Islamic Banking in the UK: Challenges and Opportunities

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Waseem Ahmad Langah
Keyword(s):  
Islamic Banking ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
The Uk

Defence Medical Services’ REBOA training course

2021 ◽  
pp. bmjmilitary-2021-001926
Author(s):  
Max E R Marsden ◽  
C Park ◽  
J Barratt ◽  
N Tai ◽  
P Rees
Keyword(s):  
Training Programme ◽  
Balloon Occlusion ◽  
Medical Services ◽  
Skill Retention ◽  
Training Course ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
Haemorrhage Control ◽  
Surgical Teams ◽  
The Uk ◽  
First Time

Resuscitative Endovascular Balloon Occlusion of the Aorta (REBOA) enables temporary haemorrhage control and physiological stabilisation. This article describes the bespoke Defence Medical Services (DMS) training package for effectively using REBOA. The article covers how the course was designed, how the key learning objectives are taught, participant feedback and the authors’ perceptions of future training challenges and opportunities. Since the inaugural training course in April 2019, the authors have delivered six courses, training over 100 clinicians. For the first time in the UK DMS, we designed and delivered a robust specialist endovascular training programme, with demonstrable, significant increases in confidence and competence. As a result of this course, the first DMS REBOA-equipped forward surgical teams deployed in June 2019. Looking to the future, there is a requirement to develop an assessment of skill retention and the potential need for revalidation.

scholarly journals Retraction: Challenges and opportunities of hydrothermal carbonisation in the UK; case study in Chirnside

RSC Advances ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (54) ◽  
pp. 33938-33938
Author(s):  
Eloise Bevan ◽  
Jile Fu ◽  
Ying Zheng
Keyword(s):  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
Hydrothermal Carbonisation ◽  
The Uk

Retraction of ‘Challenges and opportunities of hydrothermal carbonisation in the UK; case study in Chirnside’ by Eloise Bevan et al., RSC Adv., 2020, 10, 31586–31610, DOI: 10.1039/d0ra04607h.

scholarly journals Invisible pedagogies in home education: Freedom, power and control

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-27
Author(s):  
Amber Joy Fensham-Smith
Keyword(s):  
Social Values ◽  
Home Schooling ◽  
Home Education ◽  
Children And Young People ◽  
Power And Control ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
Pedagogic Practices ◽  
The Uk ◽  
And Control ◽  
Socially Situated

Abstract Home-schooling, or ‘elective home education’ (EHE) as it is more commonly known in the UK, invites contestation and controversies. Drawing on a UK-wide study of 242 families this paper explores a collection of EHE pedagogic practices within the socially situated contexts of doing everyday life. Through an application of Bernsteinian ideas, the findings surface some of the ways in which invisible pedagogies afforded children greater autonomy over the sequence and pace over their learning. It also considers how community development has helped some parents to harness the forms of capital which extend and remake new structures to strengthen the transmission of their social values. Contrary to the messages of EHE advocates, it shows that approaches inspired by unschooling are not devoid of power and control altogether. In considering the experiences of children and young people, the findings highlight the relative challenges and opportunities of transitioning from invisible pedagogies to formal qualifications in a context where access to public examinations can be difficult to achieve. Considering the tensions that these pedagogies reveal in the socialisation towards individualism, the author suggests solutions for questioning, challenging and bridging divides.

Thinking about Religious Welfare and Rethinking Social Policy in the British Context

2012 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 613-624 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rana Jawad
Keyword(s):  
Social Policy ◽  
Social Welfare ◽  
Social Action ◽  
Ethical Issues ◽  
Welfare Provision ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Role Of Religion ◽  
Ways Of Being

The role of religion in social welfare provision, and more broadly in shaping the development of state social policy in the UK, has become an issue of increasing prominence in the last decade raising both new challenges and opportunities. This article brings together new and existing research in the field of religion and social action/welfare in the British context to present a preliminary discussion of how and why religion, as a source of social identity and moral values, matters for social policy. The key argument is that religious welfare provision goes beyond the mixed economy of welfare paradigm and has the capacity to challenge the Utilitarian underpinnings of mainstream social policy thinking by giving more relative importance to ethical issues such as self-knowledge and morality, in addition to the more conventional concepts of wellbeing or happiness. The article proposes the concept of ways of being in order to bring together these moral ideational factors that underpin social welfare.

Artificial intelligence: HR friend or foe?

2019 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 47-51
Author(s):  
Peter Hogg
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Business Leaders ◽  
Business Decision ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Use Of Technology ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The Right ◽  
Productivity Dilemma

Purpose While the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in the workplace is on the rise, few understand how it will affect our jobs. Will it be a hindrance? A threat? Or the solution to the current productivity dilemma? As with any new, and largely untested, technology, AI brings both challenges and opportunities that we need to be conscious of. Design/methodology/approach The current and potential future implementation of AI technologies at Schneider Electric is assessed. Findings In HR, it is our responsibility to help navigate business leaders towards making the best business decision, often with the use of technology. AI, like analytics before it, has huge potential. Originality/value What we know for sure, is that the development of human talent has become one of the top priorities for global CEOs. With severe talent shortages in the UK, finding the right candidates for the job and investing in their professional development and well-being to keep them for longer look like no-brainers.

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