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UK and Chinese universities join forces to offer clinical and healthcare courses in China
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/june/china
Two universities have strengthened their links by launching the first Joint Education Institute (JEI) in central and western China to offer both British and Chinese degrees with a strong clinical focus.
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What are children worried about?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/09/04/what-are-children-worried-about/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 4, 2017 The latest annual Good Childhood report from the Children’s Society measures children’s subject well-being and happiness.
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Monitoring and Impact Assessment of Unilateral Coercive Measures on the Enjoyment of Human Rights
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2024/11/11/monitoring-and-impact-assessment-of-unilateral-coercive-measures-on-the-enjoyment-of-human-rights/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 11, 2024 A UN online Tool to monitor the negative impact of sanctions imposed on a country on human rights i that country.
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Wider determinants of Health Tool launched
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/03/10/wider-determinants-of-health-tool-launched/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 10, 2017 A great new tool for Public Health England which uses official data to explore the social and economic and environmental factors which impact on the health of the English population.
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Social media and universities
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/07/07/social-media-and-universities/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 7, 2014 Social Media: When Should the University Intervene? An interesting article from Australia currently available free of charge from the Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management.
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Racism in British Universities
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/02/05/racism-in-british-universities/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 5, 2016 The UCU union has just released a survey of its BME members in which shockingly 90% of those who answered reported that they had faced barriers to promotion and over 70%...
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South African Governmental Publications collection
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2023/07/18/south-african-governmental-publications-collection/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 18, 2023 South African Governmental Publications collection is now available on the LSE Digital Library . It contains government and colonial publications.
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UNESCO open data
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/03/30/unesco-open-data/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 30, 2015 UNESCO has created a new portal with data on annual expenditure and ongoing projects since 2014. It includes donor, regional and theme based information.
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Sketch Engine
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/05/24/sketch-engine/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 24, 2012 We now have a new subscription to Sketch Engine.
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Free speech at UK universities
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2021/02/23/free-speech-at-uk-universities/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 23, 2021 Read the government paper that was released this week and responses from: Office of the Independent Adjudicator WonkHE Universities UK NUS UCU Russell Group Posted in Criminology ,...