Category: Jobs and Skills
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Harland & Wolff: why the UK needs to keep historic Belfast shipyard – and heavy industry – afloat
With the threatened closure of Harland and Wolff, Pete Hodson calls for urgent political intervention before key skills and capacity are irretrievably lost.
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Why researchers should get the same client confidentiality as doctors
Social scientists routinely promise confidentiality to participants in research but what happens when they are faced with demands to break this confidentiality?
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Academia: A dream profession?
According to surveys, plenty of people would like to be an academic. Dr Kate Kenny and Dr Sarah Gilmore ask whether these people understand the reality of academic life in 2015?
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Disability, Welfare Reform, and Northern Ireland’s Inactivity Problem
Professor Duncan McVicar asks whether we are taking the right approach to welfare reform and whether changes to disability benefits in Northern Ireland will really help address an ‘inactivity problem’ in Northern Ireland.