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Women and the fight to reclaim higher education
Society, Politics & Law

Women and the fight to reclaim higher education

...public discourse. Waste and recycling workers made headlines when they went on strike over pay and conditions in Glasgow during COP26 in November 2021; then in Edinburgh during the annual International Festival in August 2022. Across Scotland, the railways and postal service have seen frequent disruption as workers are no longer willing to accept poverty wages while...
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Defining your research methodology
Education & Development

Defining your research methodology

...health, social care setting or in the field? Will it be conducted online, offline, or both? Then, outline your research methodology, keeping in mind that your research questions will influence the methodology you choose. You will want to demonstrate that your methodology is systematic and – for certain studies - can be replicated by other researchers in similar...
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How did Trump win the White House?
Society, Politics & Law

How did Trump win the White House?

...public eye for over 30 years, which meant that he entered the race with nearly 100 percent name recognition. Trump’s longstanding status as a celebrity enabled him to garner relentless media attention from the moment he entered the race. One study found that by May 2016 Trump had received the equivalent of US$3 billion in free advertising from the media coverage his...
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Free School Meals: An OpenLearn reading list
Education & Development

Free School Meals: An OpenLearn reading list

...publication was produced annually and reflected the proportion of young people from the top three and bottom four socio-economic classes who participated for the first time in full-time higher education. The publication also included an annex that reproduced some of the other published measures of widening participation (WP). One of these WP measures, “the FSM...
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An introduction to European crime fiction since 1945
Health, Sports & Psychology

An introduction to European crime fiction since 1945

...public. In France, this influence was seen in the publication of the popular Série Noire crime fiction series. Initially, these were translations of American hard-boiled detective stories, but publishers soon realised that there was a market for original fiction in a similar style written by French authors. Reconstruction was accompanied by a long economic boom in...
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28 July 2005: 4 o'clock and all is well
OpenLearn Ireland

28 July 2005: 4 o'clock and all is well

...public events followed; conversations on progress within the peace process. [The full text of IRA statement from 28 July 2005. See paragraph below for full transcript.]IRA statement from 28 July, 2005. View the full-size version Text transcript Oglaigh na h-Eireann The leadership of Oglaigh na hEireann has formally ordered an end to the armed campaign. This will take...
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Marketing communications as a strategic function
Money & Business

Marketing communications as a strategic function

...public relations), and compartmentalised thinking amongst both clients and their agencies, have acted as a barrier to a holistic approach to the consumer. Schultz, et al. (1994) point out that planning marketing communications as if the different ways of reaching the consumer exist in isolation is essentially an organisation-centred view of marketing. A customer-centred...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
Promoting the effective management of children’s pain – part 2
Health, Sports & Psychology

Promoting the effective management of children’s pain – part 2

...Health Commission on children’s pain, calls for parents/carers to be involved in decisions relating to pain management in their infants and children, so that their views and values are considered. Parent participants in Simons and Plowright Pepper’s study (2024) described hospitalisation as ‘stressful, bewildering, quite frustrating’ and that often ‘parents can...
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Level 2: Intermediate 4 hrs