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Global challenges in practice: designing a development intervention
Money & Business

Global challenges in practice: designing a development intervention

...institutional failure. Most meso-level interventions will be targeted at state institutions and are thus just as ideologically and politically coloured as macro-level interventions. Debates tend to focus on the appropriate role of the government in development; or whether it is best to have a minimal state, or a state that is sufficiently large to be efficient and to...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Introducing healthcare improvement
Health, Sports & Psychology

Introducing healthcare improvement

...et al., 2013) about integrated care quality improvement pilots. Integrated care broadly means the capacity for different parts of an organisation (departments or staff groups) to work together to offer good quality care. It also includes the capacity for healthcare professionals to work with social care professionals to offer a joined-up service. This research brief looks...
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Level 3: Advanced 3 hrs
Voters might not love Europe - but that doesn't mean they'll leave
Society, Politics & Law

Voters might not love Europe - but that doesn't mean they'll leave

...institution. Nevertheless, when these very same respondents were asked whether they wanted Britain to “continue” to be a member of the EU or to “withdraw”, just 30% said “withdraw”. No less than 60% said Britain should maintain its membership. Evidently there is something that persuades voters that scepticism about the EU is not necessarily sufficient reason...
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Saving capitalists from themselves?
Society, Politics & Law

Saving capitalists from themselves?

...institutions are run by people who promote this transfer of wealth to the 1%. On 19 December, Christine Lagarde, Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), was found guilty as French finance minister in 2007 of “negligence with public money” in approving a €400 million payout of taxpayers’ money to controversial French businessman Bernard Tapie,...
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Free online courses for refugees
Society, Politics & Law

Free online courses for refugees

...institutions whose work is at risk or compromised. Kiron offers free online learning opportunities to refugees and underserved communities. Learning Equality supports the creation, adaptation and distribution of open educational resources - browse resources on the Kolibri platform. UCAS Student Finance guidance for refugees and asylum seekers. If you're a refugee or...
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Half of climate safety level has gone - Climate News Network
Nature & Environment

Half of climate safety level has gone - Climate News Network

...Institute for Space Studies. He and his colleagues say the ice melting around Greenland and Antarctica will cause sea level rises much faster than mainstream predictions suggest, by several metres this century. This will add to a process which they say has already begun, accelerating the melting of the undersides of Antarctic glaciers and ice shelves. Another consequence,...
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Article 10 mins
Billions are spent on educational technology, but we don’t know if it works
Education & Development

Billions are spent on educational technology, but we don’t know if it works

...institutional frameworks to enforce any of the standards remains to be seen. Countries will need to select standards that suit both their economic and educational agendas. An important shift is needed so that schools can strategically select EdTech they know will help children’s learning. This article was originally published in The Conversation. Read the original...
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Methods in Motion: Acknowledging the active participant
Health, Sports & Psychology

Methods in Motion: Acknowledging the active participant

...institutional contexts. For instance, it is standard ethical practice in research to explain that there is an option not to answer questions, yet that 'permission' may not be ‘heard’ by the participant. An interviewee, like an interviewer, is always doing more than one thing – simultaneously acting and reacting, agreeing and distancing, self-monitoring and editing....
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