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On Brexit, Hamsters & Hungry Pythons!
Society, Politics & Law

On Brexit, Hamsters & Hungry Pythons!

...data. Both the UK Statistics Authority and the Treasury Select Committee have disputed the amount. The BBC ‘Reality Check’ said of the claim: ‘We’ve said it before, and we’ll say it again – the UK does not send £350m a week to Brussels.’ Once rebates, regional aid and research income are taken into account, the figure is closer to £161 million a week. So...
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Article 10 mins
Europa: Jupiter’s ocean world
Science, Maths & Technology

Europa: Jupiter’s ocean world

...In the coming years, data returned from ESA’s JUICE and NASA’s Europa Clipper missions will be able to shed some light on whether or not Europa might be habitable for life. Until then, space scientists, including those in AstrobiologyOU, use computer modelling or create Europa-like environments in the laboratory to understand its environment and potential for life....
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Fundamentals of accounting
Money & Business

Fundamentals of accounting

...data the production of useful information from that data and its presentation to stakeholders of a business such as owners, lenders and the tax office. In today’s electronically enabled business world most organisations produce their financial accounts using a computer program known as an accounting package. Such accounting software produces, at the click of a button,...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
'Keeping it Real': The Experiences of Black Youth beyond Criminal (In)Justice Statistics
Society, Politics & Law

'Keeping it Real': The Experiences of Black Youth beyond Criminal (In)Justice Statistics

...data as of 30 June 2013 showed that there were 10,000 black men in prison, and this is four times their number in the general population. Youth Justice figures for England and Wales during 2012-13 showed that 21 per cent of young people (under 18) held in custody in the secure estate were from a Black ethnic background, even though they represented only eight per cent on...
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Supporting female performance in sport and fitness Badge icon
Health, Sports & Psychology

Supporting female performance in sport and fitness

...data that we see is how little research is actually done on women. So when you look at research that’s done exclusively on females, in 2015, a survey was done that found only 4% of the research done in the top three sport and exercise science journals was done exclusively on females. And that means that things like the menstrual cycle, and breast health, and pelvic...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
The People on the Notes: Adam Smith
History & The Arts

The People on the Notes: Adam Smith

...analysis of economic mechanisms and of the economic policy of nations, at a time when economics did not yet exist as a self-standing discipline. However, Smith was only interested in economics as part of his larger concern for the contemporary development of European society. The recent progress of manufacturing and trade were in the process of deeply transforming...
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Learning to swim in murky seas: Exploitation of the Electorate via Social Media
Health, Sports & Psychology

Learning to swim in murky seas: Exploitation of the Electorate via Social Media

...analysis and economic argument. As Andrew Mullen from Northumbria University discusses, the leave and remain campaigns employed similar strategies, but differed in their ability to connect with voters via social media. In his words, “The critical difference, […], was that the leave campaign was much more successful at targeting than the Remain campaign. Although the...
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Brexit: On the vote in Wales
Society, Politics & Law

Brexit: On the vote in Wales

...analysis of the British labour movement, it has always been ignored by the Labour intellectuals who serve as the gatekeepers of Wales’ official ‘story’. This version of Wales – which has to be contextualised within the history of the British labour movement and the British working class more generally – may be unpalatable, but one cannot really understand the...
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