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"That's so gay!" Homophobic language and school
Languages

"That's so gay!" Homophobic language and school

...leadership is key to tackling this issue and how getting it right can lead to significant whole school improvement, including increased attendance and performance for pupils When making a judgement on safety and behaviour of a school, OFSTED inspectors will consider: Pupils’ behaviour towards, and their respect for other young people and adults and their freedom from...
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Impossible Peace 2: "The taigs are getting everything"
OpenLearn Ireland

Impossible Peace 2: "The taigs are getting everything"

...leadership. On the Springfield Road, on September 10th 2005, and just before the mayhem of that day, I spoke briefly with ‘Tomas’ (the IRA ‘P O’Neill) and in a corner of my diary page that day, I wrote the words - decommissioning by the end of the month. It would be a new page after a day when some in this place momentarily lost the plot and lost the peace. [Photo...
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How did Facebook likes help Labour at the ballot box?
Society, Politics & Law

How did Facebook likes help Labour at the ballot box?

...leadership bid. Having fought two leadership elections in two years, it had developed a strong sense of how to use social media, and video in particular, to deliver positive messages with viral attributes. Humour was a key tool, triggering an emotional response that made the content more shareable. With 24,000 activists across the country, Momentum was able to mobilise...
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Impossible Peace 2: The murders at Massereene
OpenLearn Ireland

Impossible Peace 2: The murders at Massereene

...leadership of this place at that time. Beside the names, I wrote the words, private meeting. And, just months later, the Progressive Unionist Party leader spoke at that loyalist news conference on decommissioning; when there was confirmation of just how close things came to falling apart not that many months earlier. Shoot back - or hold back? “In March 2009, all...
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How do we explain racial disproportionality in the criminal justice systems in the US and England and Wales?
Education & Development

How do we explain racial disproportionality in the criminal justice systems in the US and England and Wales?

...leadership, politicians, and the general publicWhile the outcomes of the Macpherson Report sent shockwaves across England and Wales and put increased pressure on police forces to demonstrate they were actively addressing ‘institutional racism’ within their forces, it also resulted in deep divides and vicious debates among police officers, police leadership,...
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Strategic planning for online learning
Education & Development

Strategic planning for online learning

...leadership challenges and strategic opportunities. Envisage the digital environment needed to enable staff to design online learning experiences. Learn to lead, manage and influence digitally-driven change across departments and schools. Build scenarios for alternative digital solutions. The course takes approximately 10 hours to complete. We hope you find this course...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Abolitionism must come from below: A critique of British Anti-Slavery Abolition
Society, Politics & Law

Abolitionism must come from below: A critique of British Anti-Slavery Abolition

...leadership. Privileging English liberty and free market economics over slavery was one way of addressing this moral deficit. Indeed, ‘English liberty’ (and the moral condemnation of slavery) and free trade was considered as something that could justify further imperial expansion around the globe, especially Africa. In other words, anti-slavery advocacy provided a new...
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Article 20 mins
Did the economic outlook encourage a snap election?
Money & Business

Did the economic outlook encourage a snap election?

...leadership of the Conservative Party in June 2016 she ruled out such a possibility. In her Easter message on April 16 she suggested that the country was uniting behind Brexit. Now she wants an election to resolve the issue after all. [The Conversation] But is that the real story behind this surprise announcement? Or has, as ever, economics got more to do with it? In her...
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