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Economics explains discrimination in the labour market
Society, Politics & Law

Economics explains discrimination in the labour market

...LES Employment Gazette According to the annual General Household Survey, the labour market position of blacks deteriorated relative to that of whites between the 1970s and 1980s. The difference between the black and white wage rose from 7.3 to 12.1 per cent while the difference between unemployment rates rose from 2.6 to 10.9 percentage points. And things have got worse...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
Looking globally: the future of education Badge icon
Education & Development

Looking globally: the future of education

...de Bono would probably call, ‘laterally’ – to think not just in linear or convergent ways, to see multiple answers, not one. So there are tests for this. One kind of ‘cod’ example would be: people might be asked to say how many uses can you think of for a paper clip. Or there’s routine questions. Most people might come up with 10 or 15. People who are good at...
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Level 3: Advanced 24 hrs
Understanding science: what we cannot know Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Understanding science: what we cannot know

...de Fermat, about a problem connected with a dice game is now considered a seminal moment in this development. The problem in question, known as the ‘problem of points’, concerns the fair division of stakes should a dice game be interrupted before a player has won. [This is a composite of two portraits, of the mathematicians Blaise Pascal and Pierre de Fermat.] Figure...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Medicine transformed: on access to healthcare
History & The Arts

Medicine transformed: on access to healthcare

...de lait, which encouraged mothers to breastfeed, gave out free milk to those that could not, and provided free regular medical examinations to check on babies’ development. Charities also provided free meals to pregnant women and the mothers of small children. To improve the health of older children, municipal authorities set up school canteens to provide free and...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
Remaking the relations of work and welfare
Society, Politics & Law

Remaking the relations of work and welfare

...de-motivation, despair and self-defeat that result from a ‘culture of poverty’. As the third and fourth quotations suggest, Mead was not persuaded by the standard explanations for dependency. To him, the main cause of poverty ‘is no longer social injustice but the disorders of (dependants’) private lives’ (Mead, 1997, p. 15). This view is echoed by some...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
10 years of The Bottom Line
Money & Business

10 years of The Bottom Line

...de-regulated online currency; but TripAdvisor and social recommendations - and the implications, both positive and negative, for all types of businesses - seem to be sticking around for the long term. Wearable technology is one of the big developments at the moment, but will it translate to the mainstream or stay strictly for the geeky gadget- fan niche? Apps are booming...
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Nine days' wonder in York
History & The Arts

Nine days' wonder in York

...de Clifford, who suffered death with his party chief, the Earl of Lancaster, when Edward of York took the city, and it is mainly memorable as the refuge of the Jews whom the Christians had harried out of their homes. They had grown in numbers and riches, when the Jew-hate of 1190 broke out in England, as from time to time the Jew-hate breaks out in Russia now, to much the...
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Networked practitioner: open or closed practice?
Education & Development

Networked practitioner: open or closed practice?

...de Michelis, G., Simone, C. and Schmidt, K. (eds) Proceedings of ECSCW’93, the 3rd European Conference on Computer-Supported Co-operative Work, pp.77–92, Kluwer (Academic Press), Netherlands. Bernstein, B. and Solomon, J. (1999) ‘Pedagogy, identity and the construction of a theory of symbolic control’, Basil Bernstein questioned by Joseph Solomon, British Journal...
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Level 3: Advanced 4 hrs