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Sam Selvon, The Lonely Londoners
History & The Arts

Sam Selvon, The Lonely Londoners

...English, whose ignorance of black people shocked me. (Selvon in Nasta and Rutherford, 1995, pp. 58–9) It was as a consequence of encountering migrants from other West Indian islands that Selvon for the first time became ‘aware of the richness and diversity of Caribbean speech’ (Sandhu, 2003, p. 145), an important factor in the writing strategies adopted in The...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Who makes the difficult decisions about children’s treatment?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Who makes the difficult decisions about children’s treatment?

...everyday routine medical practice. In fact understanding children’s rights and assessing capacity to make decisions is relevant to the practice of all professionals working with children. Each profession should have guidelines to help them make the right decisions with children ensuring their rights are respected. What about the parents? Parents will nearly always be...
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Article 15 mins
The Bottom Line Expert Opinion: The Volkswagen Scandal
Money & Business

The Bottom Line Expert Opinion: The Volkswagen Scandal

...everyday drink products. Paul Levy investigates this issue in his article in The Conversation “Toxic innovation: Volkswagen is the tip of a destructive iceberg”. Just as significant have been questions regarding what this means for the company’s corporate governance. A crucial defect of Volkswagen, it is widely argued, is that its corporate structure is closed...
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Article 5 mins
Investigating environmental futures through speculative design
Society, Politics & Law

Investigating environmental futures through speculative design

...Everyday Futures Network at the Industrial Design Department of Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands. The workshop brought together academics and designers from various disciplines to explore how ‘thinking through making’ might allow us to investigate potential future ways of life that are more responsive to contemporary social and environmental...
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Article 5 mins
Your journey of learning and discovery with us
Education & Development

Your journey of learning and discovery with us

...Everyday computer skills: developed in partnership with LEAD to equip people with the skills and knowledge they need to get started in a digital world. Essential skills for online learning: this resource, developed by The University of Manchester Library, will help you to develop skills to get the most out of being an online learner. Accessibility While all OpenLearn...
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Article 5 mins
Seeing the internet
Digital & Computing

Seeing the internet

...everyday ways in which you might use it: checking email, internet banking, an online supermarket order, ‘skyping’ friends? Or perhaps you think about the 'net' itself, the internet as a global infrastructure, connecting different places? The image above is one of the most commonly used images of the internet, from The Opte Project. It was generated on 11 July 2015 and...
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Article 10 mins
How do we explain racial disproportionality in the criminal justice systems in the US and England and Wales?
Education & Development

How do we explain racial disproportionality in the criminal justice systems in the US and England and Wales?

...everyday racism that ‘originates and operates in established and respected (social) forces, and therefore receives far less public condemnation’. Ture and Hamilton (1967) coined the term ‘institutional racism’ in their seminal work Black Power: Politics of Liberation in America. In this work, Ture and Hamilton made an important distinction between overt racial...
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Article 10 mins
Owen's Law: the case for written allergen information in every food business
Health, Sports & Psychology

Owen's Law: the case for written allergen information in every food business

...everyday decisions about where and whether it feels safe to eat. The question is no longer whether systems exist — it is whether they work consistently, reliably, and safely for every customer, every time. This series is for anyone with a stake in getting this right — people living with food allergies, their families and carers, and everyone working in food service...
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Article 5 mins