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Teaching in Focus No. 17: “Do new teachers feel prepared for teaching?”

New teachers are more likely to feel prepared in the content of their subject field(s), rather than the pedagogy or classroom practice of their subject field(s).




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Do new teachers feel prepared for teaching? (OECD Education Today Blog)

One of the greatest challenge for new teachers, does not come from not knowing what to teach, but from not knowing how to teach what they know and how to manage a classroom in all its strange and exciting complexity.




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MP truck accident: Five migrant workers killed, 11 injured after truck overturns in Narsinghpur

The accident took place when the labourers were travelling from Telangana's Hyderabad city to Agra in Uttar Pradesh.




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Four Indian Army & seven Chinese PLA soldiers injured as blows exchanged in North Sikkim

The Indian and Chinese Army were also engaged in 73-day Doklam stand-off along the Sikkim border between June and August 2017.




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Redefining Urban: a new way to measure metropolitan areas

This report compares urbanisation trends on the basis of a common methodology which helps cross-country comparison of the socio-economic and environmental performance of metropolitan areas in 28 OECD countries.




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UN World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction, Sendai, Japan

The OECD event "Risk Governance and Resilient Cities" will examine how risk governance can better manage complex risks and how to improve the resilience of cities to these risks.




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Urban Mobility System Upgrade: How shared self-driving cars could change city traffic?

This report explores this question on the basis of detailed mobility data including origin, destination and timing of all trips for a mid-sized European city. ITF developed a model to test various alternative transport system configurations that would provide the same level of mobility (locations and timing) as today.




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How shared self-driving cars could change city traffic

In 2011, TIME Magazine named collaborative consumption (or the sharing economy as it is often called) as one of the top 10 ideas that will change the world. Four years on, this prediction seems to be holding true. The number of companies operating in the sharing economy is rising rapidly in the transport sector alone.




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OECD Eurasia Week 2017 - Openness for shared prosperity (23-25 October 2017)

This high-level meeting will be organised for the first time in the Eurasia region, in Almaty, Kazakhstan. This event creates an opportunity to further strengthen relations between the countries of the region and the OECD and serves as a platform for a discussion on a broad spectrum of thematic issues relevant to further improving the region’s competitiveness.




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Spa Manager Required In Portugal Under TRC

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Six Years of OECD Work on The Safety of Manufactured Nanomaterials: Achievements and Future Opportunities

This communication outlines the achievements made so far by OECD in addressing the human health and environmental safety implications of manufactured nanomaterials




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OECD improves tool to predict the hazards of chemicals

Governments and the chemical industry spend millions of dollars every year testing the safety of chemicals that people use in their everyday lives. Computer modelling, through the OECD-designed QSAR Toolbox software, now replaces many of the tests traditionally done in the laboratory. This allows regulators and industry to save money and use fewer animals to predict the hazardous properties of chemicals.




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Guidance on Sample Preparation and Dosimetry for the Safety Testing of Manufactured Nanomaterials

This is a guidance on sample preparation and dosimetry, to which special attention should be paid when testing nanomaterials for human health and environmental safety endpoints.




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Report of OECD Workshop on Natech Risk Management (Natural-hazard triggered technological accidents)

This is the report of the workshop on Natural-hazard triggered technological accidents (Natech) that took place 23-25 May 2012. It investigated the specific elements of the prevention of, preparedness for, and response to chemical accidents caused by natural hazard or natural disaster.




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Current Developments/Activities on the Safety of Manufactured Nanomaterials

This document provides information on current/planned activities related to the safety of manufactured nanomaterials in OECD member and non-member countries that attended at the 10th meeting of OECD’s Working Party on Manufactured Nanomaterials (Paris France, 27-29 June 2012).




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Predicting genetic toxicity with the QSAR Toolbox

11/07/2013 –Recently the OECD released the third generation of the QSAR Toolbox. For this purpose, the guidance document for grouping chemicals to fill data gaps for genetic toxicity and genotoxic carcinogenicity have been updated. This guidance document should support the user of the QSAR Toolbox to build categories that are mechanistically and structurally robust.




