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Success and failure in healthcare: should regulation be simple or integrated?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Success and failure in healthcare: should regulation be simple or integrated?

...work. It would allow information sharing in the public interest. Simple regulation would also ensure that if a practitioner was unfit to carry out their healthcare duties they can be prevented from doing so, or concerns be raised. This would necessitate a register of healthcare practitioners. Yet these conditions mirror closely what already happens. The General Medical...
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Stuck in the middle of a pandemic: are international students migrants?
Society, Politics & Law

Stuck in the middle of a pandemic: are international students migrants?

...work in the retail and tourism sectors but now find themselves with either no jobs and income, or in the precarious position of having to work outside of the home. As university accommodation was shutting down everywhere some also lost access to housing. All these problems haunt their lives as students. Government regulations around minimum face-to-face attendance can no...
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Article 15 mins
Selling Empire: Further resources
History & The Arts

Selling Empire: Further resources

...Working Papers on Africa and Asia historical to contemporary Working Papers on Commodities and Empire Books and articles Anthony, Scott. Public Relations and the Making of Modern Britain: Stephen Tallents and the Birth of a Progressive Media Profession (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2013). Anthony, Scott. ‘Imperialism and Internationalism: The British...
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The Material World: On Chesil Beach (getting closer to Titan)
Science, Maths & Technology

The Material World: On Chesil Beach (getting closer to Titan)

...work in the laboratory, it seemed that the material on Titan was probably granular or grainy. Could it be Titan's version of sand or gravel, produced by the continued action of flowing liquid over the underlying bedrock - which, in the case of Titan, would be methane flowing over ice? He produced many sample surfaces in the laboratory but knew that natural processes on...
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The man behind Matilda – what Roald Dahl was really like
History & The Arts

The man behind Matilda – what Roald Dahl was really like

...Working for Love, which was released in 1989. Tessa’s “semi-autobiographical” book describes her childhood bitterness after all the family tragedies and her desperate longing for love. In a 2012 interview she declared that “daddy gave joy to millions of children. But I was dying inside” – accusing him of selfishness and egocentric behaviour. Dahl is also...
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Can you manage a supply chain?
Money & Business

Can you manage a supply chain?

...works in both ways. Demand increases generate precisely the same human behaviour, but now we have shortage of stock and huge upswings in ordering instead of over-supply. In fact, one of the biggest avoidable causes of the bullwhip effect is where sellers - retailers - mainly, decide to embark on promotions that deliberately increase demand in the short term. For many...
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Sporting women in the media
Health, Sports & Psychology

Sporting women in the media

...working in sport’ (McGinty-Minister, Whitehead and Swettenham (2023) and answer the following questions: What sort of behaviour do women report as experiencing at an interpersonal level? What reasons did women give for avoiding reporting sexism? As you listen to the audio and look at the poster, reflect on why gender is a contemporary issue and why it is of relevance to...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
What did Voltaire think about Buddhism?
History & The Arts

What did Voltaire think about Buddhism?

...works in Chinese condemning the “religion of Fo” (fo is the Chinese word for Buddha). Early reports on the Buddhism of Thailand came from delegations sent to the court of Siam by Louis XIV, delegations that included Jesuit priests. The term “Buddhism” would not appear in English until the early nineteenth century. The Jesuits who wrote the reports and the scholars...
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