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How did Emmanuel Macron win the French Presidency?
Society, Politics & Law

How did Emmanuel Macron win the French Presidency?

...class sizes to 12 pupils per teacher, to relaunch the European project in collaboration with France’s partners and to simplify the mind-bogglingly complex tax and pension set-up for French citizens. What happened Marine? Deep down, Le Pen knew she didn’t have the tail wind to take her to victory after a disappointing first-round result. She had hoped to go through in...
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However you feel about it, Labour's manifesto offers a choice
Society, Politics & Law

However you feel about it, Labour's manifesto offers a choice

...class voters towards the Labour message remains to be seen. Labour’s manifesto is a rejection of post-2010 austerity and has a full-blown socialist narrative behind it. It embraces the idea that voters demand something different in order to be able to distinguish the main parties from one another. It also appears to stubbornly defy the New Labour mantra that you must...
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Systems in action: Pea canning case study
Money & Business

Systems in action: Pea canning case study

...class. As the small canners provided an extremely cheap article (having no marketing expenses and a cheaper raw material), they could undercut the manufacturers branded product, and within three years they captured over 50 percent of the market. Previously, retailers' varieties had accounted for less than 1 per cent. The new automatic factory could not be adapted to the...
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Jediism: Will the Real Religion Please Stand Up
History & The Arts

Jediism: Will the Real Religion Please Stand Up

...classed as a religion, or is it merely a cultural fad? Check out our article then watch a short video on its characteristics. ...[Jedi origami] The release of a new Star Wars film always generates renewed discussion of what we can call the ‘religious dimensions’ of the Star Wars franchise. On the one hand the idea of the ‘Force’ draws on the concept of animism, a...
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Why Michelle Obama's farewell is a masterclass in speech making
Society, Politics & Law

Why Michelle Obama's farewell is a masterclass in speech making

...classes, I myself draw on these speeches too and more besides, including my students’s own choices of the best presenters or presentations they have seen. Sometimes, a female speaker gets added to the equation, such as Emma Watson via her 2014 address to the UN’s HeforShe Campaign – but nonetheless, the great majority of notable speeches are associated with men....
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The navigation apps that help the visually impaired
Society, Politics & Law

The navigation apps that help the visually impaired

...feedback they were receiving from it. Most found that, though the guidance was better than nothing, it was still nowhere near precise enough for the intricacies of navigating in a city. Paths connecting pavements were missed out generating long detours, and in one case a user was led across the traffic lanes of a busy bus station. This is why the developers of Georgie, a...
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EdTech Evidence: What works and why
Education & Development

EdTech Evidence: What works and why

...feedback with direct action. Ethics: Ethics frameworks are legal, technical, or guiding frameworks concerned with the human rights perspective and what happens to data. Given that today’s EdTech relies on data to deliver personalised or customised experiences, the laws and regulations that EdTech needs to follow are those of other data processors. Questions around data...
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From Astrobiology to Parliament
Science, Maths & Technology

From Astrobiology to Parliament

...feedback from external reviewers (including some of my interviewees). There was a lot to do and the pace was pretty quick, with deadlines every couple of weeks. But I liked that change of environment; it really suited me. And now I’ve come back to my PhD, I’m trying to keep that pace up! How did you find out about POST fellowships? Just by chatting to another student...
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