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Fake news during COVID-19
Science, Maths & Technology

Fake news during COVID-19

...worked on epidemic Vibrio cholerae strains, Dr Bik conducted research on the microbiomes of humans and marine mammals for many years. Writing on her blog ScienceIntegrityDigest, Twitter, and PubPeer, she is an expert in detecting inappropriately duplicated or manipulated photographic images and plagiarised text in biomedical literature. Her investigative work has been...
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Innovative efforts to raise wages
Money & Business

Innovative efforts to raise wages

...social democratic solutions of the past up to the task of addressing today’s wage stagnation? Indeed, declining pay speaks to the need for fresh forms of national and international worker rights that link economic growth to higher pay. Thomas Kochan discusses these ideas in his article America doesn’t just ‘need a raise,’ we need a new national norm for wage...
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The Asian Single Parents Network (ASPN)
Education & Development

The Asian Single Parents Network (ASPN)

...socially accepted, you can be regarded as a failure if your marriage doesn’t work out, and looked down on. This can come from the older generation who believe that marriage is for life, that you should make it work no matter what, and unfortunately, it’s often the women who are blamed. We have had members who are going through domestic violence (DV), but their family...
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Supporting children's mental health and wellbeing Badge icon
Education & Development

Supporting children's mental health and wellbeing

...socially. Their work and practice remains an influence in contemporary nursery education. [This is a black-and-white photograph of Susan Isaacs sitting with a group of children.] Figure 2 Susan Isaacs with children at The Malting House School 1936: Jean Piaget, a psychologist, developed his theory of children’s cognitive development, which clearly demonstrated that...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Clickety Clack: a railway poem
Society, Politics & Law

Clickety Clack: a railway poem

...Social Sciences and History courses. [A women worker on the railways, first world war, sitting in front of a cargo vehicle, uniform, wearing a cap and smiling.]Clickety Clack Clickety Clack The rhythm of the railway track. With all the men folk off to war. It’s women left to do the chores Corsets and skirts are cast aside Whistles, trousers, gold buttons worn with...
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George Orwell and Nineteen Eighty-Four
Society, Politics & Law

George Orwell and Nineteen Eighty-Four

...work out what he thinks about socialism. But he came to say, and we know that the remarks that he vouchsafed to people in the week before he went to Spain, there were not in the least ideological. He was saying to people, terrible isn't about the Spaniards, something has to be done, poor chaps, we have to get over there and help – without really knowing how he was going...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
The contribution of women in the Singer factory strike of 1911
Society, Politics & Law

The contribution of women in the Singer factory strike of 1911

...Social Sciences courses Background The Singer Manufacturing Company was one of the first multi-national companies. From their US base they expanded to Scotland in 1864, starting the assembly of sewing machines at a small factory just off John Street in Glasgow. Growing demand for their machines led them to transfer production to a new plant in Bridgeton before...
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Trump - an appeal for enlightenment
Society, Politics & Law

Trump - an appeal for enlightenment

...social media, with assistance from data driven communication by social media companies. These target Facebook users based on psychological profiling from Facebook. Data driven communication ensures that political messages are targeted to the people most likely to be influenced by them. It is through this process that social media not only gave a voice to the frustrations...
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