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Systems Practice case study - The CEO
Money & Business

Systems Practice case study - The CEO

...change. We needed new staff badly. We are a small consultancy firm in a specialised niche market and we had taken on more work than we could cope with. Most of us felt exhausted and burnt out, despite being excited by what we were doing. We also had ambitions to move into a new and important market sector and needed to build our capacity to do it. Initial recruitment...
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Pick a side and make a difference: Why you should vote this Thursday
Society, Politics & Law

Pick a side and make a difference: Why you should vote this Thursday

...change the outcome of the election...[A giant ballot box placed in Bristol promoting participation in the 2014 European Elections] You may have missed it but there’s a General Election taking place in the UK on June 8th. Now, it is not my intention to tell you how to vote. I’ve previously suggested that we might want to think about a more compassionate politics, and...
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Challenge: Make paper and ink
Science, Maths & Technology

Challenge: Make paper and ink

...change the colours. For example, logwood creates a blood red solution, although it will change to blue in alkaline solutions and to yellow-orange in highly acidic solutions. Finally, the scientists used a range of coloured inks on our Rough Science paper. They made brushes out of Ellen's hair and used Acacia seed pods as ink pens. Find out more Paper Handmade Paper - from...
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The importance of dignity and tailored support for poverty reduction
Health, Sports & Psychology

The importance of dignity and tailored support for poverty reduction

...change. This article explores why cash alone isn’t enough and how respectful, tailored support can help people overcome poverty...There are many definitions of poverty, yet at the heart of all of them lies the lack of adequate income to meet essential needs. It is therefore no surprise that poverty reduction policies often focus on providing poor people with cash, often...
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Children and ethnicity
Education & Development

Children and ethnicity

...change over time. What emerges as an important way for people to organize themselves in one period, whether that be skin colour or religion, may turn out to have little significance in another. Particular ethnic groups therefore tend to emerge and change over time as a consequence of particular social and political developments. There are two common misconceptions about...
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The awarding gap at The Open University
Education & Development

The awarding gap at The Open University

...changes and influences have further increased the national and international focus on race and equality, with the tragic death of George Floyd in the summer of 2020 and the subsequent re-focus on the Black Lives Matter movement (BLM). Arguably, BLM has served to profile the issues and has created a further window of opportunity to push for real and systemic change. Note:...
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London inside out
Society, Politics & Law

London inside out

...changing rather than eternal. And nothing that follows is meant to gainsay that. What I should like to explore about this imagination of place held by so many Londoners, however, is how it might be broadened out. First of all this is an internal, indeed internalised, view of the city. It is about hospitality, about those who come to 'us', about the strangers within the...
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Hip Hop, Transculturation and Ethnography in Delhi
Education & Development

Hip Hop, Transculturation and Ethnography in Delhi

...Chang, 2005; Chalfant, 2006). The Bronx represents a universal myth that can be used by global hip hop practitioners to imagine old school authenticity in their local contexts. The two terms ‘hip’ and ‘hop’ are themselves important words for the practitioners’ understanding of the culture. One of the most famous ambassadors of hip hop, the self-proclaimed teacha...
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