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What's the problem with the government's plans for our schools?
Education & Development

What's the problem with the government's plans for our schools?

...resource and statutory powers of local authorities, not least in the areas of school planning. This led the Local Government Association (LGA) to urge the government to expand academy schools to meet demand for school places, or else to give back powers to councils to open new state-maintained schools, something they currently are not permitted to do. Patchy solutions to...
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Nuclear transboundary consultations are a test for public participation and transparency across Europe
Nature & Environment

Nuclear transboundary consultations are a test for public participation and transparency across Europe

...resources needed for decommissioning of outdated reactors, governments inside and outside the EU, often pushed by the nuclear industry’s lobbyists, choose to extend the lifetime of nuclear reactors beyond the expiration date of their licences. OF BELGIUM'S SEVEN NUCLEAR UNITS, THREE (DOEL 1 AND 2 AND TIHANGE 1) HAVE BEEN GRANTED 10-YEAR LIFE EXTENSIONS. THIS MOVE HAS...
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Euro 2020: Will England's ruthless academy system show its value?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Euro 2020: Will England's ruthless academy system show its value?

...England player that starts in the Euro 2020 Championships represents the product of an increasingly sophisticated and highly resourced talent development system. There will be many however who argue these players are just the ones who have emerged relatively unscathed from a system that is controlled by the often ruthless business decisions of professional football clubs....
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Can science make you a better leader?
Money & Business

Can science make you a better leader?

...resources, then generally the first thing to be sacrificed was a focus on purpose and ethics. As one leader in a central government department said: “When you work really, really hard and things get stressed, you focus on the task rather than on the individual.” Another constraint faced by organisations is the difficulty of creating and embedding a single, clear,...
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Homeland, Carrie and how mental health is portrayed on-screen
Health, Sports & Psychology

Homeland, Carrie and how mental health is portrayed on-screen

...resources as though other law enforcement officials could not deal with the matter. Later, she is seen jeopardising another operation such that she needed to be shot in the arm to be stopped. These themes of dangerousness, incompetence or unpredictability illustrate the narrative choices in order to, in Claire Wilson’s words, “signal mental illness in a character …...
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How emoji are changing the shape of everyday English
Languages

How emoji are changing the shape of everyday English

...resources available to you in the best way you can. It’s this that results in the ‘hidden meanings’ that articles in the popular press delight in exposing to their readers, when they pruriently reveal that, for instance, ‘the snapping camera can be used by someone looking for sexting to be taken to the next level’. In fact, examples such as this are just a...
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COP26 Glasgow and questions of environmental and social justice
Society, Politics & Law

COP26 Glasgow and questions of environmental and social justice

...resources including income, wealth, education, health and environmental surroundings. The poorest areas have experienced a more severe and faster rate of decline in local environmental quality than less deprived areas, with the gap between the indicators of litter, fly-tipping and graffiti widening between the poorest and most affluent (keepscotlandbeautiful.org). Thus,...
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The Peace Dividend: why Good Friday Agreement matters to us and Earth
Society, Politics & Law

The Peace Dividend: why Good Friday Agreement matters to us and Earth

...resources exploring why the Good Friday Agreement is relevant to our lives 25 years since its signing. The Peace Dividend - and its interpretations 2023 will bring much political reflection to the North of Ireland. It is easy in this 25th anniversary year of the Good Friday Agreement (GFA) for this reflection to assume the form of platitudes, focusing on the contributions...
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