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Embedding employability in higher education is a key Teaching Excellence Framework requirement, and psychology departments across the UK recognise that this is indeed important for students' employability prospects. The Final Year Research Project is the most important independent piece of work that psychology undergraduate students undertake, contributing considerably to the overall degree classification. Therefore, it can provide a fertile ground for embedding employability and allows for innovation in teaching and supervision of projects. Yet, based on our extensive Final Year Research Project supervision and coordination experience, this opportunity tends to be overlooked by psychology departments, project coordinators and supervisors; often resulting in projects being given insufficient attention in students' job and further study applications and interviews. In this practice exchange paper, we first detail how employability is built into Years One and Two of our undergraduate degree, before outlining how it is integrated in Year Three within Final Year Research Projects. We then describe and discuss several initiatives that we developed and implemented to embed employability in Final Year Research Projects. We developed the 3R approach to helping students Recognise and Reflect on their skill development and Relate them to the next step in their career. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article traces the history of the only surviving autograph manuscript of Ode to a Nightingale, composed two hundred years ago in May 2019, and preserved since 1933 in the Fitzwilliam Museum. It tests Charles Armitage Brown's famous eyewitness account of the moment of composition against the physical reality of the manuscript, and examines its materiality in some detail. It also traces the history of the manuscript's fortunes through the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and examines the role of collectors, curators and conservators in ensuring its survival and its continued presence in the UK. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Natural Environment White Paper represents the most important conservation policy shift in the United Kingdom (UK) in twenty years. It formalises the ecosystem approach within national policy objectives and emphasises the economic value of ecosystem services. By analysing the use of various evidence sources, the involvement of science entrepreneurs, and the development of policy narratives, our goal was to understand factors that influenced adoption of an ecosystem service framework in the UK. We interviewed 48 policy actors and found that centrally-sponsored synthesis reports with entrepreneurial authors provided the most influential expert-based knowledge in the development of the White Paper . More recently published reports had greater influence, yet the window of opportunity for scientific evidence having policy impact was greater in the problem-setting stages of policy development. The interaction between teams preparing syntheses and expert entrepreneurs helped influence the construction of strategic policy narratives. Those narratives increased the impact of scientific evidence by communicating and framing key policy-salient messages, and brokering between broad ecosystem-based and environmental economics narratives. The combination of ecological and economics evidence was particularly salient in the UK case due to the context of continued biodiversity loss and the acceptability of valuation narratives within central government. Our findings suggest that evidence impact varies at different stages of the policy process, and that this is driven by the interplay of contextual factors like policy timing, personal influence, and the competition between different sets of actors and narratives. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Abstract: The need to increase the recovery rates of recyclables from households, reducing at the same time the collection costs, has favoured the spreading of commingled collection systems. This study presents a thorough analysis of the quality of a secondary source of recovered paper of a Spanish newsprint mill, imported from the United Kingdom, where these systems are widely practiced. The results show that the quality of recovered paper from commingled systems is very far from the quality obtained with selective systems: the unusable material content vary from 1% to 29% (11.9% on average) compared to less than 1%. Larger materials recovery facilities (MRFs), less oversaturated and with advanced sorting techniques, have demonstrated to be able to render better qualities, the unusable material content varying from 0.3% to 16.6% (8.1% on average). However, the quality is still far from contamination levels typically found with selective systems, especially in terms of non-paper components. This fact limits significantly the use of this recovered paper for graphic paper production where the major potential for an extended use of recovered paper in papermaking lies. Furthermore, there is a discussion on the cost efficiency of these systems and how the legislation and private or public initiatives are affecting the spreading of these systems, especially in the United States and the United Kingdom. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]

Focuses on the beginnings of paper money circulation and the Neapolitan public banks in Great British. Conceptualization of the possibility of replacing coin money with printed money by Leonardo da Vinci; Attribution of the development of paper money to China; Role of Neapolitan public banks.

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The article offers information on the Combat Paper Project. This project assists veterans in reconciling and sharing their personal experiences through paper making workshops. The papermaking workshops allow the veterans to create cathartic works by using their uniforms worn in combat. Their old uniforms are being cut up and beaten into a pulp and then they will form it into sheets of paper. This project is being conducted in the U.S., Canada and Great Britain.

The article discusses a Consultation Paper published by the British Law Commission about the law on unfitness to plead. The legislation's goal is to protect defendants whose physical or mental conditions prevent them from participating or engaging effectively in the criminal trial procedure. The paper's focus is on the proper threshold for unfitness to plead in consideration of what an appropriate legal test for such a finding should be. The procedure for the trial of the facts with a view to its reform is also examined.

