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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’

...education and more. As adults we can focus more on what we are good at (or enjoy), and we can fairly easily accept that most of us will never be an Olympian or the next Nobel Prize winner for Chemistry. However, children are expected to do a wide range of things, and can find ‘failure’ really hard, at school and outside of school. Your child may have terrible ‘ball...
Should we read John Locke today?
Society, Politics & Law

Should we read John Locke today?

...educator and political writer. Over the course of an eventful life he lived through the English Civil Wars, the violent overthrows of two kings (Charles I and James II) and the rapid expansion of English colonialism and slave-trading across the Atlantic. As well as producing the foundations of a new philosophical approach to knowledge based on experience (later called...
African Caribbean religions and the problem of representation
History & The Arts

African Caribbean religions and the problem of representation

...education and a form of primitivism, to Comte’s fetishism represented the ‘positive’ starting point of all developments for humankind the ‘childhood of humankind’ as he put it (Böhme, 2014). Edward B. Tylor (1871) and Émile Durkheim (1912/1915) in their works similarly rejected Hume’s thesis of fetishism as the foundation of all religions and replaced the...
Finding your way after the death of a significant person
Health, Sports & Psychology

Finding your way after the death of a significant person

...Education and Language Studies faculty, focusing on bereavement within racially minoritised groups, I’ve had the privilege of listening to many personal stories of loss, resilience and ‘healing’. The people behind these stories are diverse in their heritage, traditions, upbringing and generally how they deal with loss. Through those stories, I’ve learned a few key...
Film as a Historical Source
Health, Sports & Psychology

Film as a Historical Source

...educational projects of many sorts, in schools, colleges, local history societies, evening classes and universities are discovering new material and making it available in digital format via the Internet or on DVD. But as with all types of primary historical source material, the evidence does not “speak for itself”. It requires historical interpretation in order to...
Owen's Law: the case for written allergen information in every food business
Health, Sports & Psychology

Owen's Law: the case for written allergen information in every food business

...Education and process together are what make the difference. Businesses that get this right are not just safer — they are more welcoming, more trusted, and better placed to serve every customer who walks through the door. Transcript Reflect and share: Transparency is at the heart of inclusive dining. If you have a food allergy or care for someone who does: what does...
A brief history of Harlem
Society, Politics & Law

A brief history of Harlem

...education and employment issues. [Harlem riots 1964] Harlem riots, 1964 The frustrations often found more violent outlets, too. In 1935 a (false) rumour that the police had killed a shoplifter sparked a riot which saw 600 stores looted and left three dead; in 1943, the shooting of a black soldier by a policeman caused a second outbreak of rioting - this time claiming six...
Nursing associate career pathways - not just the ‘top-up’
Health, Sports & Psychology

Nursing associate career pathways - not just the ‘top-up’

...education there are increasing opportunities for band 4 NAs to progress without requiring the degree Transfer to Nursing (top-up) programme to be a registered nurse. You may be interested in Sam’s story below where she chose to pursue a leadership related degree, now working in a band 6 role with potential to progress further. Many people do not wish to complete their...