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Sylvia Pankhurst: The Expert View
Society, Politics & Law

Sylvia Pankhurst: The Expert View

...working class women who campaigned for the vote and for social change in the period 1912-1920. They maintained the suffrage battle during the war years as well as establishing many practical projects in the East End to relieve distress. The ELFS weekly paper, The Women’s Dreadnought (later, The Worker’s Dreadnought), owned and edited by Sylvia, had a high circulation...
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Article 10 mins
Assessing contemporary science
Science, Maths & Technology

Assessing contemporary science

...working in a vast array of sub-disciplines (Schummer, 2009). In this short course you will encounter, among others: conservation biologists working to better understand how animals, plants and humans interrelate and influence each other; life scientists studying the microbiology of the heart, and Earth scientists who explore how metamorphic rocks are formed. Despite the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 9 hrs
What are nerve agents - and what do they do?
Science, Maths & Technology

What are nerve agents - and what do they do?

...work...[Members of the 93rd Weapons of Mass Destruction Civil Support Team (WMD CST) scan a survey team member for nerve or blister agents with chemical detection equipment during a casualty evacuation drill. ] The US navy at Pearl Harbor holds a drill, including scanning a person for signs of chemical contamination The former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter...
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Article 5 mins
The Writer's Room: J.K. Rowling
History & The Arts

The Writer's Room: J.K. Rowling

...work in pursuit of supplementing the experience of reading with something more immediate, sensory, and experimental. What exactly then does the writer’s desk and chair ‘mean’? What is its value? Commercially, it has lent lustre to the hotel for sure, and doubtless the suite commands a premium price. Culturally, the writer’s desk typically stages the place and end...
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The OU Welcomes Carers
Health, Sports & Psychology

The OU Welcomes Carers

...work and education with caring responsibilities. The Open University helps get carers back into education and this article explains how much support is available...Find out about The Open University's Health and Wellbeing courses. The long-term shift towards an ageing population, lower use of institutional care, improved longevity of those with lifelong disabilities and...
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Should we educate prisoners?
Society, Politics & Law

Should we educate prisoners?

...work in reducing re-offending. According to official sources, 42% of adult prisoners report having been permanently excluded from school. Out of 101,600 learners, under the previous OLASS (Offenders’ Learning and Skills Service) contracts for prison education, only 100 prisoners participated in a full Level 3 course (equivalent to ‘A’ level) in 2014/15, with none...
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Between humanity and space
Science, Maths & Technology

Between humanity and space

...work, in conversation with Ann Grand, a fellow member of AstrobiologyOU...What’s been your journey to astrobiology? If you were to ask my mother, she’d say it was because she didn’t send me to space camp, so I didn't get space out of my system! I’ve loved space since I was a kid. As a teenager, I was sure that I was going to become an atmospheric chemist and study...
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Article 5 mins
What is a confidence and supply government?
Society, Politics & Law

What is a confidence and supply government?

...working coalition with any single minor party. In such a scenario, a minority government could be formed and kept in office through what is known as a confidence-and-supply agreement with one or more of the minor parties. As the title suggests, a confidence-and-supply agreement has two distinct strands. By convention, in order to remain in office, a government must retain...
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