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How is a University obsession with teenagers hurting part-time students?
Education & Development

How is a University obsession with teenagers hurting part-time students?

...money would translate into some personal transformation, whether in aspirations for a better job or the kind of lifestyle they desired. Side-lined and shoe-horned Any notion of students “choosing” to study part-time were seen as a meaningless illusion. Learners were faced with a Hobson’s choice in which there is only really one option: it was either part-time or...
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Refugees languish in camps on Lesvos as conditions deteriorate
Society, Politics & Law

Refugees languish in camps on Lesvos as conditions deteriorate

...money so he could escape after his two brothers were killed; she remains in Aleppo with his younger sister and disabled brother. He’s depressed and scared, and feels he has let his mother down. Finding another way While women and children (especially unaccompanied and separated children) make up a growing percentage of refugees on the island, many physically fit young...
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Why books are a lifeline for prisoners
Society, Politics & Law

Why books are a lifeline for prisoners

...money. The project I saw in action is called The Big Book Share, and involves prisoners reading and recording chapters of children's books. A CD of the reading is given to their families so that children (and, in the case of some of the women prisoners, grandchildren, nephews and nieces) can listen to a bedtime story from inside. A copy of the book being read is also...
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Think you’re better at driving than most? How psychological biases are keeping our roads unsafe
Health, Sports & Psychology

Think you’re better at driving than most? How psychological biases are keeping our roads unsafe

...money from the public, rather than grounded in safety. The default 20mph speed limit introduced in Wales in 2023 has been widely opposed. This is despite evidence the new speed limit has improved safety, with the number of recorded collisions on these roads reducing by 17% since the change was implemented. The introduction of seatbelt laws in 1983 initially provoked a...
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Can you manage a supply chain?
Money & Business

Can you manage a supply chain?

...money keeping stock that you don’t need. So that’s the challenge. When you’ve tried it once, and it might have seemed that you could do it better, you can change certain things about the game, such as where you position yourself in the supply chain to try to keep it stable. And you can keep on practising. So good luck, have a few goes and see if you can manage a...
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Subjugation and slavery: fake news in the nineteenth-century press
History & The Arts

Subjugation and slavery: fake news in the nineteenth-century press

...money for the anti-slavery campaign, but the attitudes still reflected the racial pecking order. Writers found many different ways to promote the idea that African people were sub-human and from a different species to the white European to prove the inferiority of black people. Writers found many different ways to promote the idea that African people were sub-human......
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What are the security risks of living in a Smart City?
Science, Maths & Technology

What are the security risks of living in a Smart City?

...business requirements… My departments have business reasons why they want to purchase that new technology or develop that new application. It’s my job to give them alternatives, to show them the risks involved with these alternatives and provide recommendations for security controls to reduce any associated risk.” Hayslip is right to point out these challenges, and...
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Fermanagh: The backdrop to the G8 summit
Science, Maths & Technology

Fermanagh: The backdrop to the G8 summit

...business start-ups but they often fail as grants and support decrease. Distances to the Belfast hub mean fewer jobs are available in government departments – a major employer in the rest of NI. Despite the Northern Ireland/Republic of Ireland (ROI) border, much of Fermanagh’s focus is southwards and westwards into ROI. The focus of cultural, economic, shopping and...
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