Is Britain a fair country?
From a video by High Pay Centre
Wealth inequality has been rising rapidly in Britain for the past 30 years. Is the public aware of the extent of this growth in inequality? Do we think we live in a fairer society than is the reality?
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Advancing well-being in an inequitable world - 1
From a report by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundatio
What can we learn from multiple countries about advancing well-being—a notion of health that extends beyond the absence of disease? Need to radically expand the definition of progress to include well-being as a complement to economic vitality.
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The spirituality of professional skills and business
From an article by Business as Mission
Of Jesus’ 132 public appearances, 122 were in the marketplace. Of 52 parables Jesus told, 45 had a workplace context. Jesus spent his adult life as a carpenter until age 30 before he went into a preaching ministry in the workplace.
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Fair pay for fair work
From a report by St Pauls Institute
A look at executive compensation by St Pauls Institute. Companies need to balance justice and self-interest in a way that society perceives as fair and supporting the common good.
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Insights into poverty and inequality - 1
From an article in the New Yorker magazine
The amount of money you have is not the main determinant of well-being; what matters is how you feel about it. People who feel relatively poor have behaviours which lead to poverty.
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Online - Break the Cycle - racial equality in education leadership
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Explore how to change the culture of education so that no one is discriminated against or disadvantaged because of the colour of their skin.
Racism is the complex system of privilege and legacy, access and opportunity, advantage and disadvantage, power and poverty. It is explicit and implicit, conscious and unconscious. It is the air that we breathe. It impacts us all from birth. But education is the engine of social and cultural change. The question is simply, how will we use this moment to harness its power to break rather than reinforce the cycle of institutional inequality?
Professor Robert Beckford, educator, author and award-winning broadcaster, Tessy Ojo, CEO of The Diana Award, and Lord Michael Hastings, Chancellor of Regent's University London.
18/07/2020
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