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climate issue or Gender climate?

  Fatema Miah: In climate issue solution our activists and decision makers thought about climate and gender equality. I wrote in my last article about climate and equality. Bangladesh has been hard hit by climate change, as shown in the case study. With the increasing trends in disasters, it had reached pole position amongst vulnerable countries. “The Climate Change Vulnerability Index  identified ...

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University tuition fees ‘should be cut to £7,500’

University tuition fees in England should be cut to £7,500, according to a review which also says student loan repayments should continue for up to 40 rather than 30 years. The government-commissioned review calls for better funding for students in vocational education. Maintenance grants to support poorer students, scrapped in 2016, should also be reinstated, it says. “I believe it ...

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Activist James Swapan Peris passed away

Ansar Ahmed Ullah: Well known activist James Swapan Peris passed away on Monday 27 May in a West London hospital. He died of kidney failure and brain haemorrhage though he had been ill for a while. He was a cultural, secular, human rights & community activist involved with various organisations including the Nirmul Committee, Bangladesh Hindu Buddhist Christian Unity Council, ...

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Functions and principles of HRM

Taslim Ahammad: Human resources management evolved from the task-oriented nature from personnel administration in the 1980s and 1990s to a strategy-focused extension of the organization in the 2000s. The transition into a strategic partnership role supports an effective HR management system. HR management is driven by HR functions and several HR principles. Human Resource Management (HRM) is a collective term ...

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Labour to Make Climate Change Core Part of School Curriculum

Mayor of Tower Hamlets John Biggs has welcomed the announcement from the national Labour Party that climate change should be a core part of the school curriculum. Under plans set out by Shadow Education Secretary Angela Rayner, the next Labour government will ensure all young people are educated about the ecological and social impact of climate change. A review of ...

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Brexit: Boris Johnson ordered to appear in court over £350m claim

at a campaign rally outside the Vote Leave bus Boris Johnson has been ordered to appear in court over claims he lied by saying the UK gave the EU £350m a week. The Tory leadership candidate has been accused of misconduct in public office after making the claim during the 2016 EU referendum campaign. It is a private prosecution launched ...

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Lived Brutalism: Major new exhibition at Four Corners

Ansar Ahmed Ullah: A photography exhibition has opened at Four Corners, Roman Road, Bethnal Green this month, chronicling the lives of Robin Hood Gardens in Poplar, East London, residents in the estate’s last years before demolition. An iconic ‘Streets in the Sky’ housing scheme, Robin Hood Gardens had been celebrated as a masterpiece of modernism and reviled as a ‘concrete ...

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Climate, environment, biodiversity – Quran and Hadiths (Indonesia)

Fatema Miah: As I wrote repeatedly previously  climate linked to all subject matters and therefore it is faith matter too and climate Issue is Muslims issue too therefore Muslims must respond to tackle climate matters and take step/ action to protect biodiversity. I wrote climate issue is faith matter from my common sense of creation and the creator’s law of ...

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Commonwealth leaders visit Children’s House Nursery School

Senior leaders from all over the Commonwealth visited Children’s House Nursery School in Tower Hamlets to see how the borough is narrowing the attainment gap and building resilience in children. The delegation of 15 senior figures from Ghana, Egypt, Australia, South Africa, India, Pakistan, Kenya, Zambia, Singapore and Trinidad and Tobago visited the ‘outstanding’ nursery school in Bow. They saw the ...

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Ramadan charity event Celebration of Love, Peace & Harmony

A charity event during Ramadan, titled “Celebration of Love, Peace & Harmony” was held on Saturday 25th May at Beech Grove, Hainault, Ilford. The organiser of the event Pushpita Gupta of Secular Bangladesh Movement UK (SBMUK) said, ‘The recent attacks in New Zealand and Sri Lanka is driving divisions in the community. Which makes it even more important that we ...

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