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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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How is a University obsession with teenagers hurting part-time students?
Education & Development

How is a University obsession with teenagers hurting part-time students?

...work commitments. Most are women, often juggling caring responsibilities alongside studying. Many were the first in their families to embark on higher education, and 22% reported disabilities or long-term health impairments. Many respondents managing mental health problems, medication, hospital visits and declining mobility viewed part-time study as a lifeline. Only 15%...
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Sea level rise in Happisburgh, UK
Nature & Environment

Sea level rise in Happisburgh, UK

...working with nature’ is also seen as an important strategy. Since the mid-1990s DEFRA has been producing Shoreline Management Plans (SMP) for areas of coastline in England and Wales. These are controversial as they sometimes take a strategy of non-intervention. There are three strategies that can be used when managing sea level rise: Non-intervention Managed retreat...
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