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Nature & Environment

COP26 and the Glasgow Pact...one small step

...systems. International Aviation Climate Ambition Coalition seeks to play its part in limiting global heating to 1.5°C (which in practice means decarbonising jet fuel). France, Germany, the UK, the USA, and the EU announced a groundbreaking international Just Transition Partnership to help wean South Africa off its coal-fired electricity system towards renewables. The...

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Health, Sports & Psychology

Five things you might like to know about Recovery Colleges

...system for referrals. Although the college is designed for people with lived and professional experience of mental health services, we operate the same as any adult learning centre would. Your local team may recommend us to you but they cannot refer. We pride ourselves in treating everyone as students and you will have equality with all students at the college regardless...

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Society, Politics & Law

Tackling juror trauma and stress

...system has been accused of failing in its duty of care for jurors. How can we tackle juror trauma? The question of supporting jurors to cope with the distressing nature of jury duty is not simple and significant changes and improvements to services are likely to take time. However, strategies can focus on three broad domains; pre-trial, concurrent to the case, and...

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Society, Politics & Law

Rwanda: an open and shut case?

...system had significant deficiencies; for example, a shortage of interpreters for those who did not speak French or English. Moreover, members of the refugee status determination committee, it was argued, lacked sufficient expertise and training in asylum law. These issues had resulted, the court heard, in a real risk of genuine asylum seekers being ‘refouled’ by...

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Money & Business

The planet as the stakeholder

...systems have with regard to business inputs and processes, there needs to be a vision. There is a growing body of work around these types of issues in business pedagogy. Kate Raworth, for example, whose ‘Doughnut Economics,’ considers planetary boundaries. She argues these boundaries should be protected as there are ‘unacceptable environment degradation and...

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Digital & Computing

A very brief history of AI

...system designed for this purpose. The human therapist, involved in the design and operation of the system, would not be replaced, but would become a much more efficient man since his efforts would no longer be limited to the one-to-one patient-therapist as now exists. In actuality (as Weizenbaum was all too willing to explain to anyone willing to listen) ELIZA is a...

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Education & Development

What is Critical Race Theory?

...systemic racism operate and manifest in people’s lives and in society is Critical Race Theory (CRT) (Bonilla-Silva, 1997; Ladson-Billings, 1998; Solorzano and Yosso, 2000; Delgado and Stefancic, 2001; Gillborn, 2008). [Police officer speaking to protesters with homemade placards at Anti-racism and black lives matters protest rally demonstration] CRT is a social...

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Society, Politics & Law

The Labour Party purges

...system failed young people so we had to make our own politics. I'm proud to have been involved in the 2010 student movement and the 2011 occupy protests, but see no contradiction between this activity and 'the aims and values of the Labour party’”. Quite apart from how this all looks, Goyder’s cases raise another rather glaring issue: people changing their minds....

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