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The budget warns about danger ahead
Money & Business

The budget warns about danger ahead

...data described in the text] Note: The policy uncertainty index is constructed based on newspaper articles regarding policy uncertainty from The Times and The Financial Times. It counts the number of newspaper articles containing the terms uncertain or uncertainty, economic or economy, and one or more policy-relevant terms. In any case, the Chancellor announced measures to...
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Are robots about to take jobs from the poor?
Science, Maths & Technology

Are robots about to take jobs from the poor?

...data transcription or IT support. “So many international development actors are largely unprepared for the changes underfoot,” Melissa Leach, director of IDS, told the meeting. “The stakes in this, I must emphasise, couldn’t be higher.” Mass unemployment is one; loss of revenue for governments is another; and then there's the disproportionate effect on women...
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Earth in crisis: environmental policy in an international context
Nature & Environment

Earth in crisis: environmental policy in an international context

...the nature of scientific knowledge, and it's relationship to policy making regarding climate change The Policy Makers The process of using scientific data to inform government policies with regards to safe-guarding the planet. A Sustainable Climate? A look at sustainable development, and it's implications faced by society and the environment, both now and in the future....
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Bus driver, social worker and university lecturer, a personal, professional and political journey
Society, Politics & Law

Bus driver, social worker and university lecturer, a personal, professional and political journey

...analysis as to how I have developed from being a manual worker (bus driver), to a social work practitioner and onto my current academic post as a university lecturer in social work. Charting my passion for social justice Since my teenage years I have had a passion for social justice. In the early 1970s I sat with my mother watching a documentary on ‘battered wives’....
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Race and Youth Policy: working with young people
Education & Development

Race and Youth Policy: working with young people

...Analysis of youth policy and its growing preoccupation with risk helps in seeing the close relationship between our understandings of young people and their lives, and the priorities of policies directed towards them. Usually, these initiatives seem to involve persuading young people to improve their ability to overcome the risks through education and training, or...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
Basic science: understanding numbers
Science, Maths & Technology

Basic science: understanding numbers

...data. This course is going to assume that you are new to studying science, so don’t worry if you haven’t studied science before. The course starts off simply, but by Week 4 you will be calculating the density of the Greenland ice sheet! This week, you’ll be focusing on how numbers are used in science. To test your knowledge you can try the end-of-week quizzes and...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
What does 'settled status' for EU citizens mean?
Society, Politics & Law

What does 'settled status' for EU citizens mean?

...data taken from Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs (HMRC) and the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP). This places emphasis on workers, and could make the process more difficult for non-workers, such as the elderly or disabled individuals. Any data held by the HMRC or DWP on these non-workers are more likely to be records of their benefit claims, if any. Given the...
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The importance of education for students in secure environments
Education & Development

The importance of education for students in secure environments

...data and assessment and the levels of knowledge and understanding of staff. A recent joint review by criminal justice inspectorates estimates that around half of those entering prison have some form of neurodivergent condition which impacts their ability to engage (Prison reform trust 2022, Prison: the facts Bromley Briefings Summer 2022) Furthermore, around three in ten...
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