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Why it is a huge mistake to get rid of parent governors on school boards
Society, Politics & Law

Why it is a huge mistake to get rid of parent governors on school boards

...account – will be done by “professionals”. The proposals to remove the requirement to have elected parent governors on boards risks alienating the very communities whose interests the board purports to represent. It is a grave error of judgement on the part of the government. The role of parent governors Defining what elected parents do for a board is not easy, but...
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Studying design at The Open University: a rewarding journey
Science, Maths & Technology

Studying design at The Open University: a rewarding journey

...account of studying design at The Open University (OU). While studying with us, they also played a key role in co-designing the new Bachelor of Design (BDes) qualification during their Virtual Internship. I am certain one of the proudest moments in their internship was planning this video, from writing the storyboard and script to recording the video in the OU studio....
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If Infinity Wars had peer review instead of script editors
Science, Maths & Technology

If Infinity Wars had peer review instead of script editors

...account how advances in technology offset expansions in population). Thus, his justification to vanquish fifty percent of life from the Universe is deeply flawed. If the Infinity Stones grant the power to eliminate life with the snap of the fingers, why didn’t Thanos use this power to expand the available resources in the Universe to accommodate the growing population?...
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Three weeks in June and one night in November
Society, Politics & Law

Three weeks in June and one night in November

...accounts, prone to lengthy tangential diversions and Gothic imagery. Both occupy a weird space between unsettling truths and darkly sprawling nightmares. Curtis’s HyperNormalisation plots the period from the mid-1970s to the present day and reminds us that the phenomenon of post-truth politics is not new. His impressionistic account has a common reprise – that we have...
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Article 10 mins
Financial statement analysis and interpretation
Money & Business

Financial statement analysis and interpretation

...accounting...Financial statement analysis and interpretation: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: explain why is it important to analyse and interpret financial statements explain how different stakeholder groups might be interested in different ratios carry out financial statement analysis using a number of key techniques interpret...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Does handing a company on to the children work?
Money & Business

Does handing a company on to the children work?

...account for over half of medium-sized firms in the manufacturing sector. In particular, dynastic family firms – that is, where the founding family owns a controlling share and have appointed a second-generation (or later) family member as the CEO – account for a quarter of these firms. Since supporting such firms as the “backbone of the economy” is politically...
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Citational politics
Education & Development

Citational politics

...account of every text we engage with, or reference all of those whose ideas have propelled us along a particular line of flight. We can never acknowledge in their fullness all the allusions, resonances and hauntings that stride through our work. Thus, citation is a deliberate political act – it is a decision to accept particular authors as foundational to our work, or...
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Article 20 mins
Negotiating trade deals
Money & Business

Negotiating trade deals

...are negotiated without democratic scrutiny or accountability. Just as worrying, these deals are reached by unelected figures, further putting into question their ability to be publicly debated and influenced. Alvaro Guzman Bastida discusses these concerns in his article for Al Jazeera America “History’s largest trade agreements are being negotiated in secret”....
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