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Should the Americans consider the lessons of Brexit before voting this November?
Society, Politics & Law

Should the Americans consider the lessons of Brexit before voting this November?

...history” and promised to remove the U.S. from its “unfair” rules. He does not stand alone among Republicans on this issue. Republican senators have expressed dismay about the pending Trans-Pacific Partnership, a deal that would join the U.S. with 11 Pacific Rim partners to govern roughly 40 percent of global trade. The language of U.S. trade opponents largely...
Demolishing Pasts, Uncertain Futures:The Symbolism of Glasgow’s Red Road Flats
Society, Politics & Law

Demolishing Pasts, Uncertain Futures:The Symbolism of Glasgow’s Red Road Flats

...histories and in a novel and in film – and few estates can claim that! That the rise of the Red Road Flats took place against the large-scale industrial decline of Glasgow and much of Clydeside more generally, is often overlooked in those dominant narratives that simply wish to portray the flats as ‘notorious’, ‘dangerous’ ‘ghettos’, as run-down...
The First World War continues: Britain’s dash for Mosul, Iraq, November 1918
History & The Arts

The First World War continues: Britain’s dash for Mosul, Iraq, November 1918

...History. Marshall ordered his troops to push on to Mosul on the evening of November 1st. But the previous day, the commander on the spot, General Cassels, had received a letter from his Ottoman counterpart, Ali Ihsan Pasha, requesting him to return to the position he held on October 30th. Ali Ihsan’s small force held the road to Mosul. The British political officer...
Social work law and UK regulation
Society, Politics & Law

Social work law and UK regulation

...family on a permanent basis. The need for regulation is both to protect the public and service users and to maintain confidence in the profession. It is necessary for social workers to register with their regulatory body and if they fail to do so they will no longer be allowed to be employed as a social worker. All the areas that need to be regulated in order to achieve...
Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs
Supporting babies and toddlers
Education & Development

Supporting babies and toddlers

...family really well. And I think she engaged in a lovely conversation with Chloe and is quite excited about finishing this blanket for her sister. [MUSIC PLAYING] So the mud kitchen area, it’s always here. It’s always got all of the equipment that the children need. However, what’s in here today might have been different to what’s in here yesterday. For example,...
Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Ahead of Super Tuesday, what have we learned about the candidates?
Society, Politics & Law

Ahead of Super Tuesday, what have we learned about the candidates?

...history works to Trump’s favor The importance of Trump’s double-digit victory in South Carolina extends far beyond the 50 delegates at stake in the primary election. Since 1980, the winner of the South Carolina GOP primary has won the GOP nomination in six of the last seven contested races. That’s why South Carolina is considered a bellwether state for the South....
Multiple Moonlets Maketh Mystery
Science, Maths & Technology

Multiple Moonlets Maketh Mystery

...history that initiated a major reform in what we believed was true about the Moon. The Apollo and Luna space mission programmes that took place between 1959 and 1976 acquired the first solid materials from the Moon’s surface, alongside more detailed remote sensing data than ever gathered before. The analysis of rocks samples returned from the Moon revealed that the...
Are robots about to take jobs from the poor?
Science, Maths & Technology

Are robots about to take jobs from the poor?

...families. Bangladesh’s garment industry has its flaws, some of them deep - the 2013 Rana Plaza factory collapse is just one tragic reminder. But, in a city of mud-drenched poverty, the absence of a garment industry would make things worse. So I was worried to hear a delegate at the Digital Development Summit, held in London last week (March 13), predict that robots will...