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Should the NHS try a Dutch model for social care?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Should the NHS try a Dutch model for social care?

...skilling by having higher protections and investment in skills development. This security includes a higher percentage of flexible workers that are represented by Dutch trade unions, including new unions designed specifically for self-employed workers. Can we go Dutch? With a £22 billion efficiency challenge and “restructuring fatigue” within health and social care,...
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Radical alternatives to prison
Society, Politics & Law

Radical alternatives to prison

...skills training. Implementing social policies The current focus of punishing the offender has meant that the victim is largely ignored. One radical alternative would be to turn the system on its head – rather than inflict pain and suffering the aim of interventions would be to provide assistance, help and support for the person who has been harmed. This would ultimately...
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Women in the Railway, the War and the Unions
Society, Politics & Law

Women in the Railway, the War and the Unions

...skills they have for running a household would make them more than capable of running the country. ‘Look at the government today, look at Mr Asquith, at Mr Lloyd George, at Mr Gladstone, at Mr John Burns! What is the use of them? Their favourite word is impossible. Our wives would turn all their Impossibles into accomplished facts in one session.’ [A page from the...
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Managing our personal financial risks from the changed climate
Nature & Environment

Managing our personal financial risks from the changed climate

...skills and knowledge. It is not all gloom and doom. What new skills will we need to take advantage of the opportunities they offer for sustainable careers and savings? TCFD asks companies to put a financial value on the threats they face. You might feel that your possible domestic losses are beyond price but weighing up the personal costs we face can turn good intentions...
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The Bottom Line Expert Opinion: Art and the Business of Taste
Money & Business

The Bottom Line Expert Opinion: Art and the Business of Taste

...skills needed to properly and effectively market your creations. These skills are perhaps especially relevant for contemporary artists – who must rely on marketing based values of branding in order to succeed in an increasingly competitive artistic market. Kim Lehman and Ian Fills explore this issue in their article “Survive in the Art World: Sell the Brand, Market...
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Trust in the Workplace
Health, Sports & Psychology

Trust in the Workplace

...skills gaps mean that there will be an increasing need for employees to retrain throughout their life histories. Those who anticipate the change and take proactive steps to reskill (particularly in digital, AI and soft skills) will be better equipped to resist redundancies and underemployment. Conversely, those who are struggling to re-enter the job market may feel...
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What happens to our brain as we age and how can we stop the decline?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What happens to our brain as we age and how can we stop the decline?

...skills (memory and thinking) can be challenging. So, let’s have a look what happens when our brains are ageing and how we can prevent brain decline (memory and thinking) as we grow older in a few simple steps. It is an urban myth that every older person will develop dementia and in reality, it is a spectrum from normal age-related decline through to a clinically...
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Seven myths of being a female engineer
Science, Maths & Technology

Seven myths of being a female engineer

...skills, not technical ones Technical ability is not defined by gender. “The stereotypical fact”, Diana Thomas McEwen says, “is women don’t know anything about engineering, which is simply not true. Absolutely not true.” Crucially, too, it’s a myth that being an engineer doesn’t require what is defined as “soft skills”: self-awareness, empathy,...
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