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International Development: microcredit and migration
Science, Maths & Technology

International Development: microcredit and migration

...working to expand the contribution that African migrants abroad can make to Africa’s development. Finally, a Chinese "beer pioneer" and China trade experts discuss China’s membership of the World Trade Organisation. To complete the album, Dr Helen Yanacopulos of The Open University's Development Policy and Practice unit explains the choice of some of the case studies,...
Economics explains discrimination in the labour market
Society, Politics & Law

Economics explains discrimination in the labour market

...working conditions of secondary labour market jobs. Competition alone will not do this, nor will it remove the barriers that workers trapped in such jobs face in getting into better jobs. Institutionalists would be likely to advocate direct government intervention, possibly by promoting affirmative action or tackling low pay through equal pay legislation. In this case, as...
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Education & Development

Supporting children's mental health and wellbeing

...working with children or are you a parent or carer? This free course, Supporting children’s mental health and wellbeing, is designed to give insight into the factors that are contributing to our youngest citizens’ poor mental health; examining factors from a national and global perspective. By the end of the course you will have gained knowledge about strategies and...
Saving capitalists from themselves?
Society, Politics & Law

Saving capitalists from themselves?

...working" (a pun on the Conservative election poster "Labour isn't working") at the G20 Meltdown protest in London on 1 April 2009] For the first time, one per cent of the world population controls more than half of the world's wealth, according to a Credit Suisse study released in December. And it is mark of our times that Credit Suisse, which has contributed to the...
Could volunteering be bad for our health?
Society, Politics & Law

Could volunteering be bad for our health?

...work like Arnstein’s ‘ladder of participation’ and the World Health Organisation’s Alma Ata declaration, in which they declared that health systems should create opportunities for citizens to help shape decision about health-care, and that citizens should take them up. Volunteering suffers from similar definitional uncertainty but one excellent overview places it...
Toyota diffusion (TD)
Science, Maths & Technology

Toyota diffusion (TD)

...working tool steel (Fe–5Cr) D2 ASP30, produced by hot isostatic compaction. The coating grows by reaction of the carbide-former and carbon atoms diffusing from the matrix. The hardness of the vanadium carbide layer is in excess of 3000 VPN, which is higher than most other similar processes. Very hard carbide layers provide excellent wear resistance to steel and, in some...
Bird ringing in Bog Meadows
OpenLearn Ireland

Bird ringing in Bog Meadows

...works in Bog Meadows, a city nature reserve a few metres from the M1 motorway in Northern Ireland...Bird ringing is a world-wide method of finding out where birds migrate and how population levels change. See here how it is done on the Bog Meadows, a city nature reserve a few metres from the M1 motorway near Belfast. Video Transcript AIDAN CREAN: There’s many many...
Investigating environmental futures through speculative design
Society, Politics & Law

Investigating environmental futures through speculative design

...tree stories’. The boxes could, among other things, facilitate creative memory work by inviting users to collect and curate objects that illuminate human-tree entanglements, such as obsolete sensors attached to exfoliated bark. [Bio-sensing jewellery] Bio-sensing jewellery: headpiece (left) and brooch (right). Photo by Bart van Overbeeke. Over time, the users of Empathy Tree will have become receptive to haptic and ......