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Youth justice in the UK: children, young people and crime Badge icon
Education & Development

Youth justice in the UK: children, young people and crime

...account by the law. Discussion Everyone accepts that children are in a state of change and development. Throughout adolescence – roughly the period between 12 and 21 – children’s bodies will be growing and taking on more of the physical characteristics commonly associated with adulthood. It is only relatively recently that advances in neuroscience have revealed...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Project management: the start of the project journey
Money & Business

Project management: the start of the project journey

...account resource constraints. (APM, 2006, p. 147) The Olympic Games is an example of a portfolio that is owned by the country that acts as the host of such a special event. Consequently, a programme is associated with each of the different sports involved as well as one to deal with the changes in infrastructure needed for the Olympic Games to go ahead. It is also...
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Level 3: Advanced 35 hrs
What were Victorian pauper's graves like?
History & The Arts

What were Victorian pauper's graves like?

...account of a tragedy in a London graveyard gives an insight into the way the poor were buried in 19th Century England...Friday evening an inquest was held in the committee- room at the workhouse of the parish of St Botolph, Aldgate, on the bodies of Thomas Oakes, the grave-digger belonging to Aldgate Church, and Edward Luddett, a fish-dealer at Billingsgate, who came by...
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Can the way research is reported play into sexist assumptions?
Society, Politics & Law

Can the way research is reported play into sexist assumptions?

...accounts of gender differences. By framing gender differences as biological inevitabilities, this type of neuro-discourse can sanction and sustain prevailing gender hierarchies. The recruitment of neuroscience to validate traditional gender roles was vividly illustrated in an analysis that Helene Joffe and I conducted of media responses to the aforementioned PNAS study....
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Attacked but not hacked: How secure was the US election?
Society, Politics & Law

Attacked but not hacked: How secure was the US election?

...accounts of Clinton advisers. These events increased public interest in cybersecurity beyond the effects of the revelations of NSA contractor Edward Snowden in 2013 and many high-profile data breaches. In recent months, government agencies and experts (including myself) have recommended improvements to the electronic security of our hodgepodge collection of voting...
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The difference between the Mexican Wall and the Muslim Ban
Society, Politics & Law

The difference between the Mexican Wall and the Muslim Ban

...account for almost all violent crime. If people want complete security, then ban young men. Banning Muslims from war-torn countries is a disproportionate response, not based on rational calculation of risks, but on an irrational fear of a cultural group, which is racism. Partisan lobbyists and the media will always make their case in a biased way. But when mainstream news...
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The research and modelling of COVID-19
Science, Maths & Technology

The research and modelling of COVID-19

...account, thus enabling us to make state-wide predictions as well. Some models that have included the role of interventions (like lockdown, quarantine, testing, isolation) explicitly in their modelling have come up with various scenarios under these interventions and their likely impact on the number of infections. However, for all these models, we have to understand that...
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Queen Victoria on William Shakespeare
History & The Arts

Queen Victoria on William Shakespeare

...account of it”. Wednesday 17th July 1839 After dinner, when Lord Melbourne came up to me, I talked of the heat and being tired; of what I should say to Mr.Macaulay; “Oh! ask him about India and Auckland.” Talked of the Play of Henry V.; “It's a spirited play,” said Lord M. Too much of the Welshman, I said; “But that's thought very clever,” he replied. The...
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