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Is English squeezing out local languages in Uganda?
Languages

Is English squeezing out local languages in Uganda?

...works as a language of inter-ethnic communication, of wider communication and as a lingua franca. It is used in all domains: education, media and telecommunication, urban hip-hop, trading and in church. The status of English English gained its status as the language for government officials and aristocrats during the colonial period. It was associated with a higher social...
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Uncovering Britain’s Lost Black Sporting Heroes
Health, Sports & Psychology

Uncovering Britain’s Lost Black Sporting Heroes

...work for Thomas Pitt, cousin of then Prime Minister William Pitt the Younger. By 1821 he had seemingly reached the highest levels of British gentry, becoming an usher at the coronation of King George IV. His 2015 biography, ‘Richmond Unchained’, suggests that much of this astonishing journey was down to his special talent for boxing – in those days a brutal,...
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The science of genetics
Nature & Environment

The science of genetics

...social and ethical dilemmas as they open up the possibility of redirecting our future evolution. The science of genetics The study of genes began in 1900 when it was shown that genes govern inheritance in many different creatures. In 1907 it was shown that the same patterns of inheritance could account for the transmission of eye colour in humans. However, not until 1953...
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The historical and ongoing persecution of Europe’s gypsies
History & The Arts

The historical and ongoing persecution of Europe’s gypsies

...social. In the 1950s, agreement was reached to compensate the Jewish victims of the Nazis. However, it was not until the 1980s and 1990s, after a determined campaign that involved hunger strikes by three concentration-camp survivors, that the Roma were recognised as victims of racial persecution and mass murder. By then, clearing the Roma of responsibility for their...
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Is it possible to have respect for the poor and homeless?
Society, Politics & Law

Is it possible to have respect for the poor and homeless?

...work, forced to use food banks. Nor, is it rhetorical to describe as a national disgrace that each night over 4,000 people are forced to sleep in the streets. But, beyond this what does it say about the kind of society we live in that we are growing accustomed to endemic poverty? The United Nations Declaration of Human Rights states in Article One that “All human beings...
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Trump and Brexit: What do they owe to economists?
Society, Politics & Law

Trump and Brexit: What do they owe to economists?

...works and avoid systematic errors in their forecasting because they would otherwise lose out in competitive markets to people with more rational expectations. In a new book, Uncertain Futures: Imaginaries, Narratives, and Calculation in the Economy, Jens Beckert and I argue that all three of these assumptions are highly questionable. We argue that dynamic capitalist...
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Writing your research proposal
Education & Development

Writing your research proposal

...Social Care, the DHSC. Achieving a doctorate, whether a PhD, EdD or DHSC confers the title Dr. Why write a Research Proposal? To be accepted onto a PhD / Professional Doctorate (PD) programme in the Faculty of Wellbeing, Education and Language Studies (WELS) at The Open University, you are required to submit a research proposal. Your proposal will outline the research...
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Five ways you can tell if your child is ‘normal’
Health, Sports & Psychology

Five ways you can tell if your child is ‘normal’

...worked in outpatient Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS), and one of the most useful ways in figuring out when a ‘problem was a real problem’ was by asking caregivers to compare their child’s behaviour to what is usual for them. There can be lots of changes in the teenage years, so it can be hard to tell if a certain change is a major concern. If you...
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