The introduction of the National Curriculum in the 1980s meant that all young people studied English, Maths and Science up to the age of 16.
Bob Cater noted that while there has been a positive increase in the number of pupils studying mathematics after the age of 16, advances in the number of people studying science, design and technology and engineering have only been modest.
During the 300 years between the Renaissance and the Industrial Age--years of astounding advances in science, art, literature and democratic governance--the GWP per capita grew only 20%.
And for this science fair, at the age of 17, she discovered a promising new way to improve treatment for ovarian cancer -- at 17.
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Gone was the age of man harnessing other men, and on the rise was the age of man harnessing the power of nature through science and industry to advance human life.
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Science has also been on the trail of myriad age-defying drugs.
But there is one area where Bell Labs, and many other corporate labs from the golden age of U.S. science, often floundered.
Professor Mackintosh said it was for policy makers to decide on altering the age of responsibility, but the changing science meant it should at least be reviewed.
Hsu graduated from the University of Washington at age 16 with three bachelor of science degrees.
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He decided to go back to school to study political science at the University of Wyoming, and 12 years later at the age of 34 Cheney became the youngest person to hold the position of White House chief of staff in the Gerald Ford administration.
NASA, that the real point of space exploration was to do science a considerable achievement in an age when political prestige rested on manned space flights.
Earlier this month, U.S. District Judge Edward Korman of New York blasted the Obama administration for imposing the age-17 limit, saying it had let election-year politics trump science and was making it hard for women of any age to obtain the emergency contraception in time.
Brooklyn, New York ( VBS.TV) -- Vincent Fournier's photography captures a longing for the space age that lives somewhere between the recently made-possible and the science fiction of the '70s and '80s.
What I did know at the age of 19 is that I had excelled in high school in math and science and at baseball outside of the classroom.
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There my own Golden Age of Science Fiction came, in some sense, to an end, the othernesses of my adolescence joining up with the wider tributary of literature, the mother of all otherness.
Tia Savea, who lives across the street from Taft's science building, said she saw a youth, about 15 or 16 years of age, walk by her window with a gun shortly before the shooting.
When I decided at the age of 14 that I wanted to leave home to go to the NC School of Science and Mathematics, it was dad who packed up the car and made sure that I got there.
Science fiction lost a giant with reports that legendary author Ray Bradbury passed away in Los Angeles at the age of 91.
It is a room for Mr. Rubin's son, age 15, to prepare his science presentation, or for Mr. Rubin to read while the rest of the family is doing homework or watching television.
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