. He self-identifies as an artist, which is a little pretentious for someone who can't tell the difference between oil and acrylic. He gets hungry sometimes, but rarely, choosing instead to subsist on a diet of vitamin powder and misery. Occasionally, he sips from a perpetually-replenishing glass of red wine that he leaves on the windowsill of a window whose blinds are always shut. On second thought, maybe he is pretentious enough.
He's too young for this. Maybe he's not even out of high school. He wishes he could grow a foot-long beard for dramatic effect, but he knows that (a) that's just not going to happen alongside his wispy hair and acne and (b) it'd be impractical anyway, since the beard would get caught in his jigsaw, and the thought of that alone makes him wince. Besides, it's not like anyone would see it. No one comes into his workshop. No one has since --
He's not a recluse by nature. But he read one too many Henry David Thoreau essays and he disagreed with them so vehemently that he found that he actually agreed. Except humans shouldn't allow nature to manufacture them. Humans should manufacture nature. No one else, just him and the mechanical ficuses, stiff and gleaming against the lonesome attic wind.
He knows that to others, the plants appear to be nothing more than Audrey II knockoffs. The others would never understand. They'd never be able to comprehend what it's like to live in and out of dreaming -- lucid dreams, fever dreams, the occasional bout of sleep paralysis -- and to be able to cling to nothing but these plants, carefully constructed from the tangible excesses of his pain. They could call him lofty, aloof, clichéd. That's all true, whether or not he'd deign to refer to his emotional state as angst. But what does it matter? In his self-satisfaction, he is at peace.

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Sisters in the Statehouse: Black Women and Legislative Decision Making
Descriptive studies of women in office have well documented the ways in which the gender and race of legislators affects policy preferences. However, descriptive studies of female legislators tend to treat identity as constant over time and context and so fail to account for the substantive work of legislators. As Sisters in the Statehouse shows, it is not enough to disaggregate ",women", from ",Blacks.", While scholars have long advanced the notion that African American women as a group exhibit specificities informed by the intersection of race and gender that provide them with a unique worldview, it is necessary to further explore differences among Black women. This book addresses this gap by utilizing humanistic inquiry to examine the connection between descriptive and substantive representation in the case of Black women legislators. This link hinges on how such legislators see the effects of their own race-gender identity on their legislative work. By combining humanistic and social science techniques, including feminist life histories, elite interviews, and participant observation in conjunction with legislative case studies and bill sponsorship data, Nadia E. Brown presents a fuller description of how identity informs Black women state legislators' descriptive and substantive representation. Linking personal narratives to political behavior, Brown elicits the feminist life histories of African American women legislators to understand how their experiences with racism and sexism have influenced their legislative decision-making and policy preferences. Sisters in the Statehouse is a groundbreaking inquiry into how an intersectional approach can enhance our understanding of political representation.
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This is just to say that knitting a hat with bulky wool and size seven needles is one thing, and that knitting the same hat with size one needles and sock yarn is a completely different, vastly slower, hugely more
tedious meditative thing. I knit on the train, I knit in front of Netflix, I knit at work in between tasks, and the whole things moves forward at a crawl. This is definitely a product knit, not a process knit; The results will be gorgeous, once I finally get there.
Fortunately, I've only got one more Double Dutch sample to knit before I can update the pattern's yardage and gauge, and that one's in a super bulky yarn!


