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The hostile environment for immigrants is drawn from a well of taken-for-granted assumptions
Society, Politics & Law

The hostile environment for immigrants is drawn from a well of taken-for-granted assumptions

...become in the UK to claim benefits. Rather than social security, as we used to call it, being a safety net for those in need it has become a bureaucratic means of humiliating individuals whose only crime is to have fallen on hard times. A recent ONS Report gives some idea of the scale of a ‘problem’ created by the Government’s obsession with targets. The Department...
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Workplace Survivor Syndrome
Health, Sports & Psychology

Workplace Survivor Syndrome

...become overwhelmed with the fear that they may be next, they become less productive There is also the effect that employees are working longer hours than before but get less done. They will get their heads down and become invisible in case another round of redundancies is imminent. They will do as they are told, but the commitment to the organisation can be lost, with a...
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Can you predict the outcome of a Brexit deal with a little logic and a bit of arithmetic?
Science, Maths & Technology

Can you predict the outcome of a Brexit deal with a little logic and a bit of arithmetic?

...become so bloody arrogant about it all that no one cares anymore about recognising its special status as a former member state or great power. Especially if it uses as a bargaining chip the threat of a race to the bottom on such policies as corporate taxation, the continent’s willingness to cut it slack will swiftly diminish. This would be freeriding in its purest form...
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Opening up history: the intersections of tobacco consumption and modern war
History & The Arts

Opening up history: the intersections of tobacco consumption and modern war

...OU student (in the early 2000s), on the Social Sciences programme, was formative – I picked up a lot about sociological approaches and ideas, some of which I still use today in my research. 2. What is your specialist area and how did you end up focusing on this? The latter two years of my undergraduate degree coincided with the start of the First World War centenary...
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Climate change and the importance of COP26
Nature & Environment

Climate change and the importance of COP26

...students who will be affected by climate change, let alone the millions of learners using OpenLearn. This climate change page brings together existing OpenLearn content that is directly relevant to climate change which you can study but will also feature a series of weekly articles on different aspects of climate change as seen from the perspective of different...
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Brandio personol: Serennwch a byddwch yn chi
Gain4Growth

Brandio personol: Serennwch a byddwch yn chi

...student smiling on staircase] Boed ydych yn ymgeisio am swyddi, yn creu proffil ar-lein, neu'n cymryd eich cam nesaf i'r byd gwaith, gall deall sut i fynegi eich cryfderau a'ch gwerthoedd eich helpu i greu argraff gadarnhaol. Ymunwch â'n cyflwynydd Cerys wrth i fyfyrwyr roi eu cwestiynau gerbron arbenigwyr diwydiant, recriwtwyr, a gweithwyr proffesiynol sy'n rhannu...
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Visions of protest: graffiti
History & The Arts

Visions of protest: graffiti

...students to contrasting understandings of graffiti. It draws on a wide range of graffiti examples, including mystery zebras in Hackney, fish graffiti in Morecambe, 'tags' in a Milton Keynes underpass, a McDonald's advert and exhibits at a highly established art gallery, the Tate Modern. Students will consider different arguments for and against the perception of graffiti...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
An introduction to social work
Health, Sports & Psychology

An introduction to social work

...become very influential in social work since its integration in the Framework for the Assessment of Children in Need and Their Families (DOH, 2000, 2001). The ecological perspective sees the world as a highly complex web of interacting systems which are mutually dependent (perhaps the food chain is the best-known example). When applied to social work, human society is...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs