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Review: The Digital Academic - Critical Perspectives on Digital Technologies in Higher Education
Education & Development

Review: The Digital Academic - Critical Perspectives on Digital Technologies in Higher Education

...article had garnered over 300 comments, 3,000 shares, one jocular counter piece and a small storm on Twitter whose apex took the form of a parody account replete with a meme of a cat wearing a lab coat (@SeriousAcademic). Amongst the outrage, cats and memes was a debate on what new technologies mean for academic work and the university. For universities, digital...
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What's next for British wages?
Money & Business

What's next for British wages?

...article The new national living wage and you. These initial efforts to raise wages are part of a potential broader rethinking of the positive economic effects of paying workers more. In the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, recovery has been sluggish. Policies of austerity seem to have further depressed wages and general economic sluggishness in terms of productivity and...
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Highs and lows and highs again: How football has changed in the past 50 years
Health, Sports & Psychology

Highs and lows and highs again: How football has changed in the past 50 years

...article described football as: “A slum game, played by slum people in slum stadiums.” 3 1985 was a particularly bad year for football as 39 people were killed at Heysel and 56 in the fire at the Bradford Stadium. Attendances also fell to their lowest ever level. The Hillsborough disaster of 1989 when 96 fans were killed, and the ensuing Taylor report acted as a...
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EPQs: finding and using evidence
Education & Development

EPQs: finding and using evidence

...articles are designed to help you if you are enrolled on an EPQ. See previous article in series: Designing your research question Before working through this article, you should have settled on your research question. This article will support you through the next steps in the research cycle (Figure 1): collecting evidence (or data) to help you answer your question and...
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How to build a real lightsaber
Science, Maths & Technology

How to build a real lightsaber

...issue or two in making everything compact (where are you going to store the gas to be continuously puffed out of the filament?) and sturdy enough to resist a blow from another lightsaber, but it’s a good start. After all, the Galactic Empire wasn’t built in a day.[The Conversation] This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article....
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Sex workers’ labour struggles in Scotland
Society, Politics & Law

Sex workers’ labour struggles in Scotland

...article explores...Find out about The Open University's Social Sciences courses Background There is no figure so mystified as the sex worker. She is either a whore who must be punished, a fallen woman (and it is always believed to be just women who are sex workers) who must be saved, or a public health hazard who must be stopped to save society from her immorality and...
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Half of climate safety level has gone - Climate News Network
Nature & Environment

Half of climate safety level has gone - Climate News Network

...conflicts arising from forced migrations and economic collapse might make the planet ungovernable, threatening the fabric of civilisation.” Professor Hansen may of course be wrong, but it would be short-sighted to assume that he is. He has a strong record of ultimately being proved right. This article was originally published by Alex Kirby on The Climate News Network....
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Green Brexit?
Society, Politics & Law

Green Brexit?

...ETS) - seen by many as the world's foremost market implement for carbon emissions reduction? JJ: Brexit does give more scope for the right-wing ideologues in the Cabinet to undermine existing international agreements, especially as they largely seek to by-pass Parliament by making policy via trade deals. My answer, as before, is to kick them out at the next election....
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