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Don’t forget! Innovation in engagement in mental health delivery

By Dr Joanne Tippett Filed Under: All posts, Featured Posted: May 16, 2015

The recent general election has seen calls for parity of mental health within the health care system, and this will require innovative approaches to involving people with mental health issues and their carers in service delivery says Joanne Tippett, as part of Mental Health Awareness Week. A participant with dementia in a recent event hosted […]

Tagged With: dementia, health and social care, mental health

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UK productivity is a leadership challenge

Chris Bones By Chris Bones Filed Under: All posts Posted: May 15, 2015

This week Bank of England chief Mark Carney – and the University of Manchester’s own Ken Clark – highlighted the problem with productivity that our economy faces. Here Chris Bones offers some solutions. Whilst the coalition government delivered employment and growth it did far less well on productivity.  The Bank of England reports that UK […]

Tagged With: bank of england, debt, deficit, infrastructure, productivity, skills, SMEs

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The Ebola virus is mutating, but is no more or less deadly, yet

By Simon Lovell and David Robertson Filed Under: All posts, Featured, Science and Technology Posted: May 11, 2015

The Ebola outbreak has loosened its grip on West Africa, as shown by Liberia being declared free of the disease a couple of days ago. This is cause for relief, but not complacency, explain Simon Lovell and David Robertson. The 2014 outbreak of the Ebola virus arose from a single case in Guinea, probably transmitted […]

Tagged With: bodies, ebola, infection control, liberia, mutations, Science magazine, sierra leone, virus, West Africa, World Health Organisation

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So it begins: Last time it was Five Days in May – this time it could be Five Weeks (or more)

Colin Talbot By Colin Talbot Filed Under: All posts, Westminster Watch Posted: May 7, 2015

As the polls open and ballots begin to be cast across the country as GE2015 gets underway, Colin Talbot looks at one possible scenario should the predictions of a hung Parliament prove accurate. It could easily be 5 weeks before we have a settled Government. It might not be, the polls might be wrong or […]

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Clearing up the mess in the English school system

By Mel Ainscow and Alan Dyson Filed Under: All posts, Featured Posted: April 29, 2015

New proposals for the reform of the English education system are outlined in a report written by Mel Ainscow CBE and Alan Dyson, Professors of Education and co-directors of the Centre for Equity in Education at The University of Manchester, and their colleagues Sue Goldrick and Dr Kirstin Kerr. The English school system is in […]

Tagged With: education, MIE

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We are deBono, we are Devo

By Lawrence Benson Filed Under: All posts, Devo Posted: April 28, 2015

Laurence Benson routinely uses the lateral thinking techniques of the original thinker Edward deBono to review new and old policy for public services. As a teaching focused academic at Manchester Business School here Laurence runs the recent devomanc policy through deBono’s Six Thinking Hats technique. Each hat has a different colour to represent a different […]

Tagged With: DevoManc, George Osborne, NHS

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Could the SNP block a Labour Budget? No

Colin Talbot By Colin Talbot Filed Under: All posts, Featured, Westminster Watch Posted: April 22, 2015

Colin Talbot looks at the reality after Scottish National Party claims that they could block any budget if the Labour Party is leading a minority Government. The SNP are claiming they can ‘block Labour budgets’, ‘end austerity’ and ‘stop Trident’. Their problem however is simple – most of what they say is based on assuming […]

Tagged With: budget, Conservative Party, finance bill, fixed term parliament, general election, Labour, minority government, parliament, SNP, standing orders

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The manufacturing of death by EU asylum and migration politics

By Tanja Müller Filed Under: All posts, Europe, Featured Posted: April 21, 2015

Hundreds of people trying to migrate from Africa to Europe have been drowned this week, when the boats they were travelling in sank. Here Tanja Müller says more needs to be done and that European policies have contributed to the deaths. It has become a defining feature of European asylum and migration policy in recent […]

Tagged With: FRONTEX, lampedusa, migration, UNHCR

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Why all the doom and gloom when things are getting better?

David Hulme By David Hulme Filed Under: All posts, Featured Posted: April 20, 2015

David Hulme takes the media to task over the way it covers the developing world. Bangladesh makes the headlines with stories of factory fires, exploited garment workers, political violence, or bombings. Yet, Bangladesh has shown remarkable economic growth and achieved rapid social development – progress that is rarely reported. In many ways, the country is […]

Tagged With: Bangladesh, developing countries, international development, millennium development goals

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Will a Greater Manchester Mayor mean even more great stuff happens?

By Andrew Wilson Filed Under: All posts, Devo, Featured Posted: April 17, 2015

At the Summat New event in Leeds, a group of 20 people from the North, who had never met before, sat in a circle and asked this question: “Are the voices of people living and working in places in the north of England fairly heard in our national conversation?” Here Andrew Wilson answers the question. The […]

Tagged With: conservatives, devolution, DevoManc, green party, Labour, Westminister, Whitehall

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