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Poverty in Scotland 2016: Tools for Transformation
Society, Politics & Law

Poverty in Scotland 2016: Tools for Transformation

...students. The Scottish media were also in attendance. The 2016 edition in the Poverty in Scotland series contains up to date data and information about many of the different dimensions of poverty and their impact in Scotland. Contributors focus on specific areas of poverty and consider some of the ways in which these can be addressed by policy. Here the emphasis on ‘the...
Hope for UK nationals living abroad after Brexit
Society, Politics & Law

Hope for UK nationals living abroad after Brexit

...students will have to start paying higher fees, and whether families could lose access to child benefits. Those working could be asked to apply a work permit of some form. Article 20 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, which is one of the two main treaties establishing the European Union, states that every person holding the nationality of a member...
COVID Chronicles from the Margins
Society, Politics & Law

COVID Chronicles from the Margins

...student, represents COVID19 quarantine with a photo called 'Anguish'. Fleeing political persecution, she recently moved to the UK with her family from Venezuela. This self-portrait provokes a profound sensation in the viewer as the troubled eyes stare out commanding our attention. The two hair colours suggest conflicting emotions – safety and danger, disease and health....
How can we stop science, engineering and technology losing talented women?
Digital & Computing

How can we stop science, engineering and technology losing talented women?

...students, some of whom will of course become the next generation of scientists and engineers themselves. This report is important in setting out specific recommendations which should make a difference in helping more women reach senior positions. But in my view it shouldn’t just be about those high achieving women at the top. Yes, it’s symbolic to have women in senior...
How can your accent put your life at risk?
Languages

How can your accent put your life at risk?

...students who were considered lazy and poorly motivated on the basis of their English expression; or consumers who did not manage to return faulty products within the warranty period because shop assistants pretended not to understand them. Mundane interactions such as these have broad social consequences. Far from interacting on a level playing field, NESB speakers have...
A very brief history of AI
Digital & Computing

A very brief history of AI

...become a much more efficient man since his efforts would no longer be limited to the one-to-one patient-therapist as now exists. In actuality (as Weizenbaum was all too willing to explain to anyone willing to listen) ELIZA is a relatively simple program that recognises certain words and phrases entered by the user and uses it to generate one of a series of its own...
On the death of Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela
Society, Politics & Law

On the death of Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela

...students and workers, many of which ended in bloody massacres. Mandela was by now convinced that the ANC had no alternative but to take up armed struggle. During his long years of imprisonment, the apartheid government was slowly losing its grip on power. The anti-apartheid movement helped to ostracise the regime internationally. The South African Defence Force’s air of...
The politics of food introduction
Society, Politics & Law

The politics of food introduction

...become a contested political symbol of rural Britain versus the need to keep up with mass markets, and as the policing of pleasure increases, in an attempt to deal with social problems such as binge drinking, the new politics of food has a far reaching impact...Video Audio Text Commentary The humble apple, and cider, one of its most pleasurable products, tells us a lot...