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Knife crime is a health risk for young people – it can’t be solved by policing alone
Education & Development

Knife crime is a health risk for young people – it can’t be solved by policing alone

...Educational Maintenance Allowance, Connexions Careers Service or housing benefits, and youth support services have been decimated. Those fortunate enough to get into university have seen tuition fees tripled, while maintenance grants for students from poorer backgrounds have been scrapped. The teenage years are associated with risky and problematic behaviours for...
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Article 5 mins
Why Michelle Obama's farewell is a masterclass in speech making
Society, Politics & Law

Why Michelle Obama's farewell is a masterclass in speech making

...education, one of her signature issues – but laden as it was with the subtext of the end of an era, it may in itself be one of her greatest legacies. Gracious, understated, articulate, and intelligent, Obama spoke from the heart to an assembled audience of school guidance counsellors. Her message was a simple one, but the speech had an uncommon depth too. Becoming...
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The making of Industrial Britain: A gradual revolution?
History & The Arts

The making of Industrial Britain: A gradual revolution?

...technologies coming before your eyes. How this transformation happened is one of the great questions of historical study, and not just for academics; whether you’re interested in the environment, social issues, or the sources of prosperity, the history of how economic modernity came to be really matters. Historians have been debating this subject for years, and the...
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Article 10 mins
The Origins of the Idea of the Industrial Revolution
History & The Arts

The Origins of the Idea of the Industrial Revolution

...technologies used in the cotton manufacture. For example, in a passage added to Anderson’s The Origin of Commerce in 1789, the journalist William Combe wrote that “some years previous to this period, an event happened which portended a considerable revolution in the manufactures of Great Britain. This was the invention of Mr Arkwright’s celebrated machine, which is...
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Article 10 mins
Cloning
Nature & Environment

Cloning

...Technology continued to advance and in 1984 Steen Willadsen, a Danish embryologist working in Texas, succeeded in cloning a sheep using a nucleus from a cell of an early embryo. This exciting result was soon replicated by others in a host of other organisms, but it only seemed to work when early embryo cells were used. Researchers began to think that animal embryo cells...
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Article 30 mins
Piracy, anonymity & parametric politics: An interview with Ned Rossiter and Soenke Zehle
History & The Arts

Piracy, anonymity & parametric politics: An interview with Ned Rossiter and Soenke Zehle

...Technology moves fast, but the means of understanding its movements do not, given the new media theory’s obligate and persistent homage to Deleuze’s early nineties programme. The gratuitousness of this reference today, combined with the lack of specificity concerning contemporary implementations of cybernetic modes of machinic governance, might just as well introduce...
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Article 15 mins
Understanding language and learning
Languages

Understanding language and learning

...educational professionals, whether they teach language or any other subject, as well as to students studying language or anyone interested in how learning takes place through linguistic interaction. The course will also be of interest to a wider audience because it views learning not only as something that takes place in a formal educational context, such as a classroom...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Hybrid working: starting in the workplace
Money & Business

Hybrid working: starting in the workplace

...education, or the next step in developing your career – can be exciting and scary. If it’s a hybrid organisation, and your first day is in a remote location rather than a physical workplace, that can be even more disorientating. This course aims to help you navigate your new organisational culture, build relationships with your work colleagues in a hybrid environment,...
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Level 1: Introductory 7 hrs