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EU Referendum - Economy
Society, Politics & Law

EU Referendum - Economy

...institutions with large interests in Britain have warned that they and their customers might suffer from a Brexit, including Barclays and the world’s biggest fund manager BlackRock. But a report by Boris Johnson’s economic adviser Gerard Lyons suggests that the City of London – and the country – can now be stronger outside the EU, a verdict which helped to put the...
Influence of temperament
Education & Development

Influence of temperament

...et al., 1989, p. 510) As an illustration of this notion of the goodness of fit between the child’s temperament and parental behaviour Lerner et al. (1989) discussed some of the evidence concerning temperament and maternal employment outside the home. Of course a wide variety of social and economic pressures will be influencing the decision to work outside the home....
Crimes of the powerful
Society, Politics & Law

Crimes of the powerful

...institutional racism, cultural vandalism. Family violence Forms of physical or mental violence in the life cycle of family members: it can include physical abuse and neglect of children, partner domestic violence, or elder abuse. Although family violence is in some ways a different order of violence than other crimes of the powerful, it is included here because its...
Level 3: Advanced 2 hrs
Literacy, social justice and inclusive practice
Education & Development

Literacy, social justice and inclusive practice

...Institute for Statistics, 2014) Figure 1 World youth literacy map However, we also noted that, as indicated by Leach (2014), developing literacy for all in an empowering way and for social betterment is not a straightforward, unproblematic process. Global and local literacy development is mediated by a number of different factors such as class, gender, social status, home...
Leadership for inclusion: thinking it through
Education & Development

Leadership for inclusion: thinking it through

...institutional responses to enacting leadership that support the involvement of all. Recognising the calls for collaboration and ongoing development of practice, students will be supported to explore the experiences of practitioners, managers and learners working alongside others and how they might develop their own capacity in this regard. The course will look towards...
Rights and justice in international relations
Society, Politics & Law

Rights and justice in international relations

...institution in acting to protect, enable and indeed to foster rights claims, the idea of moral rights also defines the fundamental inviolability of persons who need to be protected against state interference. So, the state can be seen in two, contradictory, guises – as both the protector of rights and as the body claiming to override individual rights...Rights and...
Wales and rugby
Society, Politics & Law

Wales and rugby

...institutions and culture, has grown considerably. In 1982 Sianel Pedwar Cymru (S4C), the Welsh fourth television channel, came into existence, the Millennium Stadium opened in 1999 and the Wales Millennium Centre (where the Welsh National Opera is based) in 2004, and the Encyclopaedia of Wales was published in 2007. Crucially, the first members of the National Assembly...
How do Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic students experience their undergraduate dissertation module?
Education & Development

How do Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic students experience their undergraduate dissertation module?

...et al., 2020). Furthermore, while 79% of White students obtained a first or a second upper class degree in 2021/22, only 60% of Black students and 70% of Asian students did so (Higher Education Statistics Agency [HESA], 2023). This awarding gap remains even when prior qualifications are accounted for (see, for example, Richardson et al., 2015). So it’s not because...