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Delivering tutorials for dyslexic students
Education & Development

Delivering tutorials for dyslexic students

...class. If possible, use groups of three instead of pair work – a small group provides a more supportive context and plenty of opportunities to listen to helpful models. Plenary: Make sure plenary stages follow group work so students are more likely to answer. When asking questions, select the simplest for the dyslexic student to answer and avoid asking them to read out...
Gender, IT and economic growth
Society, Politics & Law

Gender, IT and economic growth

...Class: Gender and Culture in the Silicon Valley/Bangalore Circuit’, Journal of Intercultural Studies 29 (1): 7-20. Salvi del Pero, A. and Bytchkova, A. (2013) A Bird's Eye View of Gender Differences in Education in OECD Countries. OECD Social, Employment and Migration Working Papers No. 149, OECD Publishing. UNDP, (2013) Human Development Report, New York. World Bank,...
Why is the iPhone X a thousand-dollar gamble?
Money & Business

Why is the iPhone X a thousand-dollar gamble?

...class as it occurs. Despite teething troubles, this decision is working out relatively well in China, a country further ahead in its modernisation journey than its fellow emerging markets powerhouse India, and where more users can afford to buy genuine Apple products. While the $999 pricing may not be the ideal option for India right now, the other options are worse for...
Has footballer price inflation run out of control in the Premier League?
Money & Business

Has footballer price inflation run out of control in the Premier League?

...class players and prices have rocketed. An alternative example of this is when Mugabe’s government in Zimbabwe started printing its own currency to fund war efforts and pay its debts. A loaf of bread would ultimately cost 10m Zimbabwean dollars. Although it would be disingenuous to compare the football industry to Mugabe’s regime (or Kyle Walker to a loaf of bread),...
What is biomedicine?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What is biomedicine?

...class women in mothering skills. Germ theory reinforced the official attack on personal filth—spitting, lice, scabies, dirty bodies—but provided no commentary on the social conditions which made such problems widespread in poorer districts. Germ theory and laboratory science remain important today as doctors rely more and more on laboratory testing to help them...
Horror and politics
History & The Arts

Horror and politics

...classes in the early nineteenth century. So how, if at all, does Gothic engage with this side of the story? Russell’s primary interest is very much in the proto-horror potential of the foundations of the Frankenstein myth. But is there room also for politics in amongst his sinister concoction? Or has the radical philosophy that was so much a part of the protagonists’...
Social mobility isn’t just about 18-year-olds: adults need life chances too
Society, Politics & Law

Social mobility isn’t just about 18-year-olds: adults need life chances too

...class honours degree). For example, last year students from neighbourhoods with the lowest higher education participation rate were 11% less likely to achieve a good degree than those from areas with the highest participation. Mature students are also 11% less likely than younger students to gain a good degree, and part-time students are 18% less likely than full-timers....
Catalan resurgent: how a language has gone from ban to boom
Languages

Catalan resurgent: how a language has gone from ban to boom

...class Catalans began to start speaking more Spanish. At the same time, between one and two million people from the south of Spain moved into Catalonia after the 1950s. These migrants were sometimes prejudiced against the Catalan language, not least because many of them did not even know about its existence before coming to Catalonia. Some felt no need to learn Catalan....