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Le Corbusier
History & The Arts

Le Corbusier

...world for good. Only architecture was failing to embrace the future, as new buildings continued to ape various historical styles. In 1908, Le Corbusier went to work with Auguste Perret, the French architect who had pioneered the use of reinforced concrete, and then Peter Behrens, the German exponent of 'industrial design'. Behrens admired the engineer's ethic of mass...
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Teaching reading: what are our long term goals?
Education & Development

Teaching reading: what are our long term goals?

...world’ and are motivated to do so. The complex factors which interact to develop young readers’ identities and the myriad of elements which characterise their experiences are inescapably ignored in such surveysHowever in the influential PISA and PIRLS studies which shape ministerial perspectives and drive policy making in many countries, reading is framed more as a...
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The Bottom Line Expert Opinion: Sponsorship
Money & Business

The Bottom Line Expert Opinion: Sponsorship

...world cup and Olympics. Mark Doldge investigates this phenemomen in his article “A festival of nationalism: the World Cup allows sponsors to divide and conquer”. Nevertheless, sponsorship can also be a quite exciting positive force for social change. In particular, the innovative use of sponsorship can help to resolve and bring substantive attention to seriously...
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Is New Day a false dawn for the print industry?
History & The Arts

Is New Day a false dawn for the print industry?

...World. And you wonder what Trinity Mirror shareholders make of the move and a time when the company is aiming to save £20m this financial year and revenues from its existing print operation were down 8% at the company’s last trading update in December 2015. From every aspect, this looks an unlikely commercial prospect if you study the cold hard economics. And yet…...
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Irish Women’s Poetry: the Next Generation
OpenLearn Ireland

Irish Women’s Poetry: the Next Generation

...world. Explore how this has impacted Irish women poets writing today...Introduction It would be impossible to provide an exhaustive account of the younger generation of Irish women’s poets, or to encapsulate the huge range and variety of styles, forms and themes in which they are working. This article will focus on three representative figures whose work shares similar...
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Systems thinking: a select glossary
Money & Business

Systems thinking: a select glossary

...world. Transformation Changes, modelled as an interconnected set of activities which convert an input to an output which may leave the system (a 'product') or become an input to another transformation. Trap A way of thinking which is inappropriate for the context or issue being explored. Worldview That view of the world which enables each observer to attribute meaning to...
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Why the UK can't take business support for the EU for granted
Society, Politics & Law

Why the UK can't take business support for the EU for granted

...world’s third-largest construction equipment manufacturer, is clearly not one of those plucky soldiers. Lord Bamford, who is also a Conservative Party donor, believes the UK has nothing to fear from a Brexit, that it can exist on its own in the world and does not necessarily need to negotiate as part of a 28-member block. In fact, JCB is not the only business that views...
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Putting algae and seaweed on the menu could help save our seafood
Science, Maths & Technology

Putting algae and seaweed on the menu could help save our seafood

...world grows richer will require 60% more food by the middle of the century. But around 90% of the world’s fish stocks are already seriously depleted. Pollution and increasing levels of carbon dioxide (CO₂) in the atmosphere, which is making the oceans warmer and more acidic, are also a significant threat to marine life. There is potential to increase ocean food...
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