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Home education as a provocation for the future of education
Education & Development

Home education as a provocation for the future of education

...et al., 2022; and Unger Madar and BenDavid-Hadar, 2022). However, it is noteworthy that evaluating the variety of social and academic ‘outcomes’ of home education is challenging. Standardised measures of attainment are not reliable assessment tools because of the bespoke and informal nature of curricula, methods of ‘teaching’ and learning associated with home...
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Wellbeing for Work
Health, Sports & Psychology

Wellbeing for Work

...et al., 1998, in Lawton-Smith, 2017). Fortunately, resilience is flexible; it is a quality that can be developed and shaped, to help us both at work and at home. Disasters by their nature can negatively affect mental health outcomes with people developing various psychological symptoms. These could be severe stress, feelings of grief and sadness and adjustment problems,...
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Decolonisation and Higher Education: Closing the Degree Awarding Gap
Education & Development

Decolonisation and Higher Education: Closing the Degree Awarding Gap

...et al., 2017, p. 5). Taking an intersectional approach, which centralises issues of culture and race, is key in terms of developing culturally responsive pedagogy. Culture as defined by Sheryl Taylor and Donna Sobel (2001, p. xv) is multifaceted, dynamic, shared, learned, and can be transmitted from generation to generation or group to group. That said, questions to...
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Goal-setting for a better world: Millennium Development Goals and Post-2015 Development Agenda
Society, Politics & Law

Goal-setting for a better world: Millennium Development Goals and Post-2015 Development Agenda

...adaptation and or mitigation required; presence of entangled goals e.g. agriculture/food production was embedded under poverty reduction; data-limited estimations which were not always accurate e.g. on poverty assessment indices; presence of unassessed aspects of health e.g. non-communicable diseases and mental health; lack of integration/synergy of goals with other...
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Battered, Hurt, ...Shutting? Why has BHS struggled on the high street?
Money & Business

Battered, Hurt, ...Shutting? Why has BHS struggled on the high street?

...adapting to the trends in its core marketplace and not having the investment it needed at the points when it could have made a difference. Where others invested in the stores, the brand, the online operations and modern systems to link and manage the business, BHS failed in this and fell behind. The fastest growing retailers in the UK today are identified by their...
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Shopping for citizenship: A conversation at the Citizenshop
Society, Politics & Law

Shopping for citizenship: A conversation at the Citizenshop

...adapts to the nation of immigration and she or he brings her background with them to share experience and knowledge. A good citizen contributes to the nation and to the world in what way is the best for her/himself and the people the citizen is living with (humans in the world). * I am (citizenship) American Living in (Nation) USA What makes a good citizen is: Action with...
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Flame cutting
Science, Maths & Technology

Flame cutting

...adapted to give increased cutting speeds and to cut non-oxidisable materials by using powder cutting, in which an iron-based powder is injected into the oxygen stream. Cutting torches can be hand-held, but are frequently used in conjunction with high precision, numerically controlled guiding machines. Production rates depend on material thickness and composition, nozzle...
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Carbonitriding / carburising
Science, Maths & Technology

Carbonitriding / carburising

...adapted for carbonitriding. Temperatures usually 790–845°C. The atmosphere consists of a neutral “carrier gas” (similar to gas carburisation), an “enriching gas”, which is the source of carbon (natural gas or propane), and ammonia, which is the source of nitrogen. Times depend on material, gas composition temperature and/or case depth, but can be as low as 1 h,...
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