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The experts who put storytelling, language and better paid teachers at the heart of early education
Education & Development

The experts who put storytelling, language and better paid teachers at the heart of early education

...families), addressed the inequalities in children’s education and was an early advocate of investment in high-quality early childhood settings. She saw that quality is achieved through upskilling the workforce and paying them well – a key idea behind the 2011 British government initiatives Graduate Leader Fund and Early Years “Teach First” teachers. Similarly when...
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Solving the care crisis with public investment
Society, Politics & Law

Solving the care crisis with public investment

...family’s standard of living, or was just completely unaffordable; this rises to 63% of single parents. Over a half (57%) of young women from low-income households said their mental health had become worse during the coronavirus pandemic compared to 49% young women from higher-income households and 42% young men of all income levels. 1 in 3 (30%) of furloughed young...
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Women in the Railway, the War and the Unions
Society, Politics & Law

Women in the Railway, the War and the Unions

...History and Social Sciences courses. With the introduction of conscription in 1916 leading to over 100,000 men in Scotland leaving to fight in the First World War, women had to step in to fill the jobs that men had left. Many of these jobs were on the railway and it had never been imagined that women would be able to do this type of work previously. Society was very...
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Danielle Martin
Education & Development

Danielle Martin

...History and Politics. Unfortunately, the environment didn’t suit me at all. I was a very shy teenager so the “traditional” university experience with its many social obligations was something I found too overwhelming.’ She’s a busy mum (and soon to be even busier with another child due) and therefore enjoys ‘the independent and flexible learning’ on offer as...
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Hat makers, Greek gods and the great poisoners
Science, Maths & Technology

Hat makers, Greek gods and the great poisoners

...history, to quote John Emsley: “Arsenic has a long and disreputable pedigree: its very name seems to condemn it as something unspeakable.” The reason why it was chosen by the great poisoners was that it is a cumulative poison (harmless in small doses), and since its oxide is colourless, odourless and tasteless and dissolves in water, it was easy to dose your victim....
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The Z Files: Chi Onwurah
Health, Sports & Psychology

The Z Files: Chi Onwurah

...history of engineering. The person I’m meeting today was inspired to continue this great tradition. Chi Onwurah is an MP, an electrical engineer and a lifelong Newcastle United fan. Her love of engineering started here in Newcastle’s Discovery Museum. Tell me what this ship means to you. Because to me it’s just a big ship, to you it’s a bit more than that isn’t...
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Navigating Black Irish identity in the music of Phil Lynott
Health, Sports & Psychology

Navigating Black Irish identity in the music of Phil Lynott

...family in Crumlin (a working-class district of Dublin), Lynott lived at the intersection of race and class in a predominantly white and conservative Ireland. While his upbringing instilled in him ‘an acute sense of national and gender identity’ (Smyth, 2005, p. 39), his skin colour and illegitimacy made him the target of racial and social prejudice. Lynott’s music...
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Week 8 Civilisations: The debate
History & The Arts

Week 8 Civilisations: The debate

...History, will be discussing episode eight of Civilisations on Thursday 19th April at 10pm. Let us know your thoughts in this discussion hub...[cult of progress image] Why does this episode refer to the “cult” of progress? And who were the winners and who were the losers in the drive toward “progress” that implicated the art, architecture and visual culture of this...
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