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Social mobility isn’t just about 18-year-olds: adults need life chances too
Society, Politics & Law

Social mobility isn’t just about 18-year-olds: adults need life chances too

...Statistics Agency demonstrates that the number of students enrolling for UK part-time higher education decreased by 6% between the 2013-14 and 2014-15 academic years. The proportion of undergraduates studying part-time continues to fall, and is now down to 25% of the total. This dramatic decline is acutely relevant to Cameron’s pledge: part-timers are the most...
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Article 10 mins
How do Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic students experience their undergraduate dissertation module?
Education & Development

How do Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic students experience their undergraduate dissertation module?

...Statistics Agency [HESA], 2023). This awarding gap remains even when prior qualifications are accounted for (see, for example, Richardson et al., 2015). So it’s not because Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic students are not sufficiently qualified when they start their degree. Which begs the question: What is happening at university that contributes to Black, Asian and...
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Why do call centre staff use your name all the time, Chris?
Money & Business

Why do call centre staff use your name all the time, Chris?

...statistical analysis found that despite agents being trained in and encouraged to use a range of different linguistic strategies to create rapport with the customer, one particular way was clearly preferred over others: using the customer’s name. In one call, an agent used the customer’s name five times in a relatively short interaction of just a few minutes: “Hi,...
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Emotions and emotional disorders
Health, Sports & Psychology

Emotions and emotional disorders

...statistics compiled by the Government show that in England in 2007, 16.2% (around 1 in 6) of 7325 adults between the ages of 16 and 64 years met the clinical diagnostic criteria for at least one emotional disorder (or common mental disorder; McManus et al., 2009). Of these, depression and anxiety (or a mix of the two, called ‘mixed anxiety and depression’ or MAD) were...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Supply chain sustainability
Money & Business

Supply chain sustainability

...statistics from 2016. Figure 3 shows the volume of freight moved each year. (A ‘tonne kilometre’ is the unit representing one tonne moved one kilometre, taking into account both weight and distance. So, 1 tonne moved 50 kilometres is the same as 50 tonnes moved 1 kilometre in this chart.) The chart shows that 76% of the freight moved in the UK was by road, and that...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Lisa Sargood - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Lisa Sargood - Earth in Vision

...statistics. So if you’re not giving a complete and honest picture of the devastation, or even the success stories, where a success has been… strides are being made, then the epic pictures and the glorious pictures just aren’t enough on their own to convince people to either care more or do more. According to the Living Planet Index, world wildlife has declined by...
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Rugby: A game of risk and reward
Health, Sports & Psychology

Rugby: A game of risk and reward

...statistics were informative as a qualitative researcher I wanted to explore this risk through people’s thoughts, feelings and emotions. In other words the real stories of the risks of rugby. George Robinson’s Story In July 2015 an English school boy, George Robinson (aged 17) suffered a transection of his spinal cord whilst playing rugby for his school in Cape Town....
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Article 10 mins
Should Houston prepare for more Hurricanes like Harvey?
Nature & Environment

Should Houston prepare for more Hurricanes like Harvey?

...statistical confidence associated with this statement. What that means is that this observed increase in hurricane frequency is more likely than not linked with climate change, but the increase may also be linked to decadal variability. Has Harvey been enhanced by climate change? Unlike other types of extreme weather such as heatwaves, the influence of climate change on...
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