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What do tests tell us?
Education & Development

What do tests tell us?

...based on? How helpful is it? International comparisons based on tests have to be treated with care. In the November 2013 PISA International tests taken by 15-year olds, Shanghai in China topped the table and Hong Kong came third. However, Shanghai and Hong Kong are affluent cities and make up only a small proportion of China’s population. Are they representative of...
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How did the referendum polls get it wrong - again?
Science, Maths & Technology

How did the referendum polls get it wrong - again?

...based on poll numbers... Meanwhile the subject matter of this referendum raised a particular challenge. General elections in the UK are primarily about left and right. The question is whether the government should be doing a little more or doing a little. The social division underlying this debate tends to be between the middle class and the working class. But this...
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What Brexit and Trump mean for Global Justice and International Development
Society, Politics & Law

What Brexit and Trump mean for Global Justice and International Development

...based on the view that there exist moral, legal and institutional obligations binding on all, independently of country and government. These universal obligations include the worth of individual freedom (protected through the universal application of human rights) and the worth of equality (protected through institutions of global justice). The ideal character of this...
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Leaving the EU means losing access to EU agencies - so why aren't we talking about it?
Society, Politics & Law

Leaving the EU means losing access to EU agencies - so why aren't we talking about it?

...based in Stockholm, the Agency for European Global Navigation Satellite Systems in Prague, and the European Chemicals Agency in Helsinki. These all deal with global concerns of high importance, so reduced UK involvement smacks of insularity and arrogance. Manifold benefits EU agencies cover many health, safety and security issues. Collectively they help to ensure the...
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Methods in Motion: Challenging the Narrative
Society, Politics & Law

Methods in Motion: Challenging the Narrative

...bases and Western-backed regional states. Iran’s main geopolitical rivals across the Persian Gulf, Saudi Arabia and the UAE, are key Western allies and beneficiaries of record-breaking arms contracts with Western powers. These states have invested vast sums of money in Washington-based think tanks and university departments to help promote their own agendas in the...
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LGBTQ youth and homelessness: We can all make a difference
Society, Politics & Law

LGBTQ youth and homelessness: We can all make a difference

...based research that has established that LGBTQ youth are at a significantly higher risk of homelessness (see for example Morton and colleagues’ 2018 paper). A recent estimate provided in the prestigious journal, Pediatrics, reported that between 20 and 40% of homeless youth are LGBTQ (when LGBTQ youth make up approximately 4 to 10% of the overall adolescent population)....
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The new politics of climate change
Nature & Environment

The new politics of climate change

...based on evidence. In this way, they could be viewed as a means to combat the problems of fake news and pseudoscientific and conspiracy thinking that is prevalent in modern politics. Assemblies are constituted by sortition, a process of randomly selecting a representative selection of citizen to participate. The process of citizen assemblies is fairly unknown in the UK...
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Anodising
Science, Maths & Technology

Anodising

...base metal, such as aluminium. Oxide provides protection from corrosion and wear, as well as a good surface finish for painting. Also used for decorative effect...[Images to demonstrate 'Anodising' - see article ] Principle of anodising Aluminium and its alloys have some inherent resistance to atmospheric corrosion due to the presence of a very thin protective oxide film...
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