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Rugby tackles homophobia
Health, Sports & Psychology

Rugby tackles homophobia

...codes of narrow forms of heterosexual masculinity which rests on the belief that to be a ‘real man’ you’re not gay. Like Gareth Thomas, gay men come out because many report feelings of ‘living a lie’ and feel isolated and alienated from society when they are hiding a part of themselves. He was fortunate enough to receive a positive and assuring response from his...
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Are women under-represented at tech accelerators?
Money & Business

Are women under-represented at tech accelerators?

...codes in order to fit in and succeed. Mentoring is one of the linchpins of any accelerator programme. Not only do the lack of women in accelerator programmes lead to a lack of female mentors. Our research also found that many women wanted a male mentor in order “to learn how to think like a man” – this being the perception of how to succeed in the tech industry....
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Grief and the body: mourning in ancient Rome
History & The Arts

Grief and the body: mourning in ancient Rome

...coding thus identifies different groups: the dignified seated parents are separate from the active and loud, lower-status, support crew. Does this suggest that in ancient Rome intense bodily expression in mourning was often a performance, and unrelated to real grief? Perhaps so, especially since images such as this are stylised interpretations. Yet the picture is clearly...
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MSE’s Academy of Money Badge icon
Money & Business

MSE’s Academy of Money

...simple savings accounts but also investments such as shares, commodities or property. It explains what is involved and the risks you expose yourself to as you look for a higher return on your money. The course finishes by getting to grips with the complexities of pensions. It will help you to think about your options when retiring, such as how much your state pension will...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Scottish courts and the law Badge icon
Society, Politics & Law

Scottish courts and the law

...simple. On 26 August 1928, the appellant drank a bottle of ginger beer, manufactured by the respondent, which a friend had bought from a retailer and given to her. The bottle contained the decomposed remains of a snail which were not and could not be detected until the greater part of the contents of the bottle had been consumed. As a result she alleged, and at this stage...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Uncertainty within the Realm of Statistics
Science, Maths & Technology

Uncertainty within the Realm of Statistics

...coded as A261; “Rupert” and “Robert” both get coded as R150. Soundex is a set of rules which tells the computer to replace which letters, in which combinations, by which digit. Wikipedia, as so often, is a good starting point for more details. I first came across Soundex when the Scottish Qualifications Agency used it within their processes for matching student...
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Seeing the internet
Digital & Computing

Seeing the internet

...code/spaces. Campaigning organisations concerned about both the human and environmental consequences of this mining have used images to make those costs visible. For example, Friends of the Earth have published this photoessay about the environmental consequences of mining for tin in Indonesia's Bangka islands, or read the journalist David Nield’s introduction to the...
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Article 10 mins
Differences and Similarities: Policing in the US and the UK
Education & Development

Differences and Similarities: Policing in the US and the UK

...codes of conduct Very centralised police forces: 43 Police Forces across England and Wales with national oversight and standardised codes of conduct Amount of training varies across forces Considerable training required to become a police officer Amount of education required to become a police officer varies across forces Educational requirements are standardised and...
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