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Diversity, migrant entrepreneurship and socio-economic inclusion
Money & Business

Diversity, migrant entrepreneurship and socio-economic inclusion

...management have initially been studied within the confines of employment and large organisations, more recently attention has been directed to ‘diverse’ entrepreneurship and, in particular, to migrant entrepreneurs and their contribution to the economy and communities. As most of the large western economies are reducing public sector provisions and moving towards...
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Systems thinking: a select glossary
Money & Business

Systems thinking: a select glossary

...management. Networks An elaboration of the concept of hierarchy which avoids the human projection of 'above' and 'below' and recognizes an assemblage of entities in relationship, e.g. organisms in an ecosystem. Open system A system which is open to its environment such that there are recognizable inputs to the system and outputs to the environment, e.g. an organism is an...
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Why the UK can't take business support for the EU for granted
Society, Politics & Law

Why the UK can't take business support for the EU for granted

...managing potential risks like this is a simple priority for major businesses. What both campaigns share is the focus on the theme of EU migration. This makes sense because EU migration relates to free movement of labour. The Eurosceptic business campaign argues that national governments should have control over the number of people entering the country. The pro-EU...
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Five things you might like to know about Recovery Colleges
Health, Sports & Psychology

Five things you might like to know about Recovery Colleges

...managing money, moving towards other education or employment Training, advocacy and peer-support skills 2. When did Recovery Colleges start? According to Meddings et al. (2015) ‘The first Recovery College was established in 2009 by Rachel Perkins in South West London and a second College was quickly established in Nottingham’. You can see a video about the first...
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Putting algae and seaweed on the menu could help save our seafood
Science, Maths & Technology

Putting algae and seaweed on the menu could help save our seafood

...Managing seaweed harvest correctly will also maintain the dissolved oxygen and nutrient levels in the water, contributing to the overall health of the ocean. [The Conversation]Making algae a common part of more people’s diets won’t be easy. We need to ensure that any new algae food products on our dinner plates have the needed nutritional value but are also attractive...
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A guide to developing trust with home-educating parents
Education & Development

A guide to developing trust with home-educating parents

...managers must ensure that all are embodying an empathetic and unbiased approach when working with home-educating parents. One parent also described the professionals responsible for supporting home-educating parents in her local authority as anonymous and felt that sharing information about the team members, including contact details, would help to increase familiarity...
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Transitioning from home education to employment
Education & Development

Transitioning from home education to employment

...managers in PR and communications, etc.), and being a civil servant (i.e., working in job centres, etc.). For example, Tom expressed how he could never be a civil servant in a job centre because “they completely lack values and possess no morality whatsoever. They are playing God with peoples’ lives and don’t care for the consequences. I would never be happy doing a...
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Why are synthetic drugs such a problem for the UK's prisons?
Society, Politics & Law

Why are synthetic drugs such a problem for the UK's prisons?

...manage life in this meaningless and dehumanising penal abyss. Drugs, especially cannabis, can be a means of controlling unstructured time by inducing sleep, thus making time consciousness much less evident. Psychoactive drugs, such as Spice, alter perception, mood and can even induce unconsciousness. That psychoactive drugs, including Spice, cause serious damage to health...
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