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What's life like for Jordan's LGBTQ community?
Society, Politics & Law

What's life like for Jordan's LGBTQ community?

...international community rather than Jordan, of course, but it remains to be seen what effects, if any, his recommendations and policies on ending violence towards LGBT people will have in his home nation. *Names have been changed to protect the privacy of individuals contributing to this story. This article was originally published on Global Voices under a CC-BY licence...
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Should we educate prisoners?
Society, Politics & Law

Should we educate prisoners?

...course (equivalent to ‘A’ level) in 2014/15, with none participating at Level 4 which is equivalent to first-year undergraduate or above (MoJ, Unlocking Potential, 2016). Recognition of the importance of education in prisons appears to have been lost (Coates, 2016). Considering that most prisoners will eventually be released back into the community at some point,...
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Climate change – How awareness is prevented through media sanitation
Nature & Environment

Climate change – How awareness is prevented through media sanitation

...course that the subjects of these media representations, animals and plants are threatened in their existence by humans through the exploitation of natural and geological resources. And they stand no chance against humans. Help others see the truth. The system is stacked in favour of corporations continuing in their exploitation of environmental resources and our...
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Autumn Statement 2016: Tories shift to growth strategy in an Ed Balls-style pirouette
Society, Politics & Law

Autumn Statement 2016: Tories shift to growth strategy in an Ed Balls-style pirouette

...course, economists’ code for the higher pay which voters – and the Chancellor’s party – expect to gain when Brexit uncertainty settles. If that promise secures the government’s re-election by 2020, Ed Balls could well claim to be the ghostwriter denied a royalty. [The Conversation]This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original...
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Exomoons: astronomers report first ever discovery
Science, Maths & Technology

Exomoons: astronomers report first ever discovery

...course of 40 hours. After analysing their data, they found that the planet transit began 77.8 minutes earlier than predicted. This is interpreted as a so-called transit timing variation, caused by an unaccounted for gravitational tug on the planet by an unseen body. The same technique has previously been employed to determine the masses of planets in systems with multiple...
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Vikings - just misunderstood?
History & The Arts

Vikings - just misunderstood?

...course the vikings were more than just bloodthirsty pirates: they were also settlers, landholders, farmers, politicians, and merchants. The connections between technology, urban trading, and international economics which have come to define modern living are nothing new. Back in the first millennium AD, the Vikings were experts at exploring these very issues. Between the...
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Managing Relationships and Work
Health, Sports & Psychology

Managing Relationships and Work

...courses to manage and maintain healthy and sustaining professional relationships with your colleagues. ...Workplace relationships A relationship is the connection or association between two things or people. Key psychological aspects of a ‘good’ relationship are mutual trust, respect, commitment and individual responsibility. A good relationship meets the needs of...
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Betty Luckham: celebrating the activism of a pioneering Windrush woman
History & The Arts

Betty Luckham: celebrating the activism of a pioneering Windrush woman

...course of justice Inerasable as my scars and fate. I am here a woman ... with all my lives strung out like beads before me It isn’t privilege or pity that I seek It isn’t reverence or safety quick happiness or purity but the power to be what I am/ a woman charting my own futures/ a woman holding my beads in my hand [A photograph of a woman holding a bunch of flowers]...
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