The status quo of gastroenterology training in the UK

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (10) ◽  
pp. 781
Author(s):  
Nabihah Malik ◽  
Jamal Ahmed ◽  
Badr Abdalla ◽  
Majid Protty ◽  
Hasan Haboubi
Keyword(s):  
Status Quo ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Uk

Debates over Irish unification will gain traction

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Northern Ireland ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Political Agenda ◽  
Successful Implementation ◽  
Northern Irish ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
The Status ◽  
Scottish Independence ◽  
The Uk

Significance The differing perspectives of unionists and nationalists on the creation of Northern Ireland as a political entity within the United Kingdom, together with Brexit and tensions over the Northern Ireland Protocol (NIP), have brought the contentious issue of Irish reunification onto the political agenda in Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic. Impacts Scottish independence would likely increase momentum for a referendum on Irish unity. Successful implementation of the NIP, giving firms access to EU and UK markets, may support arguments for maintaining the status quo. If the UK government abandons the NIP, the adverse trade impact on Northern Irish firms could increase support for unification.

scholarly journals DOUBLE INVOICING IN INTERNATIONAL TRADE: THE FRAUD AND NULLITY EXCEPTIONS IN LETTERS OF CREDIT – ARE THE AMERICA ACCORD AND THE UCP 500 CROOKS’ CHARTERS!?

2012 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 115-156
Author(s):  
Ademuni Odeke
Keyword(s):  
International Trade ◽  
White Collar ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Specific Reference ◽  
Bank Of Canada ◽  
The Status ◽  
Letters Of Credit ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Exchange Control ◽  
The Imf

This article: First, (a) re-examines the fraud exception rule in letters of credit transactions with specific reference to the United City Merchants v Royal Bank of Canada (the American Accord) and against the background of a recent commonwealth decision accepting nullity as a new exception; (b) evaluates its impact on over/under invoicing under the WTO Agreement on Pre-shipment Inspection of Goods in International Trade (PSI); and (c) assesses its implication on the IMF Agreement on Exchange Control implemented in the UK by the IMF Agreement Regulations 1946 made under the IMF Agreement Acts 1945 as amended. Secondly, it argues that the current UCP 500 is outmoded and inadequate to meet current needs and is therefore in need of urgent revision. Thirdly, it recommends, inter alia, that in accordance with the said commonwealth decision, fraud by third parties should be recognised by English law as an independent and separate nullity exception. Fourth, and finally, it concludes that the status-quo acts as an unwitting Crooks’ Charter for money launderers, documentary fraudsters and other white collar crimes.

scholarly journals An “Ethical Moment” in Data Sharing

2016 ◽  
Vol 42 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-28 ◽  
Author(s):  
Catherine Heeney
Keyword(s):  
Data Sharing ◽  
Network Theory ◽  
Science And Technology Studies ◽  
Actor Network Theory ◽  
Research Community ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Empirical Ethics ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Ontological Uncertainty

This study draws on interviews with forty-nine members of a biomedical research community in the UK that is involved in negotiating data sharing and access. During an interview, an interviewee used the words “ethical moment” to describe a confrontation between collaborators in relation to data sharing. In this article, I use this as a lens for thinking about relations between “the conceptual and the empirical” in a way that allows both analyst and actor to challenge the status quo and consider other ethical possibilities. Drawing on actor network theory (ANT), I approach “the empirical” using the concepts of controversy and ontological uncertainty as methodological tools to tackle the problem of ethics. I suggest that these concepts also provide a bridge for understanding the ontological structure of the virtual and the actual, as described in Deleuze’s Difference and Repetition. While other science and technology studies scholars have sought to draw on Deleuze, this article addresses the integration of ethics and empirical research. It arises as a critical reaction to existing treatments of this problem as found in empirical ethics, especially in the sociology of bioethics, and indirectly in ANT texts.

scholarly journals Norms and Creativity: Tensions Between the Status Quo and Innovation in Quality Standards for Public Service Interpreting in the United Kingdom

Linguaculture ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 2012 (2) ◽  
pp. 31-39
Author(s):  
Brooke Townsley
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
The Public ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
The Status ◽  
Professional Registration ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Assessment Procedures ◽  
The Impact

Abstract This article will examine the validity of existing assessment procedures in the UK and compare and contrast these models with other possible assessment and accreditation models. It will also examine the possibilities for quality assessment (QA) procedures offered by the use of digital technologies. Implicit in this descriptive and analytical process will be an examination of the linkages between these models of assessment and the opportunity for professional registration. Issues addressed in this article will be: the status quo in the assessment and registration of interpreters and translators for the public sector in the UK; the impact of new social, political and economic realities on the existing assessment and registration regime; the opportunities and/or threats to quality norms represented by online digital technologies. The material will be of particular interest to: end users of interpreter and translator services in the public sector; interpreting and translation test developers and QA procedure designers; interpreting and translating practitioners, in-service and aspiring

scholarly journals Building back fairer in Greater Manchester and the country

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (10) ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Marmot
Keyword(s):  
Life Expectancy ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Health Improvement ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Social Environmental ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Inequalities In Mortality ◽  
Health And Well Being

A summary of our analyses in Greater Manchester (GM), and the northwest (NW) region, might be: the NW is like England as a whole only more so. The life expectancy drop in England in 2020 was 1.2 years in men and 0.9 years in women—shocking, but not as high as in the NW. COVID-19 mortality rates were high in England; 25% higher in the NW. Inequalities in mortality are high in England; bigger in the NW. The title, Build Back Fairer , is a deliberate echo of the Build Back Better mantra, showing that the levels of social, environmental and economic inequality in society are damaging health and well-being. As the UK emerges from the pandemic, it would be a tragic mistake to re-establish the status quo that existed pre-pandemic—a status quo marked in England, over the decade from 2010, by a stagnation of health improvement that was more marked than in any rich country other than Iceland and the USA; by widening health inequalities; and by a fall in life expectancy in the most deprived 10% of areas outside London. That stagnation, those social and regional inequalities, and deterioration in health for the most deprived people are markers of a society that is not meeting the needs of its members.

