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Modern slavery
Society, Politics & Law

Modern slavery

...et al (Judgment) IT-96-23 & IT -96923/1-T (22 February 2001). These are: ‘control of someone’s movement, control of physical environment, psychological control, measures taken to prevent or deter escape, force, threat of force or coercion, duration, assertion of exclusivity, subjection to cruel treatment and abuse, control of sexuality and forced labour’ (para. 77)....
Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Environment: treading lightly on the Earth
Nature & Environment

Environment: treading lightly on the Earth

...et al., 2011). Figure 2 The footprint as a powerful image of treading on or occupying the Earth. A UK individual’s carbon footprint arises mainly from home energy use and personal travel, including flights, and from consumption of food, goods and services...Environment: treading lightly on the Earth: 1.3 Individual and household carbon footprints - There are different...
Diversity and inclusion in the workplace Badge icon
Money & Business

Diversity and inclusion in the workplace

...et al (2020) focus on gender and race related advice for white men in the US, but they ‘believe it can be used by members of any privileged group who want to create inclusive organisations’: Educate yourself – take the time to read, listen, watch and deepen understanding. Recognise that members of an underrepresented group won’t all have the same experiences. Own...
Empires: power, resistance, legacies
History & The Arts

Empires: power, resistance, legacies

...et opinions de Jules Ferry. Discours sur la politique extériure et coloniale, (1893–1898), p. 210–12 ‘[T]he superior races have a right vis-à-vis the inferior races [...] I repeat that the superior races have a right, because they have a duty towards them. They have the duty to civilise the inferior races [...] Can you deny, can anyone deny, that there is more...
Cloning
Nature & Environment

Cloning

...Institute of Medical Research. He is interested in how cells choose their fate and is familiar with the techniques used in cloning, having worked with embryonic stem cells from the mouse for about 25 years. He feels that research into cloning technology and maybe its application will be very useful in curing people with a wide range of diseases. On cloning human beings:...
Article 30 mins
Engendering citizenship
Society, Politics & Law

Engendering citizenship

...institutions of our society and so citizenship has been useful as an organising tool. It worries me that conceptually trying to understand a fairer and more just society, citizenship might not work for all disabled people and for all women. There is an issue about now we have legislation, we have inclusion, we have in Britain we have legislation apparently protecting...
Level 2: Intermediate 1 hr
School geography: Exploring a definition
Education & Development

School geography: Exploring a definition

...et al. (2003) candidly admit, that the discipline, if it exists, has an identity crisis. Maybe it is time to identify – for school geography, a subset of the wider discipline – a small number of defining concepts. This is a worthy goal for subject associations such as the Geographical Association (GA) to work for because, without such a list (which has to be short to...
Sustainable Scotland
Nature & Environment

Sustainable Scotland

...et al, 1989). The underlying principle here being that if, for example, something is taken out of the earth, something else renewable must be substituted as compensation. The extreme of this idea would be not to take anything out of the earth at all, but that would perhaps be a little unrealistic. If there is no decline in natural capital, then the sustainability is seen...
Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs