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Do enforced language tests help migrants integrate more smoothly?
Languages

Do enforced language tests help migrants integrate more smoothly?

...writing for example. IELTS (including the ‘general’ IELTS) was designed to test formal ‘school’ English skills, and therefore discriminates against migrants with limited education, such as refugees and humanitarian arrivals. It also discriminates against women who have missed out on basic schooling due to gender discrimination or poverty in their country of...
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Christmas at war: 1916 - Festivities at the front
History & The Arts

Christmas at war: 1916 - Festivities at the front

...write than fight), urging their British opponents to "kindly keep quiet Christmas, we do the same". But no Christmas truce has or will be made, whatever the wishes of the homesick Germans, and it is safe to say there will be no fraternising by opposing armies, although, on the other hand, one does not anticipate a really important spurt of activity. Doubtless the gunners...
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Why we no longer need melted-down bracelets to make bullets (or build roads)
Society, Politics & Law

Why we no longer need melted-down bracelets to make bullets (or build roads)

...writes Alan Shipman. ...[Original Kitchener World War I Recruitment poster] Offering the government a bracelet for to re-fashion into a bullet wasn’t an unusual gesture in 1915. If Britons weren’t putting their lives in the line, many felt compelled to make financial sacrifices to help pay for the war. With most taxable economic activity suspended, the country had to...
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The Women and Scottish Railway History Collection
Society, Politics & Law

The Women and Scottish Railway History Collection

...writing skills, researching the past and editing and presenting learning materials. Each article in the collection represents the end product of this learning experience. [v]Khadija Patel and Suzi Collins "This is a heartfelt collection of trade union activities highlighting that it is through storytelling that we share with each other and with future generations how we...
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What danger do asteroids pose to life on earth?
Science, Maths & Technology

What danger do asteroids pose to life on earth?

...by larger asteroids. So there is no need (yet) to start stockpiling baked beans and bottled water against our imminent demise by asteroid attack. The 50,000 tonnes of space material that hits Earth each year falls mainly as dust grains less than half a millimetre across. And given that we are all still here (at the time of writing…), it poses no threat to humanity....
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One Lump or Two? Understanding the Place of Sugar - Part One
Society, Politics & Law

One Lump or Two? Understanding the Place of Sugar - Part One

...Goldstein's huge book, The Oxford Companion to Sugar and Sweets (2015). Current students may want to look at DTS206's block on food, affluent diets and their effects on the environment. Steve Pile is Professor of Human Geography. He is currently writing about electricity for the new Environment and Society module, D213, which you will be able to study from 2018 onwards....
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A brief history of Science
History & The Arts

A brief history of Science

...writing based on pictures (Egypt and Mesopotamia) 5 800 first use of bronze (alloy of tin and copper) 3 700 first alphabet developed (Palestine) 3 500 first use of iron 2 600 era of Greek science, based on philosophy (Aristotle, Pythagoras) 1 000 Chinese invented printing 700 experimental science of William of Occam 500 Earth orbits the Sun (Copernicus) first printing...
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Messaging apps – paying attention and timing it right
Languages

Messaging apps – paying attention and timing it right

...write more when they can do so at a time of their choosing. [Image of a text showing beach video and text says overcast with a fresh breeze. ]On other occasions, people pick up their phone in order to share a photo or video they’ve taken. In these cases, people’s attention is less on their device, or even the people they’re contacting, but on the world around them,...
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