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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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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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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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Humans better at rapid change than we think
Nature & Environment

Humans better at rapid change than we think

...leadership from governments, or a combination of the two. It insists that both the costs and the benefits of change must be equally shared. “To be accepted, rapid change must be seen to be fair. This is especially true if and where there is any perceived sacrifice to be made for the greater good.” Secret human history One co-author, Andrew Simms of the New Weather...
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Apollo 11’s ‘one small step’ sparked a new rush to reach the Moon
Science, Maths & Technology

Apollo 11’s ‘one small step’ sparked a new rush to reach the Moon

...leadership in this global endeavour. Indeed, it has been very exciting to be involved in the theory-changing ­discovery of water in Moon rocks, which had been thought to be devoid of water for almost four ­decades since the first samples were analysed in 1969. [Buzz Aldrin on the Moon] Buzz Aldrin walking on the Moon Over the past decade, my team at The Open University...
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A hard day at the Met Office: The BBC look for a change in the weather
History & The Arts

A hard day at the Met Office: The BBC look for a change in the weather

...leadership of Robert FitzRoy, who had previously captained HMS Beagle on Darwin’s famous voyage. The organisation developed as part of the Ministry of Defence, with an important role to play in both world wars. Weather prediction helped the 1944 D-Day landings succeed, but equally armies have often waited for bad weather to attack, such as during the Ardennes...
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Why Michelle Obama's farewell is a masterclass in speech making
Society, Politics & Law

Why Michelle Obama's farewell is a masterclass in speech making

...leadership and power, and still do. But it’s also to do with taught expectations about content and delivery of great presentations. Great speeches are associated with explicit links to the bigger picture; they generally rely on grand references to history, and often serve as a call to arms. In some ways, Obama’s speech followed the same pattern. But she did it...
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