The Brexit Referendum and the Crisis of “Extreme Centrism”

2016 ◽  
Vol 17 (S1) ◽  
pp. 131-142 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Wikinson
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
The Political ◽  
The European Union ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The Eu

The result of the Brexit referendum sends shockwaves through the political fabric of the UK, Europe and beyond. It is the latest instance in a series of anti-systemic shocks to hit the EU, but will almost certainly not be the last, as discontent with the status quo and a disconnected elite continues unabated across the Continent (and is replicated across the Atlantic), and the European Union provides a convenient target for voters to express their anger and resentment.

Realism Redux: Staging ‘Billy Budd’ in the Age of Television

2019 ◽  
Vol 100 (3) ◽  
pp. 447-480
Author(s):  
Danielle Ward-Griffin
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Young Men ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Performance History ◽  
Television Version ◽  
Billy Budd ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Usa ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Opera Productions

Abstract Although the term ‘realism’ is frequently deployed in discussing opera productions, its meanings are far from self-evident. Examining four stage and screen productions of Benjamin Britten’s Billy Budd (1951–66), this article traces how this mode was reworked through television in the mid-twentieth century. Linking theatrical and televisual developments in the UK and the USA, I demonstrate how television’s concerns for intimacy and immediacy guided both the 1951 premiere and the condensed 1952 NBC television version. I then show how challenges to the status quo, particularly the ‘angry young men’ of British theatre and the backlash against naturalism on television, spurred the development of a revamped ‘realistic’ style in the 1964 stage and 1966 BBC productions of Billy Budd. Beyond Billy Budd, this article explores how the meanings of realism changed during the 1950s and 1960s, and how they continue to influence our study of opera performance history.

scholarly journals Can an Ageing Scotland Afford Independence?

2014 ◽  
Vol 227 ◽  
pp. R32-R39 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katerina Lisenkova ◽  
Marcel Mérette
Keyword(s):  
Computable General Equilibrium ◽  
Population Ageing ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Ageing Population ◽  
Additional Increase ◽  
Tax Rate ◽  
Percentage Points ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Difference ◽  
The Uk

The aim and scope of this paper is to isolate the effects of population ageing in the context of potential Scottish independence. A dynamic multiregional Overlapping Generations Computable General Equilibrium (OLG-CGE) model is used to evaluate the two scenarios. The status quo scenario assumes that Scotland stays part of the UK and all government expenditures associated with its ageing population are funded on a UK-wide basis. In the independence scenario, Scotland and the rest of the UK pay for the growing demands of their ageing populations independently. The comparison suggests that Scotland is worse off in the case of independence. The effective labour income tax rate in the independence scenario has to increase further compared with the status quo scenario. The additional increase reaches its maximum in 2035 at 1.4 percentage points. The additional rise in the tax rate is non-negligible, but is much smaller than the population ageing effect (status quo scenario) which generates an increase of about 8.5 percentage points by 2060. The difference for government finances between the status quo and independence scenarios is thus relatively small.

scholarly journals The Role of Civil Society in Political Repression: The UK Prevent Counter-Terrorism Programme

Sociology ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 003803852199697
Author(s):  
Narzanin Massoumi
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Civil Society ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Political Repression ◽  
Counter Terrorism ◽  
Cooperative Relationships ◽  
Civil Society Organisations ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Uk

Research on social movements shows a bias towards movements that oppose the status quo. Consequently, state–movement relations are primarily characterised as antagonistic. Where cooperative relationships are considered, the focus is on co-option and institutionalisation of movements. By contrast, this article focuses on social movements that support the status quo and how in their collaborations with governmental actors, they act as para-statal agencies. Drawing on findings from a multi-site ethnography examining the implementation of the UK Prevent counter-terrorism programme, I show how neoconservative think tanks and counter-extremism civil society organisations help to enact and extend Prevent as a distinct form of political repression. As such, this article gives close attention to the otherwise neglected role that non-state actors play in non-violent political repression. My argument builds on and extends emerging work analysing social movement activity beyond the prism of the ‘challengers versus authorities’ paradigm.

The employment contract and unfair contracts legislation

Legal Studies ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 95-109
Author(s):  
Douglas Brodie
Keyword(s):  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Employment Contract ◽  
Contracting Out ◽  
South Wales ◽  
The Status ◽  
Contract Of Employment ◽  
Key Issues ◽  
The Uk

In 2005, the Law Commissions published a report reviewing unfair contracts legislation in the UK. Where the contract of employment was concerned, the Commissions were of the view that, in short, the status quo should remain. This paper seeks to appraise that position and considers whether an opportunity to bring forward beneficial reforms has been missed. The paper takes cognisance of the legislative scheme in New South Wales, which contains extensive powers where unfair contracts are concerned. It is suggested that, in the UK, the two key issues which need to be addressed are contracting-out and terms which may be substantively unfair.

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