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Your Health in Your Hands - PHBs
Health, Sports & Psychology

Your Health in Your Hands - PHBs

...work and how will they affect you? Personal Health Budgets or PHBs are the next major step towards personalising healthcare. They’ve been designed to allow people more choice and control over the money spent on meeting their healthcare and wellbeing needs... The impact of Personal Health Budgets In this discussion three people involved in implementing Personal Health...
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Audio 1 hr 7 mins
International Development: microcredit and migration
Science, Maths & Technology

International Development: microcredit and migration

...social exchange currency. Migrant communities, such as Greek Cypriots and Ethiopians in London, and Sierra Leoneans in Liverpool, have a chance to reveal the issues they’ve faced; while in the audio tracks we hear from experts who are working to expand the contribution that African migrants abroad can make to Africa’s development. Finally, a Chinese "beer pioneer" and...
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Audio 1 hr 50 mins
Budget 2017: Instant reactions
Money & Business

Budget 2017: Instant reactions

...Social Policy, University of York The biggest surprise of this budget is that the most significant factor that affected it wasn’t mentioned at all. Not only did the chancellor not mention Brexit, it is not immediately obvious how any of his announcements connect directly to it either. I would have expected a boost to regional development or support for new businesses...
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Article 5 mins
Should we educate prisoners?
Society, Politics & Law

Should we educate prisoners?

...social rights denied to prisoners, the right to education is inequitable to what is available to their peers in the community. Education as a public good According to the Ministry of Justice, "research evidence strongly suggests that education in prison can help people desist (move away) from offending". The UK has one of the highest rates of re-offending in the Western...
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Article 10 mins
Early modern Europe: an introduction
History & The Arts

Early modern Europe: an introduction

...Work and trade - Both the social order and religious beliefs went through fundamental change in the early modern period, but when we turn to work and trade, historians have described elements of both continuity and change. On the one hand, there were no major technological developments or wholesale changes in methods of production. Many eighteenth-century workers followed...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Six ways Sajid Javid can make British migration policy more humane
Society, Politics & Law

Six ways Sajid Javid can make British migration policy more humane

...socially acceptable. In the latest review of the UK by the UN Human Rights Council, many concerns were raised about the effects of migration control. Policies are putting human rights out of reach for some in the UK. For example, some visas make employees dependent upon employers and unable to complain about abuse. Healthcare providers are being asked to police access....
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Article 5 mins
The ‘boundarylessness’ of African-Caribbean religions
History & The Arts

The ‘boundarylessness’ of African-Caribbean religions

...work of conversion, he started to study the local culture and beliefs but with ‘Christian Western eyes’. This tribe’s religious system was called Badimo, which in local language means ‘ancestors. During his work of conversion, Moffatt transmuted the concept of Badimo by renaming it as ‘devils’ (Comaroff, J., and Comaroff, J., 1991). Furthermore, in his report...
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Video 15 mins
Managing my money for young adults: in partnership with the Harrison Foundation
Money & Business

Managing my money for young adults: in partnership with the Harrison Foundation

...Social Mobility. You make thousands of decisions every day, some are are trivial, and some are hard and could affect your future. Personal financial decisions (decisions related to your income, spending, savings or investing) are usually hard and could have a significant impact on your life. So what about young people? [A cartoon illustration of two young adults thinking...
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Article 5 mins