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Care for the elderly
Money & Business

Care for the elderly

...families. However, in the 20th century, especially, this became a public obligation to invest in and ensure the welfare of older populations. However, in the current climate of austerity this once sacred duty seems increasingly hard to guarantee. Added to this are emerging concerns of how we can support not just those who are retired but also those looking after them....
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Buddhist Economics
Society, Politics & Law

Buddhist Economics

...family, mutual and cooperative enterprises which have successfully resisted pressures to become a ‘public limited company’, and whose market leadership adds to the pressure to reform the shareholder model. How would conventional accounting change? Dr Mike Lucas assesses the changes to conventional accounting methods, and management teaching, that would be needed to...
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Audio 44 mins
Charles Darwin - the man and the scientist
Science, Maths & Technology

Charles Darwin - the man and the scientist

...family letters and her own cycle of biographical poems. Within the scientific world, Darwin remains an inspirational figure both for evolutionary biologists and for many other practitioners. The Nigerian scientist, Sheila Ochugboju, reveals how influential Darwin has been on her own career, and Professor Colin Pillinger of The Open University compares the voyage of the...
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Project management: the start of the project journey
Money & Business

Project management: the start of the project journey

...trees and shrubs, levelling the site, laying out the access roads and constructing them, constructing foundations and erecting the buildings required by the plans. A research and development department in a chemical firm may be asked to devote time to exploring the possibilities of developing products using a new polymer. At the same time, some analysis of the potential...
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Level 3: Advanced 35 hrs
Tim Lenton - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Tim Lenton - Stories of Change

...trees, grass, whatever it might be, and then sucking the CO2 out and then putting CO2 cycle into reverse. Do you think that is a realistic prospect that we would do that? TL: I’ve had a careful look at the numbers on that and it is conceivable that we could be in a position to do that but only if we were incredibly efficient in our development of agriculture and...
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Windrush generation latest to be stripped of their rights in the name of 'migration control'
Society, Politics & Law

Windrush generation latest to be stripped of their rights in the name of 'migration control'

...Families were split, accommodation offered was unsanitary, with infestations and intimidation. In 2017, children with families and connections in the UK, who had been surviving alone in the “jungle” of Calais, were lambasted in the press and their right to protection questioned. Citizens of other European countries, who arrived in the UK under conditions of free...
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What should I expect when I am nearing the end of my life?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What should I expect when I am nearing the end of my life?

...family and loved ones? What should I or my loved ones expect in the last hours or days before dying? Dying is often a peaceful event, whereby the person sleeps more, stops eating and drinking, stops speaking, then dies. Sometimes symptoms such as loud and wet breathing, restlessness, pain, breathlessness, bleeding, seizures and distress or agitation can arise – and can...
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Sea level rise in Looe, Cornwall
Nature & Environment

Sea level rise in Looe, Cornwall

...Families who live in the area are familiar with flooding from the sea when there is a high tide, and these have increased in recent years. Retired trawlerman Armand Toms, who represents Looe East on Cornwall council, has seen the town flood throughout his life. “If we get a metre more by the end of the century – is anything going to survive here?” (The Guardian,...
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