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Rio+20 - United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development
Nature & Environment

Rio+20 - United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development

...world attracting members of governments, the private sector as well as NGO’s amongst the thousands of guests who attend. The primary reason being to develop strategies to reduce poverty, advance social equity and ensure environmental protection as we look to the future. In this collection Open University academics reflect on its progress and prospects, and demonstrate...
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Queen (and Slave) Of The Sciences
Science, Maths & Technology

Queen (and Slave) Of The Sciences

...world go round...[The number eight painted on the ground] In a game of word association what would you follow ‘mathematics’ with? Terror, boredom, difficult, nerds, geeks or history? I wonder how many people would associate mathematics with ‘everything’, ‘everywhere’, ‘life the universe and everything’ (not one word, I know). For some reason the world of...
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Rights and justice in international relations
Society, Politics & Law

Rights and justice in international relations

...world of whose making?...Rights and justice in international relations: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: understand the different interpretations of internationally recognised notions of rights and justice give examples of implementing justice in an international sphere investigate questions in international studies analyse the...
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Level 3: Advanced 13 hrs
Pluralism in Economics: inequalities, innovation, environment
Society, Politics & Law

Pluralism in Economics: inequalities, innovation, environment

...world. Thus, you may question whether a decline in the wage share is bad if workers’ incomes are growing as they are getting a rising share of profits, e.g., via their pension funds or rents because of home ownership. While it is true that workers living within countries with a functional pension system receive a monthly transfer in the form of a pension in old-age, in...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
Climate justice for the next generation
Education & Development

Climate justice for the next generation

...world has human rights? CHILD: Even children have rights. CHILD: Human rights are the things that every person should have. CHILD: Or be able to do. CHILD: To live a good life. CHILD: With respect and security. CHILD: Every person in the whole world has these rights. CHILD: Because each of us is born equal. CHILD: In dignity and right. CHILD: Because children are young...
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Level 2: Intermediate 7 hrs
Rugby tackles homophobia
Health, Sports & Psychology

Rugby tackles homophobia

...World Cup in the news currently, the shining a light on the sport of rugby shows it appearing to be making strides to tackle homophobia in sport. The most recent TV advert from Guinness stars Gareth Thomas telling his story about coming out to his team. A longer video features an interview with him about how he felt as a gay man in the world of professional rugby. The Out...
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Are women under-represented at tech accelerators?
Money & Business

Are women under-represented at tech accelerators?

...world’s most dynamic start-up clusters and the most prominent start-up ecosystem in Europe. But, as this takes place, there’s a huge need to address the industry’s gender imbalance. My research into tech accelerator programmes has found many (often unwittingly) cater for men over women. [A talk at a 2009 YCombinator event] A 2009 YCombinator event You only need to...
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Is Brexit going to unseat English as the lingua franca?
Languages

Is Brexit going to unseat English as the lingua franca?

...world, destroyed itself in fantasies that it was being colonized in turn" — historians. — Ted Scheinman (@Ted_Scheinman) June 24, 2016 Of course, this spectacular act of self-harming is more like a murder-suicide in that the damage done will not be contained to Britain and affect the rest of the world in ways that we cannot yet know but that look distinctly unpleasant...
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