In order to maintain their employability, people will need to keep learning at different stages through their lives.

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The findings are helping to shed light on the earliest stages of learning.

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Second, the initial stages of learning a skill invariably involve tedium.

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Prominent universities have therefore tended to band together for support in the early stages of exploring e-learning, and they have often launched their efforts under names other than their own, even though they have some of the strongest brands in education.

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Those neurons in the frontal cortex that we needed in the initial stages are now freed up to help in learning something else, and the area goes back to its normal size.

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They used a grape press, tasted juice in various stages of fermenting and attended a "riddling" lesson, learning how to turn wine bottles to facilitate yeast removal.

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This requires that the State plays a central role in resource provision and regulation, a commitment by schools to promote collaborative learning and to take into account the specific needs of teachers at different stages in the career path, and the involvement of teacher training institutions.

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She added that while most treatments for Alzheimer's targeted the disease's early stages, this research showed that even after major brain damage it was still possible to improve learning and memory.

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