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After Manchester: How can you help if you know someone affected by a terror attack
Health, Sports & Psychology

After Manchester: How can you help if you know someone affected by a terror attack

...family, friends, colleagues or members of the community. Essentially, any caring person can provide a basic level of emotional support. The best support you can provide is to offer a level of human contact, providing them with a “listening ear” if they need one. It might be enough to sit quietly with someone and comfort them if they need it. If someone needs to cry,...
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The experts who put storytelling, language and better paid teachers at the heart of early education
Education & Development

The experts who put storytelling, language and better paid teachers at the heart of early education

...families), addressed the inequalities in children’s education and was an early advocate of investment in high-quality early childhood settings. She saw that quality is achieved through upskilling the workforce and paying them well – a key idea behind the 2011 British government initiatives Graduate Leader Fund and Early Years “Teach First” teachers. Similarly when...
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Politics, knowledge and social change during the COVID-19 pandemic
Society, Politics & Law

Politics, knowledge and social change during the COVID-19 pandemic

...family. Allegations have been made that the council has long known about the dubious work practices of these garment businesses but has either ignored it or not had the capacity to inspect and regulate, following swingeing cuts caused by the 2008 financial crisis and much longer attacks on local government funding. As such the pandemic plays into poverty, ethnicity, local...
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How Spanish sounded across its history
Languages

How Spanish sounded across its history

...family whose debts have been condoned. Transcript The 20th-21st centuries - Cien años de soledad Spanish literature is filled up with prominent writers from the 20th and 21st centuries. Among them, novels and short stories written by Colombian Gabriel García Márquez (1927-2014), winner of the Nobel Prize in 1982, are admired as prominent examples of one of the most...
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Try your hand at travel writing
History & The Arts

Try your hand at travel writing

...family or friends. To search for adventure and to open your mind to new cultures and experiences. To visit or revisit a place that has personal significance for you. [Mourne Mountains, Co Down, Ireland; Hiker Beside The Mourne Wall On The Slopes Of Slieve Bearnagh] A hiker beside the Mourne Wall on the slopes of Slieve Bearnagh, Co Down, Ireland. Next steps Now try...
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Methods in Motion: Developing psychosocially informed self-help on gender
Health, Sports & Psychology

Methods in Motion: Developing psychosocially informed self-help on gender

...families are, and the impact this has on seven-year-olds Robert Webb publicising How Not To Be a Boy, about the damage caused by dominant ideals of masculinity John Lewis announcing that it won’t label children’s clothes ‘for boys’ and ‘for girls’, with resulting backlash a couple threatening to sue their child's school for allowing a ‘male’ child to wear...
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Extending your learning with postgraduate skills
Education & Development

Extending your learning with postgraduate skills

...family, this is the one I have worked the hardest at and am getting the most out of. In particular, this is the only one which has really helped me gain the skills of analysis, evaluation, and criticality which allow me to present well-founded opinions." - Claire "I hadn't studied for 30 years and didn't know whether I could write academically. I have had to work hard on...
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Solving the care crisis with public investment
Society, Politics & Law

Solving the care crisis with public investment

...family’s standard of living, or was just completely unaffordable; this rises to 63% of single parents. Over a half (57%) of young women from low-income households said their mental health had become worse during the coronavirus pandemic compared to 49% young women from higher-income households and 42% young men of all income levels. 1 in 3 (30%) of furloughed young...
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