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The vulnerability of refugees and asylum seekers to modern slavery
Society, Politics & Law

The vulnerability of refugees and asylum seekers to modern slavery

...work conditions or falling victim to traffickers who promise better opportunities. In some regions, weak law enforcement and corruption can exacerbate the risks of exploitation and modern slavery, as authorities may be complicit or ineffective in protecting vulnerable populations. The trauma experienced by refugees and asylum seekers from conflict, persecution and...
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Scotland's gold trail
Nature & Environment

Scotland's gold trail

...work below. Tyndrum The small village of Tyndrum, or to use its Gaelic name, Taigh an Droma, is not a place that would rank highly on any list of gold mining operations. Arguably it would not feature on many lists, and it has long been a place that has tended to be overlooked. For many years now, its main claim to fame has largely been its location on the main Glasgow to...
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Merry microbes: how might festive feasting affect your gut microbiota?
Science, Maths & Technology

Merry microbes: how might festive feasting affect your gut microbiota?

...work, keeping themselves to themselves and keeping each other in check. This stable community typically remains unchanged throughout our lives, being shaped by our long-term diets or disruption from infections or antibiotic treatments. However, their numbers and diversity do change quickly and temporarily, immediately after we have eaten. For example, microbes that prefer...
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How to write to a lover
History & The Arts

How to write to a lover

...work at a print shop and how he wanted to go to America someday. We exchanged swear words in British and American, words for undergarments and body parts. What I wrote to Nick was more of a prose-poem, a few lines about how surprised I was that he’d used the word ‘penultimate’ twice. A few months later, I met Guillaume, a blue-eyed Parisian. He knew little English....
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Teaching equality: unconscious bias in education
Education & Development

Teaching equality: unconscious bias in education

...working class white males. However, this disadvantage is not reflected in economic, health and employment outcomes of this cohort as they grow up. The methodology was also interesting: the study collected data from a recruited representative sample. It is significant that the Department for Education chooses not to use and report on data about progress against ethnicity...
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Syria: who's involved, and what do they want?
Society, Politics & Law

Syria: who's involved, and what do they want?

...working with Russia and Turkey to establish de-escalation zones in Syria, but recent Israeli air strikes and the looming threat of Western action against Assad bring in the very real spectre of direct clashes – with Iran, Hezbollah, Syria and Russia on one side, and Western and Israeli forces on the other. Turkey Alpaslan Ozerdem, Coventry University At the end of their...
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Introduction to differentiation
Science, Maths & Technology

Introduction to differentiation

...work with situations where a quantity is continuously changing and its rate of change isn’t necessarily constant. As a simple example, imagine a man walking along a straight path, as shown in Figure 1. His displacement from his starting point changes continuously as he walks. The rate of change of displacement is called velocity. [Described image] Figure 1 A man’s...
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Level 1: Introductory 18 hrs
Migration
Science, Maths & Technology

Migration

...working at extremes they can endure altitudes and very low oxygen levels. Well, Lucy returned to Mongolia in July to retrieve heart rate monitors which had been fitted to 30 of the geese last year, and she's with me now. So before we talk about the geese themselves and the heart rate monitor work, let's talk about Mongolia, what sort of landscape were you working in,...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs