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Justin Thomas

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A new manual on mental illness will hurt more than heal

May 17, 2013

Psychiatry seems to be creating new illnesses rather than eliminating old and existing ones.Read article "A new manual on mental illness will hurt more than heal"

New findings hint at sharp changes in Arab cultural values

Apr 17, 2013

A limited survey suggests that some dimension of Arab culture may be undergoing important changes.Read article "New findings hint at sharp changes in Arab cultural values"

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Business picks up for UAE property model makers

May 24, 2013

Companies tasked with making scale models to announce developments in Dubai report business is picking up.Read article

Food safety improving across Dubai

May 24, 2013

Educating food handlers and enforcing rules is improving the health standards in the emirate's rapidly rising number of outlets, a conference heard yesterday.Read article

Latest Comments

Greater public scrutiny will make professional services better

Mar 25 , 2013 | 11:19AM GST

Dealga

The tragically ironic factor in the Stafford Hospital case is that the regimes of so called "accountability" and "compliance" instituted in the NHS in England contributed to the scandal. The insitution of ill-formed and simplistic reforms in much of the public sector in the UK (and other countries) has led to a culture of 'performativity' with ever increasing numbers of "quality benchmarks" and quantitative measures of performance concommitant with ever declining levels of service. Much of the so called "reform" has got more to do with reducing costs at all costs and is surrounded with empty rhetoric about improving service. In education we face huge challenges to do with purpose and provision; and sadly the dominant response to the challenges is the increasing insistance on a narrow human capital rationale for learning which is leading to disaffection and despair among learners and educators.

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Dec 21 , 2012 | 03:17PM GST

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