Pearson College Design and Technology entry report

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  Pearson College Design and Technology entry report

  The number of students on Pearson College’s Design and Technology Bachelor degree has fluctuated according to the number of high school students taking Design and Technology GCSEs.

  If we look at the chart, which shows the number of boys and girls taking the test we can see that, in 2011, the number of boys and girls who took the exam  .

  In 2010, 150,000 girls took the exam. In 2011, this number  to 75,000. There was  in the number of boys who took the exam from 145,000 to 80,000.

  In contrast, in 2013 there was  in the number of boys and girls who took the exam.

  In 2012, 75,000 boys took the exam. In 2013, this number  to 200,000.

  The number of girls  from 70,000 to 175,000. These numbers  from 2012 to 2013.
  

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If we look at this chart, showing the out-of-pocket costs, or cash payments, for complementary and alternative medicines, we can see the type of therapy or medicine on the left hand side and the amount in billions of dollars on the horizontal axis. The overall amount spent in one year on these products in the USA alone was almost $31 billion.

If we look at the chart in more detail, we can see that the greatest amount, approximately $15.5 billion, was spent on natural remedies, such as herbs and other plant-based natural products. The other spending on medicines was on homeopathic remedies, which are medicines made from highly diluted substances, and was close to $4 billion.

The rest of the spending was on practitioner treatments - massage, chiropractic and osteopathic care - and on mind-body exercises such as yoga. Together, the cost came to just over $12 billion.

When we take the cost of these treatments all together and compare it with spending on mainstream medicines we find that this equates to roughly 1.5% of total healthcare expenditure.

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69% = just  two thirds


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31% = just  a third
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19% = slightly less than a 


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52% = just   a half


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75% =   three quarters


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24.7% =   a quarter


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52% =   than a half


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40% =   two fifths


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99.9% =  everyone


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91% =   over three quarters