Experiential knowledge of government business among clerks in the Treasury's paper room stimulated new logs to control transit of records and classified indexes to expand recall of business beyond personal memory. Despite a flowering of expertise in records matters before the First World War, effective changes were compromised by the volume of paper work, inherent limitations of format, and the increased speed of business. Additional staff was the favoured option for keeping up because it did not imply re-thinking the format of records, optimum linking of their physical and intellectual control, or changed operations of the paper room and re-assignment of staff. Classified indexes, a Victorian achievement in the Treasury, held the central service together until the restrictions of format and space for files and for registration notes and for paper room operations led to a new system of registration and classification in 1920. The Victorian separation of initial registration from ultimate classification was replaced by the union of the two processes at the beginning; the principle of file formation changed from one letter, one file, to one subject, one file. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses the case Deakin v. Card Rax Ltd. involving dispute in the greetings card business in Great Britain. The issues on whether a breach of contract or copyright infringement had been committed by Bees Knees Trading Co. and Cardrax UK Ltd. by failure to pay Deakin's commissions and continued use of artist's work are examined. Also noted is the decision of the court which clarifies law on claims for unpaid fees in bailment and for copyright licences.

Comments on the symbolic and legal role of intention to kill or not kill play in the British Law Commission's consultation paper, "A New Homicide Act for England and Wales." Problems revealed as a result of the symbolic master role that intention plays in this area of the law; Main themes that structure the Law Commission's view and which accordingly place intention at its core; Two views of intention developed in Part 4 of the paper and their relationship to the doctrine of double effect.

Comments on the 2005 Green Paper, titled "Youth Matters," in the United States. Policy development which have shaped youth work; Foundations of good youth work; View by the author that the Green Paper will only succeed if it provides a policy and resourcing framework which enables youth work to flourish.

Examines the 2005 Green Paper, titled "Youth Matters," in Great Britain. Parental involvement; Reward card outlined in the Green Paper; Criticism regarding the lack of cohesion in service delivery; Possible reactions of people involved in youth work.

The article focuses on the information gathered from personal papers for biographical purposes. The biography of Sir John Simon, Chamberlain's Contemporary is being discussed in the article. Despite of extensive collection of private papers at the Bodleian Library, there is a lack of authentically private material. Simon's occasional diary betrays a self-consciousness which suggests that it was written by Simon with at least one eye on family. Simon's mother Fanny died at the age of ninety. At the time of her death in October 1936, some of the highest offices of state were being served by Simon. When Gilbert, son of Simon, died a considerable amount of material related to Sir John was discovered by Gilbert's wife from his papers. Simon's private family letters confirm the seismic impact upon both his character and career of the early death of his first wife Ethel in 1902. Simon, at the death of his first wife, called his infant son "this child of sorrow."One of the papers so discovered revealed death of Queen Victoria in 1901 and Simon's irritation at the ritualized formality of national mourning.One of the papers so discovered revealed death of Queen Victoria in 1901 and Simon's irritation at the ritualized formality of national mourning.

The article explains that bribery law reform in Great Britain is a work in progress. It presents information on the Law Commission Consultation Paper which will call for comments and response from the public. The reform proposal on bribery law covers corporate liability, defences and consent to prosecution. The Law Commission proposes that overseas bribery should fall under two offences, the general offence and the specific offence of bribery of foreign public officials.

Comments on the 2005 Green Paper, titled "Youth Matters," in Great Britain. Youth service legacy; Modern concept of a youth service; Reluctance to give youth work and the youth service a statutory footing.

Studies the strength of periodic press section marks in paper by researchers from Great Britain. Parameters that influence the degree of felt marking; Development of new technique that can predict the degree of felt marking quantitatively; Usability of pressure-sensitive material to measure the distribution of loads arising from the fabric's structure when the applied load is constant.

The article presents the plenary speeches delivered during several conferences in 2008. It cites the 42nd Annual Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) Convention and Exhibit that was held on April 2-5 in New York which speeches' titles include "Correctness and Correction," "Creating Independent Language Learners" and "Worlds of Practice: In Search of Community." It notes the 42nd Annual International Association of Teachers of English as a Foreign Language (IATEFL) Conference and Exhibition from April 7-11 in Great Britain which discussed several topics including "Changing Global English Language Teaching (ELT) Practices" and "Motivation and the Vision of Knowing a Second Language."