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The Z Files: Professor Geoff Palmer
Health, Sports & Psychology

The Z Files: Professor Geoff Palmer

...world’s most respected scientists working in grain and cereals. He’s broken almost every stereotype going. He was born in the same part of Jamaica as my mother and has encountered poverty, racism and some of the educational difficulties I have. I want to find out how he has coped with and overcome these challenges, and how he became a legend in the brewing industry....
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Innovative efforts to raise wages
Money & Business

Innovative efforts to raise wages

...world...[Protesters in Washington D.C. arguing for a higher minimum wage] The need to raise wages is generally accepted as being important. The decline in what people earn and the subsequent inequality this has contributed too is undoubtedly a major contemporary problem. Less clear, however, is how to best address this issue. There are now major policy debates concerning...
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Ethics Bites
History & The Arts

Ethics Bites

...world of copyright. Find out more about Richard, and ethics, at www.open2.net/ethicsbites. Sex and Perversion When does sex bring fulfilment and when is it hollow? What are the limits of sexual expression? Roger Scruton talks about sex and perversion. Find out more about Roger, and ethics, at www.open2.net/ethicsbites. Business Ethics Should companies consider anything...
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Belfast - healthy city
Society, Politics & Law

Belfast - healthy city

...World Health Organisation's Healthy Cities Project. The aim was to get as many institutions as possible to make health central to their planning and to give the diverse communities of Belfast a real say in their future. What were the challenges they faced? What solutions did they evolve? In this album Healthy Cities founder member Ilona Kickbusch and Belfast health...
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The 1912 Ryedale Glove Factory Strike, Dumfries
Society, Politics & Law

The 1912 Ryedale Glove Factory Strike, Dumfries

...heritage that belies its image today as primarily a market town, regional centre and hub for the rural communities of Dumfries and Galloway. In particular, the town has a rich past as a location for the manufacturing of tweed cloth and hosiery. Alongside this lies another important legacy – a place of industrial disputes and trade union activity. Scotland on Screen:...
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Children and ethnicity
Education & Development

Children and ethnicity

...heritage or background. What makes an ethnic group different from others will vary from one group to the next. For some it can be skin colour while for others it can be nationality, religion, language or shared cultural traditions. In many cases it is actually a combination of two or more of these. In all cases it is important to realize that there is nothing natural nor...
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Is my child being exploited? How to spot the signs
Health, Sports & Psychology

Is my child being exploited? How to spot the signs

...heritage or sexuality Recruiting the child into terrorist or radicalised activities Child criminal exploitation can take place in person, online, and across age groups – meaning it is really hard to briefly define, and is potentially so serious we do not think or can bear to think our children or the children we know can be involved. Increasingly we are becoming aware...
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Practising systems thinking in practice (STiP)
Science, Maths & Technology

Practising systems thinking in practice (STiP)

...world’ are understood by a practitioner using STiP explore the skills for managing in a particular way using STiP, by developing your systemic sensibility, systems literacy and systems thinking in practice capability provide a reflexive account of an experience of conducting an inquiry/co-inquiry into your systems thinking in practice for managing change by using a STiP...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs