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The drive to improve patient safety in the NHS in England
Health, Sports & Psychology

The drive to improve patient safety in the NHS in England

...become central concerns within the NHS policy in England. The same is true in many other healthcare systems. In 2013, the National Advisory Group on the Safety of Patients in England, delivered its report ‘A promise to Learn – a commitment to act’. The Advisory Group was led by the Dr Don Berwick, a renowned doctor and campaigner for improved safety and quality from...
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Wangari Maathai: standing up for women and the environment
Nature & Environment

Wangari Maathai: standing up for women and the environment

...becoming bankrupt, family break-up, and even losing her personal freedom by going to jail. Yet she seems to have come out with no bitterness and resumed her peaceful struggle, eventually reaching greater heights, including government minister when democratic reforms came. She made environmental issues not only a concern of Kenya’s but also Africa’s concern, through...
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Achieving public dialogue
Science, Maths & Technology

Achieving public dialogue

...becoming more 'active' in the direction of science practice by 'two-way' interactions, with dialogue taking place between science and some part of 'the public'...There are a wide range of interactions between 'science' and 'the public'. Examples range from visiting a museum, or indulging in a science-related hobby, to reading a newspaper article about a breakthrough in...
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Level 3: Advanced 16 hrs
Approaching poetry
History & The Arts

Approaching poetry

...becomes: listening to music or looking at paintings with someone who can tell us a little about what we hear or see – or what we‘re reading – is one way of increasing our understanding and pleasure. That may mean learning something about the people who produced the writing, music, painting that we are interested in, and why they produced it. But it may also mean...
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Level 2: Intermediate 20 hrs
Equity – law and idea
Society, Politics & Law

Equity – law and idea

...Student published during the first quarter of the sixteenth century. Contingent upon this drive in the early modern period for a new rationality and certainty more wedded to secular rather than religious aims, was that justice would be forged, for better or worse, on a basis of existing and definable rules and doctrines. As a consequence this meant justice was just as...
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Level 2: Intermediate 14 hrs
Ahead of Super Tuesday, what have we learned about the candidates?
Society, Politics & Law

Ahead of Super Tuesday, what have we learned about the candidates?

...become unstoppable. 3. Cruz’s scorched earth strategy backfired badly Since entering the presidential race, Ted Cruz has made clear that he will say or do anything to get conservative support. To boost conservative turnout in Iowa, Cruz’s campaign sent out deceptively official-looking mailers that implied the recipients had broken the law by failing to vote in past...
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Rio 2016: A Caster Semenya reading list
Health, Sports & Psychology

Rio 2016: A Caster Semenya reading list

...becomes an ethical question. Watch the Chair of International Association of Athletics Federations' Ethics Board, Michael Beloff, discussing hyperandrogyny at the International Bar Assocation's Vimeo channel Lindsay Parks Pieper, author of the book Sex Testing, says Semenya's treatment is typical of how the IOC treats people who don't fit into comfortable categories: Once...
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Coping on the Coast: moral economies and liminality at the heart of things that matter
Society, Politics & Law

Coping on the Coast: moral economies and liminality at the heart of things that matter

...become more difficult and dangerous. They reported that onshore crop yields of bananas, coconuts, nutmeg and cloves were being affected by higher temperatures and unpredictable changes in the monsoon rain patterns. Storms and tidal surges were becoming more severe, even as rainfall declined. Fishers now had to travel further out to sea yet were still catching less fish....
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