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Inclusive education: knowing what we mean (Wales)
Education & Development

Inclusive education: knowing what we mean (Wales)

...health) has a cumulative deleterious effect on educational outcomes, though the interplay of different ‘disadvantage’ indicators is very complex and nuanced and different combinations of inhibitors have different effects (see DfE 2019). In line with this way of thinking, the study of inclusion should be concerned with understanding and confronting the broader issue of...
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Explainer: how do you read an election poll?
Society, Politics & Law

Explainer: how do you read an election poll?

...publication asked about 10m people whether Alfred Landon or Franklin D Roosevelt would win, and about 2.4m replied. That is way bigger than the average opinion poll. Their results showed Landon well in the lead, but in fact Roosevelt won by a landslide. The problem was that the Literary Digest had asked (mainly) just its own readers, who were far from typical of the US...
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How can Facebook decide who you really are?
Science, Maths & Technology

How can Facebook decide who you really are?

...public life. Kerala-born blogger Inji Pennu, who now lives in Florida, describes Facebook as: …a place where we could gather around with other women and tell the world, I do not want men to grope me while going to school, I do not want men to tell me what to do at offices, I do not want my parents to give me off in a wedding. In late July of 2015, a politician in Kerala...
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True stories of the 1975 EEC Referendum
Society, Politics & Law

True stories of the 1975 EEC Referendum

...public was asked? We've dug through the archives to find some stories from the 1975 EEC Referendum...The decision to call the referendum was taken by Prime Minister Harold Wilson - but Tony Benn was instrumental in persuading him There were many pressures on Harold Wilson to find a way to settle the question of EEC membership. His predecessor, Ted Heath, had taken the...
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What does the US election mean for Europe?
Society, Politics & Law

What does the US election mean for Europe?

...publication of its Global Strategy report, it has steadily embarked on being less of a global player in the course of the last three years. Pressured by Russian belligerence and unprecedented migration flows, the EU has slowly but perceptibly abandoned its ‘out-of-area’ commitments in favour of guarding its borders on land and at sea. An engaged Clinton presidency...
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Tales of Trump told in Trumpian tones: Michael Wolff's Fire And Fury
Society, Politics & Law

Tales of Trump told in Trumpian tones: Michael Wolff's Fire And Fury

...publication – a la the Spycatcher affair in Britain in the 1980s. Several questions have arisen since Fire and Fury’s release, particularly regarding the reliability of some of Wolff’s claims as well as the book’s ‘usefulness’: has it provided any new insights, has it merely helped the Trump administration’s war against the American media, and so on. My take...
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The Balakot Earthquake: Ten years on
Science, Maths & Technology

The Balakot Earthquake: Ten years on

...public service among the government departments or local elected representatives. They had more praise for the army, which played a high-profile role in the initial disaster response. Their cynicism about local officials is hardly surprising. The pressure of political patronage diverted aid away from the most needy, despite both acute need in the most affected areas and a...
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How to make the best of your digital badge
Education & Development

How to make the best of your digital badge

...Open Learning: The Journal of Open, Distance and e-Learning, 30(3), pp. 221–34. Taylor, M. (2017) ‘Good work: the Taylor review of modern working practices’, Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy, 11 July 2017. Available at: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/good-work-the-taylor-review-of-modern-working-practices (Accessed 16 November 2022)....
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