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Predicting aquatic toxicity with the QSAR Toolbox

11/07/2013 –Recently the OECD released the third generation of the QSAR Toolbox. For this purpose, the guidance document for grouping chemicals to fill data gaps for acute aquatic toxicity have been updated. This guidance document should support the user of the QSAR Toolbox to build categories that are mechanistically and structurally robust.




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Co-Operation on Risk Assessment: Prioritisation of Important Issues on Risk Assessment of Manufactured Nanomaterials - Final Report

This document follows on from a report entitled Important Issues on Risk Assessment of Manufactured Nanomaterials [ENV/JM/MONO(2012)8]. This report identified a range of issues which the WPMN considered important in risk assessment and which should be addressed in the future. It summarised results of a survey which was circulated to delegations of the WPMN, methodologies used to analyze the survey, and the identified priorities.




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OECD countries address the safety of manufactured nanomaterials

The OECD has recommended its Member Countries apply existing international and national chemical regulatory frameworks to manage the risks associated with manufactured nanomaterials.




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Ecotoxicology and Environmental Fate of Manufactured Nanomaterials: Test Guidelines

This document includes the conclusions and recommendations resulting from a workshop that addressed the ecotoxicology and environmental fate of manufactured nanomaterials, and in particular the applicability of existing OECD Test Guidelines (TG) related to these topics. A number of TG developments are underway at OECD as a follow-up to these recommendations.




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Removal/emission predictions of wastewater treatment for exposure assessment and Pollutant Release and Transfer Registers

This document compiles information on the current methodologies, tools and models and helps readers identify appropriate models/ and methodologies for estimating substance-specific removal/emissions from wastewater treatment systems. It could support efforts to improve these models and tools.




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Report of the OECD expert meeting on the physical chemical properties of manufactured nanomaterials and test guidelines

This report includes the conclusions and recommendation of an expert workshop on Physical-Chemical Properties of Manufactured Nanomaterials and Test Guidelines organized by OECD’s Working Party on Manufactured Nanomaterials. The workshop addressed issues relevant to the physical-chemical properties of manufactured nanomaterials from a regulatory perspective point with a view to the need for new or adapted test guidelines.




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Addendum Number 2 to the OECD Guiding Principles for Chemical Accident Prevention, Preparedness and Response (2nd ed.) to Address Natural Hazards Triggering Technological Accidents (Natechs)

An addendum to the OECD Guiding Principles on Chemical Accident Prevention, Preparedness and Response to address Natural Hazards Triggering Technological Accidents (Natech) Risk Management has just been published. The addendum consists of a number of amendments to the Guiding Principles and the addition of a new Chapter to provide more detailed guidance on Natech prevention, preparedness and response.




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Developments on the safety of manufactured nanomaterials: 2013

This document provides background information on activities related to manufactured nanomaterials, as well as other activities on nanotechnologies at the international level. The information provided in this document captures OECD activities between February and December 2013.




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Council Act: Revision to the "Decision-Recommendation on the Co-operative Investigation and Risk Reduction of Chemicals"

The Decision-Recommendation on the Co-operative Investigation and Risk Reduction of Chemicals revises and replaces a 1991 Decision-Recommendation of the Council. The Decision-Recommendation is composed of two parts: Part A focuses on the development of harmonised hazard and exposure assessment methodologies for chemicals and Part B focuses on risk prevention and reduction.




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Publications in the Series on the Safety of Manufactured Nanomaterials

Nanomaterials have unique physical and chemical features. OECD's Decision Framework and Guiding Principles tools fill data gaps in the hazard characterisation by identifying the most useful parameters and best available methods for a given type of nanomaterial.




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United States - Credit Rating

Standard & Poor's credit rating for the United States stands at AA+ with stable outlook. Moody's credit rating for the United States was last set at Aaa with stable outlook. Fitch's credit rating for the United States was last reported at AAA with stable outlook. DBRS's credit rating for the United States is AAA with stable outlook. In general, a credit rating is used by sovereign wealth funds, pension funds and other investors to gauge the credit worthiness of the United States thus having a big impact on the country's borrowing costs. This page includes the government debt credit rating for the United States as reported by major credit rating agencies.




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United States Coronavirus Recovered

United States recorded 238080 Coronavirus Recovered since the epidemic began, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). In addition, United States reported 80040 Coronavirus Deaths. This page includes a chart with historical data for the United States Coronavirus Recovered.




