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Rwanda: an open and shut case?
Society, Politics & Law

Rwanda: an open and shut case?

...article considers how this question was decided by the UK’s Supreme Court and why that decision did not ultimately resolve the issue...Case open In December 2022, a case was brought by several asylum seekers in the High Court to challenge the lawfulness of the Rwanda policy. Among other things, they argued that Rwanda could not be considered a safe country. In support...
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A Clockwork Orange: ultraviolence, Russian spies and fake news
Languages

A Clockwork Orange: ultraviolence, Russian spies and fake news

...Nixonian, “with no shred of optimism in it”. He concluded: “America prefers the other, more violent, ending. Who am I to say America is wrong? It’s all a matter of choice.” [The Conversation] Philip Seargeant, Senior Lecturer in Applied Linguistics, The Open University This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article....
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Humphry Davy, laughing gas and the era of self-experimentation
History & The Arts

Humphry Davy, laughing gas and the era of self-experimentation

...with breathtaking speed. His dazzling lectures there would make him the public face of science for the coming generation, and the nitrous oxide experiments would become an emblem of the heroic commitment to discovery that it would demand of its practitioners in the new century. This article was originally published by The Public Domain Review under a CC-BY-SA licence...
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Wimbledon - The Championships
Health, Sports & Psychology

Wimbledon - The Championships

...articles on women in sport, such as the challenges faced when returning to compete after becoming a mother. Anyone for tennis? Take a look at more tennis related content, including a focus on the Williams sisters and advances in sporting technology. Game(s). Set. Match Coach an athlete to sporting glory in our Medal Quest game, or discover your perfect sport in our...
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Valuing death
Health, Sports & Psychology

Valuing death

...article explores...This content is associated with The Open University's Health and Social Care qualifications. Death is part of life and is something we all need to face; not only our own death, but the deaths of those around us. Yet many of us are unprepared for this major event in our lives. The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed us all to more deaths. However, those deaths...
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FabLab Nepal: creative learning as a way towards equality
Science, Maths & Technology

FabLab Nepal: creative learning as a way towards equality

...higher education studies or discover and pursue their interests (Thapa, 2015; Mottaleb et al., 2019). The COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns further exacerbated the discrepancy between private and public school children due to the requirement of online learning platforms unavailable to CG schools and students (Dawadi et al., 2020; Devkota, 2021). Hence, intervention in the post-pandemic period was seen as ......
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Commemorating Lord Byron on the streets of London
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Commemorating Lord Byron on the streets of London

...article criticising him for writing two poems on his recent separation from his wife, which he thought ‘will amuse you’. The consequences of this brief exchange were to influence the course of the rest of Claire’s life. [A stone memorial plaque for Allegra, daughter of Lord Byron and Claire Clairmont. It bears her birth and death dates: 13.1.18]A memorial plaque for...
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Psychological drama: Writing fictional crime drama for a forensic psychology course
Health, Sports & Psychology

Psychological drama: Writing fictional crime drama for a forensic psychology course

...article [link to be insterted]. Back to the dilemma. I have no experience of creative writing (beyond winning a Blue Peter poetry competition when I was 8), but the investigations here, focusing on interviews with witnesses, are supposed to provide an insight into real police investigations rather than be an exercise in page-turner plots and cliff-hangers. So, first step...
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