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10 flabbergasting facts you'll find on OpenLearn
Miscellaneous

10 flabbergasting facts you'll find on OpenLearn

...managed to leave the body. Surprise, surprise: while bloodletting could help, the best cure was having sex. Sex would open up the body and move the retained blood around. It’s interesting that the idea of a “disease” worked for those who believed in the hymen as a barrier, and for those who didn’t. The latter thought that the problem was a different sort of...
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Article 5 mins
“Pobal Teanga Faoi Bhláth”: why Good Friday Agreement affects the Irish language
Languages

“Pobal Teanga Faoi Bhláth”: why Good Friday Agreement affects the Irish language

...to the fore of efforts to secure language rights in the north of Ireland in the last decade. He is Communications Manager with Conradh na Gaeilge (the Gaelic League) and is Chair of Irish Language Community Group Gaelphobal Ard Mhacha Theas in South Armagh. Find out more To discover why the Good Friday Agreement matters in a wider context, why not try the courses below?...
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Aberdulais Falls: a case study in Welsh heritage
History & The Arts

Aberdulais Falls: a case study in Welsh heritage

...management of a site such as Aberdulais Falls by its very nature highlights conflicting interests and tensions. Some relate to problems caused by the decision-making process itself, which can be slow and has to accommodate a range of interests of the various client bodies. For example, when a new information centre was to be built on the site, the client bodies involved...
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Level 1: Introductory 2 hrs
The winding garden path: Radicalism amongst the flower beds
History & The Arts

The winding garden path: Radicalism amongst the flower beds

...managed by local authorities, often at threat and sold off at times when local authorities are short of money. So I think allotments pose a number of problems in that they allow people to garden. When I had an allotment for a short time, [I] took a class of kind of twenty-odd twelve year-olds down so they could pull out a carrot and see what it was like. Laurie Taylor:...
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EPQs: designing your research question
Education & Development

EPQs: designing your research question

...managed. It might be that you enjoy finding things out, asking a question no one has asked before and uncovering answers that no one else has found. All of these are excellent reasons for undertaking an EPQ. Understanding why you want to do a research project will help you in your first task: designing a research question. Designing your research question. The research...
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Race, ethnicity and crime
Society, Politics & Law

Race, ethnicity and crime

...managers of organisations to recognise and take effective steps to address racist practices and behaviours. However, the significance of this intervention (and the subsequent amendment of the 1976 Race Relations Act, 2000) was lost in outbreaks of sustained urban conflict mainly involving young Muslim men, far right political groups, and the police across northern towns...
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Level 3: Advanced 1 hr
'Keeping it Real': The Experiences of Black Youth beyond Criminal (In)Justice Statistics
Society, Politics & Law

'Keeping it Real': The Experiences of Black Youth beyond Criminal (In)Justice Statistics

...management and delivery of children and youth services, not all beleaguered practitioners – whether in housing, youth offending teams, or children and youth services – are happy about their new role as ‘junior partners’ to the police and other justice sector agencies. They don’t learn, and like they continue to target and be heavy handed with our youth, you know...
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Black Women and State-Sanctioned Police Violence: The Case of Sarah Reed
Education & Development

Black Women and State-Sanctioned Police Violence: The Case of Sarah Reed

...manage Sarah’s medication’ (Inquest, 2017). It was known that Sarah had been exhibiting psychotic disorder, bipolar, schizophrenia and bulimia, yet monitoring had been reduced, which gave her the opportunity to strangle herself in her cell. She spent her final days alone in a dirty cell without access to contact with her family. The tragic sequence of events that led...
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Article 15 mins