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Global challenges in practice: designing a development intervention
Money & Business

Global challenges in practice: designing a development intervention

...business, I have many kind of people. Moreover, even though I have a son. I will still teach him how to drill. Because I want continuity. INTERVIEWER So you say, you are proud to hand over this profession to your– JAMES ALABAMA ADEJARE Confirm. I am proud about it. I’m a borehole man. INTERVIEWER Thank you much Mr Adejare. (SINGING) Ladies and gentlemen, boys and...
Approaching plays
History & The Arts

Approaching plays

...money. KIT I'll pay. Example 2 NORA Really! Did a big dog run after you? But it didn't bite you? No, dogs don't bite nice little dolly children. You mustn't look at the parcels, Ivar. What are they? Ah, I daresay you would like to know. No, no – it's something nasty! Come, let us have a game! What shall we play at? Hide and seek? Yes, we'll play hide and seek. Bob shall...
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Two Yorkish episodes
History & The Arts

Two Yorkish episodes

...money. The flour for our tea-cakes, she said, was a shilling fivepence a stone, "And not too much for growing and grinding it, and all." Every week-day morning she rose at half-past four, and got breakfast for her boys, who then rode their bicycles, or, in the snow, walked, all the miles of our voyage into York, where they worked in the railway shops. No, they did not...
The winding garden path: Radicalism amongst the flower beds
History & The Arts

The winding garden path: Radicalism amongst the flower beds

...money. So I think allotments pose a number of problems in that they allow people to garden. When I had an allotment for a short time, [I] took a class of kind of twenty-odd twelve year-olds down so they could pull out a carrot and see what it was like. Laurie Taylor: Where would I look then for examples of radical...? George McKay: I would look at allotments, yes. In fact...
What is climate psychology?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What is climate psychology?

...business as usual: for example, it was British Petroleum who coined the idea of individuals calculating their ‘carbon footprints’. For over 300 years, Modern Western civilization has sought to overcome nature (including human nature), so much so that there is no part of the world where the imprint of humankind cannot be found. Hence the recent naming of a new epoch as...
What do tests tell us?
Education & Development

What do tests tell us?

...Business and industry are often questioning whether what is taught in schools is the best preparation for a working life. How do you test creativity? team work? motivation? ethical behaviour? citizenship? responsibility? Ironically, while the UK is looking eastwards, China is looking to the west – and turning to British-style education because Chinese parents find it...
How did the referendum polls get it wrong - again?
Science, Maths & Technology

How did the referendum polls get it wrong - again?

...average score of the polls would have been Remain 50%, Leave 50%. In short, at least half of the error in the polls may be a consequence of the decisions that the pollsters made about to how to adjust their final figures. Polling a referendum truly is a tough business.[The Conversation] This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article....
Will Brexit reduce the UK's soft power in Europe?
Languages

Will Brexit reduce the UK's soft power in Europe?

...business and diplomacy have spread English everywhere. The initial vehicle for this was the Empire. What we see now has its roots in a time long past. Over the past thirty to forty years, many in Europe have started learning English from the first year of primary school. It’s everyone’s second languagenow. Levels of fluency may vary, yet overall language competence...