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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

...Law Centre who provided information on process of registration and immigration status provide representation or advice on employment issues. Despite Trade Union support this wasn’t always straightforward as often private sector employers did not recognise trade unions (UNISON Scotland, 2002). - Scotland Unison Overseas Network Flyer More importantly, Sofi and the ONN...
Women and the fight to reclaim higher education
Society, Politics & Law

Women and the fight to reclaim higher education

...laws introduced in 2016 aimed at curtailing industrial action by unions, joining RMT and CWU. Over 70,000 university staff at 150 institutions are set to act, beginning in November 2022 and escalating in early 2023 at the beginning of the new semester. The higher education sector faces significant disruption, with sister unions UNISON and UNITE, representing some of the...
Innovation, markets and industrial change
Society, Politics & Law

Innovation, markets and industrial change

...law of demand’. So economic models can be stated in words and represented in diagrams. They can also be represented by using algebra. The claim that demand depends on – or changes in response to – price can be written as: which is read as demand (D ) is a function of price (P), all other influences held constant. Both demand and price vary in this model; quantity...
Unsolved problems in cosmology
Science, Maths & Technology

Unsolved problems in cosmology

...law: z equals cap h sub zero times cap d divided by c Equation label: (1) where cap d is the galaxy distance, typically measured in units of Mpc (where 1 Mpc = 3.1 multiplication 10 super 19 km), c is the speed of light (which is about 300,000 km s-1) and cap h sub zero is a quantity known as the Hubble constant, which has a value of 67.7 km s-1 Mpc-1. A modern Hubble...
Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
The Moon
Science, Maths & Technology

The Moon

...law of planetary motion (Chapter 02). However, the terrain near the edge of the lunar disc is never well displayed, because we only ever see it obliquely, and there remains 41 per cent of the lunar surface that can never be seen from the Earth...The Moon: 2.3 Missions to the Moon - David A. Rothery Teach Yourself Planets, Chapter 6, pp. 66-75, Hodder Education, 2000,...
Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Nine days' wonder in York
History & The Arts

Nine days' wonder in York

...Scots and Saxons and Angles; and in due course come the ravaging and burning Danes; and in due course still, the murdering and plundering and scorning Normans. But all so quietly, like the humming-bird-like expresses, with a kind of railway celerity in the foreshortened retrospect; and after the Normans have crushed themselves down into the mass of the vanquished, and...
Children and young people: food and food marketing
Education & Development

Children and young people: food and food marketing

...laws against marketing junk food to children and young people on the telly, but those laws don't apply online. To find out more about who's feeding your kids online, head to OpenLearn, the home of free learning, from the Open University. ...Children and young people: food and food marketing: 3 Top five things junk food marketers know about children - Beware the junk food...
Eric King and Bill Binney: Some thoughts on their interview
Society, Politics & Law

Eric King and Bill Binney: Some thoughts on their interview

...law. It would, therefore, be uncharacteristically remiss of the suits in the agencies not to take advantage of the prevailing political winds, to maximise their current and future survival and growth capital. Whether the Investigatory Powers Act, as it will become, will enhance their capability to counter threats to national security is another question entirely, one Mr...