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The impact of Jacob Zuma on the ANC and South Africa
Society, Politics & Law

The impact of Jacob Zuma on the ANC and South Africa

...despair. The recognition of its banality finally presents the opportunity for its people to sit as equals at the table with other Africans and engage in much needed dialogue on the kind of leadership and governance that would take them forward on the journey to an African Renaissance. This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original...
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Theresanomics explained
Money & Business

Theresanomics explained

...article The May Doctrine: Just Go with the Populist Flow in The Guardian. An abiding theme throughout her career has been that of a pragmatist rather than an ideologue. While in the cabinet as Home Secretary she displayed tendencies that both availed her to the right and liberal wings of her party. For instance, she doggedly stuck to what turned out to be rather...
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The reason for low wages
Money & Business

The reason for low wages

...article The Facts on Increasing the Minimum Wage by Mike Patton in Forbes summarises these debates. The fluctuation of wages is commonly portrayed by economists as a natural effect of market cycles or as attributable to iron-clad economic laws. Yet the modern problem of declining wages has a definite history. It can be traced back to now-decades-old policies favouring...
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Supporting Lifelong Learning with Blockchain
Digital & Computing

Supporting Lifelong Learning with Blockchain

...article by Professor John Domingue and Doctor Alexander Mikroyannidis to discover the answers and solutions which blockchain can bring to education...This article presents a scenario investigated by the QualiChain project for supporting lifelong learning through the use of Blockchain technology. Within the £40M budget, the Institute of Coding applied our work to...
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Why do Christmas crackers go bang?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Why do Christmas crackers go bang?

...article...Here's one to share during this year's Christmas dinner... The bright wrapping of the Christmas cracker contains a cardboard tube. Attached to the side of the tube inside the cracker is a strip of paper. This paper has been treated with a tiny amount of gunpowder – an explosive mixture of potassium nitrate, charcoal and sulphur. But there’s so little...
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Can I use 'we' and 'I' in my essay? Introducing corpus linguistics
Languages

Can I use 'we' and 'I' in my essay? Introducing corpus linguistics

...article, we'd get a more accurate result by searching a collection of student writing such as the British Academic Written English or 'BAWE' corpus (pronounced 'boar' like the animal). This corpus contains not just essays but also lab reports, case studies, literature reviews, and other types of writing that undergraduate and masters students do at university. Here I've...
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For older people, the storms might abate but the harm persists
Health, Sports & Psychology

For older people, the storms might abate but the harm persists

...has steadily declined since Hurricane Katrina in 2005. These programs fund activities that focus on making communities, including their older residents, more resilient to disasters. Without funds to support these activities, older adults will continue to suffer disproportionately. This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article....
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Five things you might like to know about Recovery Colleges
Health, Sports & Psychology

Five things you might like to know about Recovery Colleges

...et al. (2015) ‘The first Recovery College was established in 2009 by Rachel Perkins in South West London and a second College was quickly established in Nottingham’. You can see a video about the first recovery college here: Transcript The impetus for these colleges grew out of the recovery movement which developed quite steadily from the late 1980s onwards. A key...
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