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The impact of Jacob Zuma on the ANC and South Africa
Society, Politics & Law

The impact of Jacob Zuma on the ANC and South Africa

...management in, for example, Burundi, DRC, Lesotho, Ivory Coast and Zimbabwe. And as the “bridge-builder” between the West and Africa. It also twice took a seat on the United Nations Security Council and was part of initiatives such as the India Brazil South Africa Dialogue Forum. It also became part of the Brazil Russia India China and South Africa (BRICS) association...
What sort of Victoria Sponge would Queen Victoria have eaten?
History & The Arts

What sort of Victoria Sponge would Queen Victoria have eaten?

...Management, which achieved sensational and enduring success, despite Isabella Beeton’s rocky start with sponge cakes. The instructions note specifically that the resultant cakes should feed five or six people – presumably, fewer if Queen Victoria herself was among the party. Ingredients: Four eggs; their weight in pounded sugar, butter, and flour, a quarter of a...
How can we design for resilience?
Science, Maths & Technology

How can we design for resilience?

...managed for ecosystems, water supply, hydroelectricity and human activities. These systems are part designed and part self-organising, as Anderies and Folke explain: [t]he designed aspects include both ‘hardware’ (paths, roads, canals, boats, tools, buildings) and ‘software’ (norms, rules, networks of shared meanings, ‘culture’) that entangle humans with the...
Are NHS-recommended mental health apps actually doing any good?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Are NHS-recommended mental health apps actually doing any good?

...manage the symptoms of depression and anxiety. They are frequently described as helping users to do things like control stress, improve well-being and beat depression. Yet only four of these apps currently provide any hard evidence of results reported by real-world users. And just two make use of NHS-accredited ways of measuring the effectiveness of mental health...
How India reacted to Sundar Pichai's new role at Google - and what will he do?
Science, Maths & Technology

How India reacted to Sundar Pichai's new role at Google - and what will he do?

...management of Google Chrome, Chrome OS and Google Drive. Transcript In a video interview with Pichai on the Verge from June, the interviewer asks him how he feels about “Google trying to give everybody a supercomputer in their pocket”, Pichai replies: [..] The thing that attracted me to Google and the Internet in general is that it is a great equalizer and so to me...
Wheelchair basketball player Yasmin on coaching, classification and the cost of disability sport
Health, Sports & Psychology

Wheelchair basketball player Yasmin on coaching, classification and the cost of disability sport

...managed by the people around the new player though - the chances of getting to Paralympic level are very slim!" The Tokyo Paralympics “The success of the 2021 Paralympic games will certainly be a much-needed boost for disability sport. I’ll look forward to more people trying to get involved and people finding something that they really enjoy, gaining new friends and...
Why it is a huge mistake to get rid of parent governors on school boards
Society, Politics & Law

Why it is a huge mistake to get rid of parent governors on school boards

...management to account – will be done by “professionals”. The proposals to remove the requirement to have elected parent governors on boards risks alienating the very communities whose interests the board purports to represent. It is a grave error of judgement on the part of the government. The role of parent governors Defining what elected parents do for a board is...
Why we should remember the Armenians
Society, Politics & Law

Why we should remember the Armenians

...manage in the 16th century. The Poet Lord Byron was suddenly gripped by his acquaintance with the historical sufferings of the Armenians. He got to know the Mekhitarist Monks on a tiny island named St. Lazar, off Venice. He even wrote an Armenian grammar (to teach the Brits Armenian), forcing his London publisher John Murray to publish it. His eventual later attachment to...