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Homeless people could avoid life-saving services, if there’s a risk of deportation
Society, Politics & Law

Homeless people could avoid life-saving services, if there’s a risk of deportation

...human rights. [A homeless man sleeping on newspaper and concrete] Homelessness is a rapidly growing issue in the UK A long history This story starts back in 2015, when the House of Commons heard about Operation Adoze – a pilot scheme by the Home Office to deport non-UK citizens from the European Economic Area (EEA) sleeping rough in London. Guidance notes clarifying the...
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Mo Mowlam and The Good Friday Agreement
Society, Politics & Law

Mo Mowlam and The Good Friday Agreement

...human level and she spoke to them on a human level. She listened and she heard and she wasn’t afraid to talk about the pain and the suffering whilst also focusing always on the need to compromise and to listen to one another, in order to stop the violence and the killings. You had to treat everyone as a human being even if you disagreed with them, or they had committed...
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Child spirituality
Education & Development

Child spirituality

...human being, especially a child or young person, to have a full quality of life, spirituality in all its aspects must be nurtured and affirmed. For children or young people who have been marginalised or who have suffered deprivation in every way, the need for such nurture and affirmation in human spirituality is all the more pronounced’. Children’s spiritual needs can...
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Can animals be courageous?
History & The Arts

Can animals be courageous?

...human animals can be courageous is not confined to the ancient world: in 1943, Maria Dickin, founder of the People’s Dispensary for Sick Animals, created the PDSA Dickin Medal to honour animals who played a role in World War II. According to the PDSA website, the Dickin Medal is awarded to animals that have displayed "conspicuous gallantry or devotion to duty while...
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Katherine Johnson: NASA mathematician and much-needed role model
Science, Maths & Technology

Katherine Johnson: NASA mathematician and much-needed role model

...Human computer In the 1950s, the US government was continuing to develop its flight capabilities, for which it required computers. Not the super-fast electronic technology of today, or even lumbering mechanical valve-driven machinery, but people. Johnson became one of a group of human computers who calculated (using slide rule and log tables) the flight dynamics of...
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Art and the Mexican Revolution
History & The Arts

Art and the Mexican Revolution

...Resource/Bob Schalkwijk/Scala, Florence. © Banco de México Diego Rivera Frida Kahlo Museums Trust, Mexico, D.F./DACS 2018. During the revolution, the Mexican bourgeoisie mobilised the radicalised peasantry and emergent working class to overthrow the dictatorship of Porfirio Díaz who had been installed with the backing of the United States in 1876. And after the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 7 hrs
Extreme endurance performances – who, what and why?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Extreme endurance performances – who, what and why?

...human body is capable of achieving? This course examines the subject from psychological, physiological and sociological perspectives to gain an understanding into the events and the people who compete in them...This free course explores what we mean by ‘extreme endurance performance’ and why increasing numbers of people are attracted to these events. What is it about...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Olympics, Paralympics, Olympians and Paralympians
Health, Sports & Psychology

Olympics, Paralympics, Olympians and Paralympians

...resources...The Olympic and Paralympic Games Tokyo 2020 (2021) Read the new content published throughout the Olympics and Paralympics, offering an insight into what it's like competing at the highest level in sport. Game(s). Set. Match Coach an athlete to Olympic or Paralympic success in our Medal Quest game, or discover your perfect sport in our Olympisize Me...
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