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MANPADS are inexpensive and widely proliferated – it is estimated that over 200,000 missiles are in the hands of militants and non-state organizations. The missiles are easy to conceal and operate and are especially dangerous for take-off and landing and for low altitude flights. Airfields have known locations and defined flight paths that make fatal MANPAD attacks easy to plan and execute. Advanced MANPADS have been used by terrorist organizations in Asia, Africa, Middle East and South America.
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Considered one of the best sand pointbreaks in the world, Mundaka put the Basque Country on the World Surfing Map.
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On 2019 we have modified the shape for a more performance approach. including the new Yow performance concave, with rocker on the nose helping on power moves and airs.
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Have you ever had one of those days when you wanted to get out and spend some time caching but a trip to the boonies to find a cache or two along a backwoods trail just wasn't in the cards? Sometimes even a trip to a local oasis where you can have dirt and leaves beneath your boots instead of asphalt and concrete isn't doable either. Maybe you've only got a few minutes to spare on your lunch break or a few minutes after dropping the kids off at ball practice but you still have that cachin' jones going on and need a fix…what to do?
Maybe a little urban geocaching is in order to satisfy that jones without a major time investment. Honestly, there are probably many more urban caches out there than there are caches out in the woods. Their locations can be as simple and obvious as beneath a light post skirt (aka 'the skirt lifter') in the middle of a parking lot to a log sheet pasted to the inside the cover of a book in a local library (with the permission of the library staff, of course).
While urban caches can range from terribly mundane to incredibly creative, there is an element that often adds a much greater challenge…the presence of people…non-cachers to be specific. Try to retrieve and replace the cheesiest 'skirt lifter' in a busy parking lot without drawing attention. Try peering into a bush in front of the windows of a popular restaurant to find a camo-covered match container without being seen. Or maybe try looking for a magnetic key holder tucked up in the guard rail at a busy intersection. Its not always as easy as it seems. What do you do? You have a choice…you can be stealthy and try to go unnoticed or throw caution to the wind, just be obvious and hope to educate non-cachers or even get them interested in the game in the process. Is one choice better than the other? Lets just say it probably depends on the situation.
Recently we've been wanting to get out and find a few of those backwoods caches but life has led us toward urban caches instead. Here are highlights from a few:
Might as well show off a skirt lifter first. This one was at the edge of the parking lot of a fast-food joint. Fortunately I was able to grab this one after the lunch rush and it helped that I was able to position my car between the light pole and the restaurant itself. These things are everywhere. The containers can vary but the concept is the same.
Nano caches are pretty prevalent in urban areas. The idea of a nano…make it small…real small…hence the name. These little buggers are often about the size of a first grade pencil eraser and are usually magnetized so they can be stuck on the back of or under some metallic object. This one was on the back of a sign at the entrance to a busy park. It happened to be black but they can be painted to closely match nearly any surface.
Urban caches don't have to be bland or tiny. There are some incredibly creative cachers out there creating some really neat and unique cache containers. It took us 3 or 4 trips to find this one. We'd been looking for half an hour or so when Jenna began tugging on a stick in an odd location and says "Hey, whats this?"
Here's another that sticks out like a sore thumb yet blends in perfectly with its surroundings. Not too unusual to see a PVC pipe stick-up behind a building, right?
Cache containers don't necessarily have to be box-like or cylinder shaped. A Slim-Jim can be tucked away in just about any deep crevice and are a bear to find!
Some look like ordinary objects we see most every day and don't think twice about.
So there you have it…a little taste of urban caching. Now Get Out!…and go find a few yourself.


