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The Bottom Line Expert Opinion: The Northern Powerhouse
Money & Business

The Bottom Line Expert Opinion: The Northern Powerhouse

...system, publicly backed schemes to improve worker retention in the North and the creation of a National Investment Bank. Geraint Johnes looks at these alternatives in his article “Northern Powerhouse: Cruel Deception or Cool Conception?” This article was written to accompany the Autumn 2015 series of The Bottom Line. For more information on the series, visit the...
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Electrochemical Grinding (ECG)
Science, Maths & Technology

Electrochemical Grinding (ECG)

...system and the boiling point of electrolyte. Removal rates are 5–10 times those of conventional grinding for hard materials; typically 0.15 cm3 min–1 (100 A)–1. Main use of process is the shaping and sharpening of WC cutting tools, although it has been used for sharpening hypodermic needles and machining thin, fragile, honeycombed structures. Materials: Almost any...
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Hip Hop and the Institution
History & The Arts

Hip Hop and the Institution

...systems and educational practices or amplifying oppressed voices) and articulate political critique and push for social justice and decolonisation. With rising social inequalities, global threats like the resurgence of fascism, genocides and the climate collapse, the relationship between Hip Hop and the Institution will only become thornier, and so the conference has laid...
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Belfast - healthy city
Society, Politics & Law

Belfast - healthy city

...system Legacies of the troubles David Stewart on how Northern Ireland's sectarian divide can throw up unexpected health issues such as problems finding sufficient space to exercise. The Belfast City Health plan Joan Devlin on the consultation document produced to try to get organisations to think about health in all aspects of their planning. Success of Belfast Healthy...
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Crafting a new international partnership for racial equity in Higher Education
Education & Development

Crafting a new international partnership for racial equity in Higher Education

...systems and aiming to carve out a new path that is Africa-centred, decolonised and yet globally connected. On the one hand, Makerere had emerged as the leading university in the region based on foundations that were questionable on grounds of, not least, low recognition of local culture and knowledge. On the other hand, Makerere needed and needs to secure its leadership...
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Eric King and Bill Binney: Some thoughts on their interview
Society, Politics & Law

Eric King and Bill Binney: Some thoughts on their interview

...systems experts, to know that this is exactly how both public and private sector bureaucracies do behave. The driving forces in the DNA of every bureaucracy are the twin desires for survival and growth. When you divide complex, deeply interconnected and interdependent public service systems up into competing quasi-autonomous silos - some bigger and more glamorous than...
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What does the US election mean for Europe?
Society, Politics & Law

What does the US election mean for Europe?

...system. But, even if true, the effect on voting for US Senators – what Americans refer to as “down-ballot voting” – could be significant. Faced with this continuously raucous process, relatively few Americans – beyond each candidate’s transition teams – have spent much time contemplating what will happen on 9 November. And most of that discussion in the...
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Culture can be brutal, just ask Milton Keynes
Society, Politics & Law

Culture can be brutal, just ask Milton Keynes

...system then breaks with it in the late 1990s to expedite commercial value extraction by building smaller, cheaper roads to much denser housing. Beneath all of this is one brutal truth – there is no clear water between the profane business of economy and the sacred activity of culture – and the town knows it. Nothing illustrates that better than the story of the Milton...
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