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Selling Empire: The Empire Marketing Board
History & The Arts

Selling Empire: The Empire Marketing Board

...changed hands, but was still maintained there. Influential EMB personnel such as Sir Stephen Tallents also took their ideals and experience to new bodies, such as the General Post Office. Why did a power that spanned a quarter of the globe need to persuade people to ‘Buy Empire’? Despite other countries increasing tariffs on British exports, Britain had failed to...
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Evolutions in Education: The OU Education Conference
Education & Development

Evolutions in Education: The OU Education Conference

...changing landscape for education and the importance of life-long learning for students. She too highlighted the role of The Open University in reaching students who cannot for various reasons access other forms of Higher Education. Ben Lewis, the Director of The Open University in Wales also spoke of life-long learning within the evolving educational landscape in Wales....
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Trump - an appeal for enlightenment
Society, Politics & Law

Trump - an appeal for enlightenment

...changes lead to feelings of insecurity and fear about the future. Meanwhile, the rich are seen to become richer with the poorest struggling to make ends meet. Successive US governments have failed to address this. Instead of investing in industry, education, health care and addressing the issues in deprived communities, campaigning within US elections is often determined...
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How a new First Minister of Wales is appointed
Society, Politics & Law

How a new First Minister of Wales is appointed

...changed its First Minister – the head of the Welsh Government – immediately after an election. Instead, first ministers have always changed mid-term, or in other words, between elections. @@PLUGINFILE@@/image-slider-1685%20%283%29.h5p Usually, a change of first minister happens when the previous incumbent has indicated their intention to resign. Following that...
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How Bitcoin works
Digital & Computing

How Bitcoin works

...changed, even by the smallest amount, the two hashes will be different and it would be obvious the block had been tampered with. Changing the contents of a block far back in the block chain not only creates a conflict with that block’s hash, but all blocks that follow on from it. And it’s not just my computer checking the hashes, millions of Bitcoin users are...
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Is your social media use impacting your future?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Is your social media use impacting your future?

...changing with new sites and apps being added to the offering. In 2019, the most popular social networks worldwide were Facebook, YouTube, WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger and WeChat (Statista, 2019). You might have heard of the following types of platform: Wikis such as Wikipedia. Blogs such as WordPress and Tumblr. Microblogs such as Twitter. Video and media platforms such...
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Women in sport: stories from grassroots cricket
Health, Sports & Psychology

Women in sport: stories from grassroots cricket

...changing facilities. Becoming part of the established 'club' Most of the grassroots women’s teams are connected in some way to an existing men’s cricket club. People I spoke to from such clubs often referred to the difficulties that women’s teams faced integrating into the wider club that they were notionally part of. One County Development Officer, responsible for...
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Identifying Values – Finding the Things that Matter the Most to You for the Way You Live and Work
Health, Sports & Psychology

Identifying Values – Finding the Things that Matter the Most to You for the Way You Live and Work

...change and prioritise values depending on the opportunities or constraints present. Therefore, values are individual to you, so put aside thoughts about anyone else’s expectations or how you ‘should’ behave. Being honest with yourself about values that are authentic to you, then living by these, will help inform choices that improve your life, even if they don’t...
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