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I always wanted to be the person who beat infertility and welcomed pregnancy with open arms. And while part of me is like that, another part is not. I get so excited seeing my baby on the ultrasound monitor and tears slide out of the corner of my eyes out of relief and joy. But if I'm honest with myself, it's mostly relief. And while I'm usually in shock throughout each appointment that this is actually happening, today's scan was a new feeling entirely.
I finally realized that I never truly believed this day would come.
I never truly believed a baby would grow inside of me. But holy shit, one is. I always tried to remain hopeful, but at a certain point, I think 3 years into infertility, I accepted that I would never experience the highs and lows of pregnancy. Even the days when I was sick as a dog, I was usually convinced it was leftover hormones from the pregnancy, but that the baby wasn't still around. And don't get me started on the morning after days I was actually able to eat healthy and walk more than 2,000 steps in a day. I would majorly freak out and feel guilty about wishing I didn't look so fat* (I know I'm not actually fat, but the rolls-yes that was plural-on my back ARE fat and slightly disturb me*), while also trying to remind myself that I had simply had a healthy day and that's why I look a teeny tiny bit smaller. And I avoid people. Because when I see them, all we want to talk about is my pregnancy and I somehow feel like an imposter. Like I'm just biding my time until this pregnancy goes away. It feels so surreal to me and no one IRL gets that.
Yes, I'm excited and feel so blessed to have come this far. I have started a private baby registry that I put my top choices of baby needs on so when it gets more real, I can actually sit down and make decisions. I have researched daycare centers because I only want my child with my parents-in-law to watch our baby 2 days a week (FIL doesn't respect the parents' wishes and let's his grandkids watch as much TV/videos as they want and gives then candy at a very early age). We even went on 2 tours today and got on a yearlong waiting list and I was SO excited the whole time. So I'm planning on there being a baby here in October, and I so desperately want this baby, but it still doesn't feel real.
I hope one day it will. So I will stop making everyone uncomfortable being so uncertain and seemingly less excited than them.
Ok, onto the fun stuff. I'm 12w3d and baby measured 13w1d. So staying consistently 5 days ahead. The NT measure was 2.2mm so within normal, thank God! The tech wouldn't look for the sex so all of you finding out at your NT scans, I'm SO jealous! And we found our baby's daycare center and met all the teachers. This one does the primary care system, where 1 teacher is assigned to your child, and then they move up with the child through the different rooms. They also separate the walkers from non-walkers in the infant room, which I really like. And they believe in whole foods, even making fresh baby food. Which is part of tuition so I'm glad I'm paying for foods I would actually cook for my child. Oh! The best part? It's located about 2 blocks from my office! Which means that if I'm able to breastfeed, I can actually go on my lunch hour to feed my kid!!!! And even if I'm formula-feeding, I can still spend that quality time with Baby, obvi!
Oh and yes, I've had body image issues* from like 14dpt, but they are starting to resolve. I have a short torso (less than 2 inches from my last rib to my hip) and my weight always goes only to that region, so I always knew I would "show" early, but it was still hard to accept. Also, I have gained the aforementioned back fat and have lost all muscle definition in my arms due to being too sick and fatigued to work out. I don't fit my clothes so I have slowly been buying maternity counted clothes online (I highly recommend Old Navy during their sales as they're mat clothes are about the same price as the rest!) but haven't fit them well. When I opened a package of dresses I ordered, I was quite alarmed at how large they were! I refused to try them on because I was afraid I would fit them and kept reminding myself that they're not huge, just have extra material in the tummy. Finally, I came to terms with my body this weekend and tried on the dresses and fell in love with my body! Yes, they fit lol. But they also have so much room to grow. And by this time my shorts/Capri order arrived and I was THRILLED to look so cute.
But for some reason my maternity clothes make me feel like an imposter too. Sigh. Oh well, one battle at a time!
*Please, no lectures about pregnant bodies being beautiful and so forth. I know. And I'm getting there.


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Acupuncture is one of the oldest forms of medicine having been used in China for over 3,000 years. Traditional Chinese acupuncture works by the belief that energy flows freely through the body via channels called meridians. When there is a problem the energy stagnates, and the acupuncture helps to restore the healthy flow of energy back through the body.
However scientific evidence in recent medicine has shown that acupuncture stimulates the brain to produce natural pain relieving chemicals called endorphins, these assist the body to heal itself and give pain relief.
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Pratibha Enterprises is a Pune, Maharashtra (India), settled business enterprise that was established in 2007 as an eminent manufacturer and service provider. Accredited with ISO 9001:2008 certificate and our infrastructural area is about 40,000 square foot. Besides, the foundation of our ethical business unit is laid by an intellectual man Mr. Sanjay Pawar. His deep understanding of diverse market structures and great knowledge of customers exact requirements have led company to attain a glorious position in the industry.
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Located in the heart of the Thar desert, the ochre-coloured buildings of this city founded in 1156 by Rao Jaisal appear like a mirage to visitors, some of whom arrive here in exotic and somewhat uncomfortable fashion on the back of a camel! A visit of the fort, a citadel within a citadel, is a must; here visitors can relive the history of Jaisalmer, a city attacked on numerous occasions. Nowadays, the only fight its bastions face is against water seepage and the risk of collapse. Wander through the narrow streets of the lower town to discover its sumptuous havelis; above all, make sure you visit the impressive Jain temples, with their magnificent filigree marble work.


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