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How are Ethiopian coffee growers responding to climate change?
Science, Maths & Technology

How are Ethiopian coffee growers responding to climate change?

...work would be needed to achieve this if planning starts now.” According to Moat, up to 60 per cent of the country‘s current production area could become unsuitable before the end of the century. Ethiopia, he says, is the world’s 5th largest coffee producer. The crop provides a quarter of export earnings, and approximately 15 million Ethiopians engage in coffee...
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Article 5 mins
Diagramming for development 1: bounding realities
Digital & Computing

Diagramming for development 1: bounding realities

...Working for Water Programme requires. By uniting social goals with ecosystem restoration, and by capitalising on public pressure to provide water to millions of people, WWP has mustered political will, public support and funding at a time of fierce competition among the many social welfare projects visualised by South Africa’s new democratic government. Although success...
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Level 3: Advanced 4 hrs
Decolonising Religious Studies and promoting equality, diversity and inclusion
History & The Arts

Decolonising Religious Studies and promoting equality, diversity and inclusion

...working full-time – and some are studying at full-time intensity as well as having caring responsibilities at home. We also know that a higher-than-average percentage of students on A227 (38% this year) have declared one or more disabilities. Taken together, these issues raised two key questions for the department: What challenges to students and staff may have been...
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Article 25 mins
1722 to 2021 - a history of Scotland's railway
Society, Politics & Law

1722 to 2021 - a history of Scotland's railway

...the development of Scotland's railway industry? Find out in this brief interactive guide to key points in its history. ...Find out more about The Open University's History and Social Sciences courses. The magnificent Glenfinnan Viaduct, built between 1897 and 1901. Click the icons to reveal key events. Click here to view the accessible version of this interactive content...
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Article 5 mins
Stephen Hawking: The tributes
Science, Maths & Technology

Stephen Hawking: The tributes

...work on black holes, which revolutionised our understanding of the universe. Hawking passed away today peacefully at his home in Cambridge, his family confirmed in a statement: We are deeply saddened that our beloved father passed away today. He was a great scientist and an extraordinary man whose work and legacy will live on for many years. His courage and persistence...
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Article 20 mins
Continuity and learning
Education & Development

Continuity and learning

...work. To complete this OpenLearn course you will write a short draft of the key points of the interview and reflect on your own learning biography...This free course, Continuity and learning, has a practical and professional development focus. You will explore interactive dimensions of workplace learning: how people and workplace cultures create formal, informal, planned...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Voices from the Global South: an international field trip
Society, Politics & Law

Voices from the Global South: an international field trip

The following learning is from the Geography strand in The Open University level 1 module D113 ‘Global challenges: social science in action’..._Find out more about The Open University's Geography courses and qualifications. _ This is an invitation to: watch a series of six videos from countries across the Global South as part of the International virtual field trip...
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Article 5 hrs
What is the 2015 Autumn Statement all about?
Society, Politics & Law

What is the 2015 Autumn Statement all about?

...social group most likely to force chancellors into early retirement. The state pension, which takes up 42% of the benefits bill, remains carefully protected, while the Treasury looks for savings from working households whose tax credits absorb less than 14%. The government has been painfully aware for some time that the ability of richer households (working and retired)...
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