2,489 search results
Scotland’s links with Caribbean slavery
History & The Arts

Scotland’s links with Caribbean slavery

...human rights activist and Open University honorary graduate, Prof Sir Geoff Palmer CD, shares his history and Scotland’s slavery history...The background My mother arrived in London as a Jamaican migrant in 1951. She worked in a range of jobs for less than £4 per week to save the £86 which paid my fare to join her in London in March 1955. I arrived by boat at a...
View article Scotland’s links with Caribbean slavery
Article 5 mins
Robert Burns: a man of his times for today
History & The Arts

Robert Burns: a man of his times for today

...human dignity regardless of rank, title or wealth. The poem ‘The Cotter’s Saturday Night’ was promoted as a model of stoicism and Presbyterian piety for the country’s rural poor to abide by. Yet even in this work there were some subversive stanzas. For example, in one he declared that ‘an honest man’s the noblest work of God’, in contrast to princes and...
View article Robert Burns: a man of his times for today
Article 10 mins
Information security
Science, Maths & Technology

Information security

...resources that have up-to-date information on information security...Information security: 1 Information: the heart of everything with value - In May 2016, Coca-Cola’s shareholders valued the company at almost US $200 billion. Their accountants placed its value at US $24.91 billion (Wolfram Alpha, 2016a). Why the difference? Is this just accountants being prissy? Well,...
View course Information security
Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
What is Manupedia and how do I use it?
Science, Maths & Technology

What is Manupedia and how do I use it?

...resource while they learnt about the principles of materials processing. And it is those self-same datacards that we have translated into this web resource. Naturally we have added some new processes. There is a new section on additive manufacturing processes, which didn’t exist in the 1980s. Meanwhile some of the processes included have become entirely obsolete. We...
View article What is Manupedia and how do I use it?
Article 10 mins
SEND crisis: overdiagnosis - fact or fiction?
Education & Development

SEND crisis: overdiagnosis - fact or fiction?

...resources available. There have been recent suggestions by high profile figures that an overdiagnosis of specific learning difficulties and neurodiversity is to blame. However, the data tells us a different story; in fact, there is a problem with underdiagnosis instead. Is a diagnosis necessary? While a child in the UK doesn’t need a formal diagnosis to access support...
View article SEND crisis: overdiagnosis - fact or fiction?
Article 5 mins
Year of the Ox: Chinese New Year
Languages

Year of the Ox: Chinese New Year

...15 days in total. Celebrate the new year by dipping into some of our fantastic resources on China and Chinese. In addition to those free resources, you may also wish to have look at our newly launched short course in Chinese business culture, starting on 27th February 2021. Happy Niu/New Year! Want to learn some Chinese words and phrases? Explore Chinese culture...
View article Year of the Ox: Chinese New Year
Article 5 mins
Dominic Weston - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Dominic Weston - Earth in Vision

...human being, but that doesn’t mean you’ve got the right to do it. And as I say, that’s not sounding like a cop out. I think if you want to factor it from the ground up, that’s great and you probably have to ask those questions more seriously of yourself if you’re not doing it, but with certain programmes that just is not the expectation, so if you have got a...
View video Dominic Weston - Earth in Vision
Video 30 mins
Mothering at the Margins: Amplifying and validating the voices of Black mothers of autistic children
Education & Development

Mothering at the Margins: Amplifying and validating the voices of Black mothers of autistic children

...resource for their families. Indeed, three of the nine interviewees stated that they had retrained as SEND specialists in order to compensate for the lack of support available for their children and yet even this had not been enough to help them circumnavigate the many barriers to appropriate provision. Key themes that emerged from this ‘tapestry of Black women’s...
View article Mothering at the Margins: Amplifying and validating the voices of Black mothers of autistic children
Article 5 mins