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Turkey - Credit Rating

Standard & Poor's credit rating for Turkey stands at B+ with stable outlook. Moody's credit rating for Turkey was last set at B1 with negative outlook. Fitch's credit rating for Turkey was last reported at BB- with stable outlook. DBRS's credit rating for Turkey is BB (high) with negative outlook. In general, a credit rating is used by sovereign wealth funds, pension funds and other investors to gauge the credit worthiness of Turkey thus having a big impact on the country's borrowing costs. This page includes the government debt credit rating for Turkey as reported by major credit rating agencies.




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Amazon’s phone is about credit, not calls

People seem to resign themselves to innovations they considered dubious at the outset




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Plouffe to retell Uber’s tale of red tape

Former Obama adviser is just the person to explain the taxi-calling app’s ‘free-market’ approach




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Top tips on reducing inheritance tax

Five ways legitimately to cut your IHT bill






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Kremlin-linked cyber hackers steal hundreds of medical trial records from British coronavirus lab 

This newspaper revealed last week how hackers linked to Russia and Iran were behind 'utterly reprehensible' hits on British institutions.




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More than half a million Zoom accounts are offered for sale

Crooks can buy usernames, passwords and other data to break into private online meetings and steal sensitive information from banks, financial firms and even universities.




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Riot police clash with hundreds of anti-lockdown protesters in Berlin

In Berlin, hundreds of protesters swarmed Alexanderplatz yesterday, clashing with riot police officers and shouting 'We are the people!' and 'Freedom!'.




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Qantas announces staff will be made redundant - but they can't say how many will lose their jobs

Qantas chief executive Alan Joyce, who makes nearly $24million a year and is the highest-paid CEO in Australia, confirmed the company needed to cut its $4.3billion wage bill.




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Qantas plane on its way to Wuhan to rescue hundreds of Australians touches down in Hong Kong

A Qantas plane is en route to Wuhan to rescue some of the 600 Australians trapped in the Chinese city plagued by coronavirus. 




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Qantas is found to have underpaid hundreds of workers up to $7.1MILLION over the past eight years

The national carrier on Friday said they entered an enforceable undertaking with the Fair Work Ombudsman to rectify a misclassification issue.




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Qantas allows customers to cancel their flights and use credit for later trips amid coronavirus

Qantas passengers will be able to cancel booked flights and use the credit to reschedule trips later on.




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Qantas bows to furious Australian customers and overhauls its coronavirus credit policy

Qantas has moved to revamp its credit policy during the coronavirus crisis after a wave of anger from out-of-pocket customers.




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Harry Dunn's life mattered and we will honour it

Almost nine months since 19-year-old Harry Dunn tragically lost his life, his family wake every day with the knowledge that justice has not been served.




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Police fire pepper balls at crowd of protesters gathered at site of officer-involved fatal shooting

Several dozen gathered at the intersection of 62nd Street and Michigan Road in Indianapolis on Saturday, where a police officer fatally shot Dreasjon 'Sean' Reed, 21, on Wednesday.




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BRITs 2020: Laura Whitmore in 'newsprint' dress on red carpet

Laura Whitmore put on a brave face as she hit the BRIT awards red carpet on Tuesday, three days after her friend Caroline Flack took her own life.




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BRITs 2020 red carpet: Iris Law, 19, wears black cut-out dress

The model, 19, wowed in a black cut-out caged gown with metallic button detailing on it.




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BRITs 2020 red carpet: Ellie Goulding in revealing cut-out dress

The singer, 33, certainly ensured all eyes were on her as she hit the red carpet in the boldest look of the night at the 2020 BRIT Awards at London's O2 Arena on Tuesday evening.




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Louise Redknapp attends BRITs after tribute to Caroline Flack

The singer, 45, opted for a black plunging tuxedo dress with a sequinned neckline and padded shoulders.




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BRITs 2020: Ashley Roberts wears glitter bra top on red carpet

The Pussycat Dolls singer, 38, flashed her sizzling washboard abs in a tiny dazzling crop top, which she teamed with a matching floor-length skirt.




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BRITs 2020: Love Island's Montana Brown shines on red carpet

Montana Brown looked incredible as she and Amber Davies led the Love Island stars on the 2020 BRIT awards red carpet on Tuesday night.