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Scotland’s ‘not proven’ verdict helps juries communicate their belief of guilt when lack of evidence fails to convict
Society, Politics & Law

Scotland’s ‘not proven’ verdict helps juries communicate their belief of guilt when lack of evidence fails to convict

...student Amanda Duffy was murdered after a night out with friends. In a landmark trial in 1992, there was only one suspect in the case, Francis Auld. Despite forensic evidence that could link Auld to Amanda’s death, he received a “not proven” verdict, which meant the jury deemed there was insufficient evidence to prove his guilt. Despite this acquittal, Amanda’s...
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Climate Change, Coastal Erosion and Flooding: The Thames Gateway and London
Society, Politics & Law

Climate Change, Coastal Erosion and Flooding: The Thames Gateway and London

...distribution of political power and economic resources between and within countries. Today’s economic and political inequalities thus help to shape future vulnerabilities to environmental change. If you are a student you can watch the film on the Environmental Studies Virtual Learning Environment, in an extended version of this article. More from Geography Matters...
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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

...student that is keen to learn will ask the most searching of questions. Parent governors often ask questions that some professionals will never think to ask, either out of “professional respect” for an individual’s office – particularly if they share the same professional field – or because they are afraid that the question may seem at worst too basic, or at...
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Can a space rock from Costa Rica reveal the origin of water on Earth?
Science, Maths & Technology

Can a space rock from Costa Rica reveal the origin of water on Earth?

...Student in The School of Physical Sciences, explores different types of meteorites which have landed across our planet...Fifty years ago, a meteorite crashed near the Murchison village in Victoria, Australia. What lay upon the ground was 100kg of dark scorched rock, emitting fumes akin to methylated spirits. It was identified as a very special type of meteorite, having...
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Phobos – an asteroid masquerading as a moon of Mars?
Science, Maths & Technology

Phobos – an asteroid masquerading as a moon of Mars?

...student in The School of Physical Sciences, looks at Phobos - one of Mars' moons and how space agencies are going to investigate its composition...Mars might be smaller than our own planet Earth, but it hosts two moons as opposed to one. These are Phobos and Deimos and are the only other moons in the inner Solar System, yet remarkedly little is known about them. The...
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Catalan resurgent: how a language has gone from ban to boom
Languages

Catalan resurgent: how a language has gone from ban to boom

...this emotion. After years of teaching Spanish in Queen’s University, Belfast, a language I value the more I teach it, last year I offered a course in Catalan for the first time. Standing in front of my students on that first day, I had to try hard to avoid tears.[The Conversation] This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article....
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Florence Nightingale on what makes a good nurse
Health, Sports & Psychology

Florence Nightingale on what makes a good nurse

...students, though theory is very helpful when carried out by practice). Theory without practice is ruinous to nurses. Then a good woman should be thorough. Thoroughness in a nurse is a matter of life and death to the patient. Or, rather, without it she is no nurse. Especially thoroughness in the unseen work. Do that well & the other will be done well to. Be as careful in...
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Learning How To Learn: Words from the Wise
Education & Development

Learning How To Learn: Words from the Wise

...students through, for example, forums and social media. Of course, this is good from a social viewpoint, but, as Confucius’s words make clear, it is also useful in terms of your studies. It is fitting to leave the last word to another great figure from history, Mahatma Gandhi, the twentieth-century Indian independence leader. This quotation is not accompanied by any...
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