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Decolonisation and Higher Education: Closing the Degree Awarding Gap
Education & Development

Decolonisation and Higher Education: Closing the Degree Awarding Gap

...Data about the gap refers to students obtaining ‘good’ classifications in their degrees, either firsts or seconds. According to Advance HE (2020), in the 2019/20 academic year, the proportion of white students who graduated with a first or upper second-class degree was significantly higher than their black counter parts, with gaps between Black African students at...
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Article 10 mins
Would Donald Trump's wall work to reduce migration from Mexico?
Society, Politics & Law

Would Donald Trump's wall work to reduce migration from Mexico?

...data comes from a massive 30-year study led by sociologist Douglas Massey, published last month at the American Journal of Sociology and summarized at Made in America. He and his colleagues collected the migration histories of about 150,000 Mexican nationals who had lived for at least a time in the US and compared them with border policy. They found that: More border...
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Open Minds - Diabetes and Depression: A Tale of Three Cities
Miscellaneous

Open Minds - Diabetes and Depression: A Tale of Three Cities

...data in under-served marginalised communities Date: Tuesday 4th July Time: 6.00pm – 7.00pm Venue: The Berrill Lecture Theatre, Walton Hall Audience: Public event. All welcome to attend She will end with her latest research, leading the International Prevalence and Treatment of Diabetes and Depression (INTERPRET-DD) Study (supported by the Dialogue on Diabetes and...
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OpenMinds: Why visit Mars and what we might find there?
Miscellaneous

OpenMinds: Why visit Mars and what we might find there?

...data returned by Schiaparelli during its descent on 19 October 2016 during the ExoMars mission, Dr Lewis is well placed to comment and show some images of where Schiaparelli ended up. He will also update on what gases the scientific instruments on board the ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter will detect when the instruments are turned on next year. Rhian Chapman, who is doing her...
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Do we really want speed on our roads to be further reduced?
Society, Politics & Law

Do we really want speed on our roads to be further reduced?

...data' was uncovered, including a motorcycle travelling at 104mph though the 40 mph zone. A petition signer who is also a councillor has said that plans are being drafted to reduce speed limits quite significantly in order to 'make cutting the number of deaths and injuries on the county’s roads a priority'. Plans would include reducing many residential 30 mph limits to...
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Hybrid working and digital transformation toolkit
Money & Business

Hybrid working and digital transformation toolkit

...data-driven culture Sustainability Planning for the future, managing uncertainty and building resilience Hybrid employee experience and culture Collaborative communication and building trust Diversity and inclusion Physical and digital wellbeing Change management You'll also hear contributors from higher education institutions, public bodies, businesses, and other...
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The Internet at 40
Science, Maths & Technology

The Internet at 40

...data into small packets that could be transmitted across the netwrok and recombined at the other end. Pioneers: Tim Berners-Lee Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the world wide web, talks about where the idea came from and some of the challenges that had to be met in turning his dream into reality. Pioneers: Ray Tomlinson Email pioneer Ray Tomlinson talks about about the...
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Think like a scientist
Science, Maths & Technology

Think like a scientist

...data can be presented using different ways. So how do you choose the right type of graph to use? Making it all add up Since numbers first emerged people have tried anything to make maths easier, find out how these attempts have changed through time. Explaining scientific notation Find out how to write very big or very small numbers, and why it’s useful for communicating...
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