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Practice supervision and assessment in nursing
Health, Sports & Psychology

Practice supervision and assessment in nursing

...working with students in workplace settings across nursing provision. Core to these resources are the requirements of the Nursing & Midwifery Council (NMC) – the nursing regulator – to work in different ways to support learners. The principles discussed, however, would apply as best practice to any working environment where employees are seeking to develop themselves...
Success and failure in healthcare: should regulation be simple or integrated?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Success and failure in healthcare: should regulation be simple or integrated?

...work. It would allow information sharing in the public interest. Simple regulation would also ensure that if a practitioner was unfit to carry out their healthcare duties they can be prevented from doing so, or concerns be raised. This would necessitate a register of healthcare practitioners. Yet these conditions mirror closely what already happens. The General Medical...
Stuck in the middle of a pandemic: are international students migrants?
Society, Politics & Law

Stuck in the middle of a pandemic: are international students migrants?

...work in the retail and tourism sectors but now find themselves with either no jobs and income, or in the precarious position of having to work outside of the home. As university accommodation was shutting down everywhere some also lost access to housing. All these problems haunt their lives as students. Government regulations around minimum face-to-face attendance can no...
Selling Empire: Further resources
History & The Arts

Selling Empire: Further resources

...Working Papers on Africa and Asia historical to contemporary Working Papers on Commodities and Empire Books and articles Anthony, Scott. Public Relations and the Making of Modern Britain: Stephen Tallents and the Birth of a Progressive Media Profession (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2013). Anthony, Scott. ‘Imperialism and Internationalism: The British...
History offers Britain an important lesson on shutting down immigration
Society, Politics & Law

History offers Britain an important lesson on shutting down immigration

...work. This left space for the growth of radical parties such as the British National Party and the more recently formed UK Independence Party (UKIP). UKIP was founded in 1991 to oppose the Maastricht Treaty but became more visible in 2004, when it began speaking out more loudly about migration from Europe. That year, it won 12 seats in the European parliamentary...
Section 2: Red Clydeside and Glasgow 1919: Setting the Context
Society, Politics & Law

Section 2: Red Clydeside and Glasgow 1919: Setting the Context

...working class The growth and spread of trade union organisation By the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the Clydeside region was one of the most significant industrial centres in the entire UK. Its factories, engineering plants and shipyards had been instrumental in fuelling the expansion of the Empire during the second half of the nineteenth century. With...
The Material World: On Chesil Beach (getting closer to Titan)
Science, Maths & Technology

The Material World: On Chesil Beach (getting closer to Titan)

...work in the laboratory, it seemed that the material on Titan was probably granular or grainy. Could it be Titan's version of sand or gravel, produced by the continued action of flowing liquid over the underlying bedrock - which, in the case of Titan, would be methane flowing over ice? He produced many sample surfaces in the laboratory but knew that natural processes on...
Heart of a heartless world, soul of soulless conditions
History & The Arts

Heart of a heartless world, soul of soulless conditions

...work. (Ovid’s Metamorphoses (1st century CE) is studied in Myth in the Greek and Roman Worlds.) Ovid presents the reader with a numinous landscape in which anything can happen and where human beings might suffer traumatic transformations into wild animals or find themselves rooted to the spot as trees. The fascinating thing about such 'fantasy fiction' is that it...