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‘A little bit of kindness’: migrant nurses in the Scottish NHS
Society, Politics & Law

‘A little bit of kindness’: migrant nurses in the Scottish NHS

...Migration, 2001 Although the NHS was still dependent on migration in 2001, recruitment processes had moved on. Whereas in the 1970s, Sofi was recruited directly by the NHS to train as a nurse, by 2000 the NHS required qualified nurses. However, recruitment of qualified staff from countries whose health services were less developed than the UK was now viewed as unethical,...
DNA Profiling
Science, Maths & Technology

DNA Profiling

...migrate in the direction of positive charge when the voltage is switched on. DNA samples are usually added near to the top of the gel, so that they can migrate down towards the anode. The gel matrix acts as a kind of a sieve that serves to retard the DNA as it migrates. A long strand of DNA will migrate more slowly than a short strand because it is retarded more. Gel...
Article 10 mins
Introducing global development issues
Society, Politics & Law

Introducing global development issues

...migration, socio-economic security, technological innovation and environmental sustainability. You’ll be introduced to a conceptual framework called PASH (power, agency, scale and history) that will help you to make sense of these issues and consider how we might better respond to them. You will identify how the four key challenges of conflict, governance, justice, and...
Witnessing war through a smartphone lens
Society, Politics & Law

Witnessing war through a smartphone lens

...migration debate in 2015. Transcript Smartphone cameras have democratised photography. Wherever there are protests, conflicts and wars, the smartphone camera has become instrumental. Protests captured on camera can spark public debate and help trigger political change – as was the case with the Arab Spring. One image of a Syrian child refugee, Alan Kurdi, lying drowned...
Studying mammals: Plant predators
Nature & Environment

Studying mammals: Plant predators

...migration - The skill of thinking in a scientific way is as much a part of being a scientist as is knowing facts - perhaps more so. In this series of units, you'll not only come across facts about particular techniques, such as radio transmitters and bat detectors, but also the tactics that scientists use to investigate problems. In this section, you learn about the...
Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
The Who Are We? project
Society, Politics & Law

The Who Are We? project

...migration, citizenship and participation under the big question ‘Who are We?’ Artists, activists and academics from countries including England, Scotland, Poland, Finland, Iraq, Italy, Germany, Bosnia, Serbia, Kosovo, Slovenia, Romania, Greece, Spain, Israel, USA and South Africa were part of a programme exploring the questions: What does the notion of ‘We’ mean...
Half of climate safety level has gone - Climate News Network
Nature & Environment

Half of climate safety level has gone - Climate News Network

...migrations and economic collapse might make the planet ungovernable” The prospect it holds out is at odds with most mainstream climate science, and might well be discounted as alarmist and fanciful. But the lead author of the discussion paper in which it appears is the highly respected James Hansen, former director of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies. He and...
Bird ringing in Bog Meadows
OpenLearn Ireland

Bird ringing in Bog Meadows

...migrate and how population levels change. This video shows how it works in Bog Meadows, a city nature reserve a few metres from the M1 motorway in Northern Ireland...Bird ringing is a world-wide method of finding out where birds migrate and how population levels change. See here how it is done on the Bog Meadows, a city nature reserve a few metres from the M1 motorway...