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Eric King and Bill Binney: Some thoughts on their interview
Society, Politics & Law

Eric King and Bill Binney: Some thoughts on their interview

...public and private sector bureaucracies do behave. The driving forces in the DNA of every bureaucracy are the twin desires for survival and growth. When you divide complex, deeply interconnected and interdependent public service systems up into competing quasi-autonomous silos - some bigger and more glamorous than others - and then instruct the leaders of those silos they...
Can the way research is reported play into sexist assumptions?
Society, Politics & Law

Can the way research is reported play into sexist assumptions?

...publication of a recent neuroscience study, which claimed to reveal marked differences between the brains of men and women. This study, published in late 2013 in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), applied a brain imaging technique called Diffusion Tensor Imaging to model the neural connectivity of the brains of 949 young people....
Using digital tools to save languages
Languages

Using digital tools to save languages

...public policies determine that certain languages become the standard in education, scientific research, and governance, while others are left to die a slow death. Because it's not obviously profitable to create media in “minority” languages, the growth and enrichment of those languages suffer, and many remain entirely undocumented. Just a few hundred years ago, the...
England’s Historic Battlefields: the Wars of the Roses
History & The Arts

England’s Historic Battlefields: the Wars of the Roses

...public as part of a burgeoning heritage industry. Yet the history relating to historic battlefields is often hard to unravel. There is often little to see above ground and few, if any, traces of the battle remain today, while the historical record is often biased in favour of the victors. This is especially the case with the battles of the Wars of the Roses. The Wars of...
Successful IT systems
Digital & Computing

Successful IT systems

...public money; to monitor the success of health education campaigns; to look for trends in various conditions. Computerised patient information makes the collation of such statistics much easier. They may also find that planning for staff use within the practice is easier. Computer system retailers/maintainers. Clearly they have benefits in selling their products and...
Level 3: Advanced 9 hrs
Promoting the effective management of children’s pain
Health, Sports & Psychology

Promoting the effective management of children’s pain

...health care professionals to be supported with relevant practice guidance on pain management understand the value of adopting an individual approach to a child and their family see the benefit of empowering parents to be effectively involved in the management of their child’s pain...Promoting the effective management of children’s pain: 1 Why pain matters - In this...
Hero and villain: Robert Clive of the East India Company
History & The Arts

Hero and villain: Robert Clive of the East India Company

...public office and because his administrative failures led to the catastrophic Bengal famine of 1769–1773. He has been described as the ‘worst corporate figure in British history’. The counterargument is that removing statues erases history and Clive deserves to be valorised as the military hero who defeated India’s Mughal rulers, established the supremacy of the...
Introducing social care and social work
Health, Sports & Psychology

Introducing social care and social work

...health distress; and people with learning or physical disabilities. The course is designed for people who are interested in and curious about social care or social work practice, or who might be thinking about working in these professions in the future. The activities within the course will help you think about practitioner roles, your own and other people’s identities,...