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What is a transformation process? The one minute guide
Money & Business

What is a transformation process? The one minute guide

...CC-BY-NC-ND Tillamook cheese factory by Kristina D.C. Hoeppner CC-BY-SA Hahnemann Hospital and Homœopathic Dispensaries by Wellcome Library CC-BY woodworking by conespider CC-BY-NC-ND delivery people by Garry Knight CC-BY checkout lane by Random Retail CC-BY lockers by nachans CC-BY gas meters by Lisa Padilla CC-BY fitness class by Nottingham Trent University CC-BY-NC-ND...
The world's busiest railway - Mumbai, India and rail
Science, Maths & Technology

The world's busiest railway - Mumbai, India and rail

...class – the office workers, teachers and professionals who raise their families in the suburbs but rely on the mega city of Mumbai for work. They are the commuters cramming themselves onto Mumbai’s crowded suburban trains, making more than 2.5 billion journeys per year. The trains are busy, hot and the city’s transport network is tested to its very limits daily. The...
Embedding mental wellbeing in higher education through inclusive curricula and pedagogy
Education & Development

Embedding mental wellbeing in higher education through inclusive curricula and pedagogy

...de-stressing solution There are many interventions in place to support students experiencing mental health issues, and there is an increasing number of interventions designed to promote wellbeing or prevent mental health crises. However, the majority of these interventions are therapeutic in nature, encouraging students to take part in practices such as mindfulness or...
Why did poorer people vote to leave the European Union?
Society, Politics & Law

Why did poorer people vote to leave the European Union?

...class and also more likely to express a great deal of interest in politics. Of course some of this group were for staying in the EU. They were more likely to think leaving would hurt the economy (and reduce British influence) and some of them will have thought lower immigration would be damaging. Nevertheless, before the campaign got going, the issue of immigration was...
Learning through spoken interaction
Education & Development

Learning through spoken interaction

...class are: - Understand or get clarification - Ask and answer questions - Make suggestions - Explain reasons. Understanding and asking for clarification A great deal of learning is done through listening to a teacher or other students. This provides two challenges for learners. They either need to fully understand or They need to be able to ask questions to understand....
Section 2: Red Clydeside and Glasgow 1919: Setting the Context
Society, Politics & Law

Section 2: Red Clydeside and Glasgow 1919: Setting the Context

...class The growth and spread of trade union organisation By the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the Clydeside region was one of the most significant industrial centres in the entire UK. Its factories, engineering plants and shipyards had been instrumental in fuelling the expansion of the Empire during the second half of the nineteenth century. With the onset...
Review: Bisexuality: Identities, Politics and Theories by Surya Monro
Society, Politics & Law

Review: Bisexuality: Identities, Politics and Theories by Surya Monro

...class and access to the community. As Monro explains: ‘It is important to avoid developing a hierarchy of oppression when analysing patterns of inequality and privilege because to do so undermines the possibilities of positive collaborations which support diversity and equality’; intersectionality is identified as the route to progress in this respect. It also gives...
‘Social Murder’: the realities of ‘Better Regulation’ in Contemporary Britain
Society, Politics & Law

‘Social Murder’: the realities of ‘Better Regulation’ in Contemporary Britain

...Class in England. ‘Social murder’ refers to the systematic and routine killing of workers and citizens in the horror of the emergence of industrial capitalism. It was these conditions which forced the struggle for laws to regulate business and to mitigate much of their profit-driven, harmful effects. And so it is no coincidence that through inter- and intra-class...