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The fight for equal pay: Glasgow City Council, 2018
Society, Politics & Law

The fight for equal pay: Glasgow City Council, 2018

...Social Sciences qualifications. Context The 1970 Equal Pay Act prohibited less favourable treatment between men and women in terms of pay and conditions of employment. In 2020 the pay gap in the UK was 15.5%, meaning on average women were paid 84.5p for every £1 men earned. (ONS, 2020). In 2006 Glasgow City Council (GCC) introduced a Workforce Pay and Benefits Review...
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Can Space Technologies solve the Sustainable Development Goals?
Science, Maths & Technology

Can Space Technologies solve the Sustainable Development Goals?

...social sciences. I get the opportunity to learn all about how space technologies are used for astrobiology research, whilst also learning about how these technologies can improve lives on earth. I've learnt that the potentials of space technologies are immense. For example, remote sensors are being used by first responders to improve disaster search and rescue missions....
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Beth fedra i wneud am fy iechyd meddwl pan nad oes gennyf y cymorth sydd ei angen arnaf?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Beth fedra i wneud am fy iechyd meddwl pan nad oes gennyf y cymorth sydd ei angen arnaf?

...Social Support: Building Positive and Empowering Relationships, London: Jessica Kingsley. Mae’r adnodd hwn yn rhan o ‘Gasgliad Llesiant ac Iechyd Meddwl’ wedi ei greu gan y Brifysgol Agored yng Nghymru. Gallwch ddysgu mwy a dod o hyd i gyrsiau, erthyglau a gweithgareddau eraill ar dudalen hafan y casgliad. Rhowch gynnig ar gwrs AM DDIM Cymorth ychwanegol Tudalennau...
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How can we improve teaching about Islam?
Education & Development

How can we improve teaching about Islam?

...social and cultural mosaic or religions that have existed in the region most closely associated with Islam – and continue to do so today. How the arts can explain important connections So, what should educators do to improve this literacy? From my perspective, a fuller picture could be painted if identities were not to be solely defined through religion. That is,...
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Language on the move: Migrating literature and Zachary Richard’s Cajun tales
Languages

Language on the move: Migrating literature and Zachary Richard’s Cajun tales

...works concerning Cajun history by scholars of Cajun origin at the University of Louisiana in Lafayette, attention was drawn to the culture’s uniqueness and especially to the real events surrounding the expulsion of the Acadians. To counter untruthful and stereotypical depictions of the Cajuns, historians started debunking the Evangeline myth—to the profit of other...
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Explainer: What is autophagy?
Science, Maths & Technology

Explainer: What is autophagy?

...work? [A human cell treated with a compound which induces autophagy] Figure 1: A human cell treated with a compound which induces autophagy. Autophagosomes are visible as small bright green speckles. The general mechanisms of autophagy are thought to be highly similar in all eukaryotic organisms. Defective cell components are engulfed by a membrane, which wraps around the...
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Using data visualisation to track climate change
Nature & Environment

Using data visualisation to track climate change

...work of 16 experts and analysts from the German Development Institute (DIE), the African Centre for Technology Studies (ACTS) in Kenya, the Stockholm Environment Institute in Sweden, in cooperation with the UNFCCC secretariat, and supported by the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development, according to a statement from DIE last month (16 January). Visit...
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‘Citizen sensing’ and new forms of environmental monitoring
Society, Politics & Law

‘Citizen sensing’ and new forms of environmental monitoring

...challenge, however, is the need by experts and officials to recognise citizen sensing as a valuable and valid way to investigate environmental change and to engage in more open forms of knowledge-making. Kim Kullman is a Lecturer in Geography and works as a Block Lead on the new module ‘Environment and Society’ (DD213), which will be available for study in 2018....
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