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The inaugural lecture of Professor Edoardo Ongaro, Professor of Public Management
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The inaugural lecture of Professor Edoardo Ongaro, Professor of Public Management

...Can't join in person? Watch the event live online. If you are viewing the event by live stream, please do take the opportunity to have your questions answered by our speakers LIVE during the event by posting in the OpenLearn comments box below this article. Study with the OU: MA in Online and Distance Education Find out more about Professor Edoardo Ongaro’s research...
Non-speaking autism, embodiment, neurodivergence and access to communication therapies and devices
Health, Sports & Psychology

Non-speaking autism, embodiment, neurodivergence and access to communication therapies and devices

...education and ‘life-skills’ training, with access to a limited range of enhanced communication techniques such as PECS (Picture Exchange Communication System) or Makaton sign language. [Thumbs up by two people] Much recent research has focused on differences in motor control experienced by many autistic people; the inability to elicit and/or disinhibit desired...
Critical social work practice
Health, Sports & Psychology

Critical social work practice

...education of social workers, and the regulatory framework that has been imposed from outside, has changed the job of the social worker. The impact of standards on service users A look at how the business of setting of standards feeds through to the service users. Social work in a US school A school social worker talks about her work and how it is managed at the school...
Climate change and renewable energy
Nature & Environment

Climate change and renewable energy

...technologies and other actions, which will include behavioural change, needed to stabilise the global climate...Climate change and renewable energy: 1 The third planet - Why does life exist on Earth but not, apparently, on our neighbouring planets? The Earth is the third planet from the Sun. Its orbit lies between that of Venus, which is closer to the Sun, and that of...
DIY: Measuring latitude and longitude
Society, Politics & Law

DIY: Measuring latitude and longitude

...Educational Publishers Part of the Salters Advanced Chemistry course, which explores the frontiers of research and the applications of contemporary chemistry. For A level and other science courses aimed at 16 to 19-year olds. Fraser A. and Gilchrist I., Starting Science (Book 1), Oxford University Press Part of an integrated science course for the National Curriculum Key...
Stefan Szymanski on the business of football
Money & Business

Stefan Szymanski on the business of football

...technology has changed, the fundamentals of the business model have not. Clubs must risk money by hiring players in the expectation of success in competition – league and cup – which will in turn attract fans. Successful clubs can grow by improving the quality of their squad and by enlarging their stadium. Unsuccessful teams risk financial failure as revenues fail to...
The GOP tries to focus: A guide to the third debate
Society, Politics & Law

The GOP tries to focus: A guide to the third debate

...education; and the financial challenges facing medicare and social security. A few ideas for reform came through on a couple of these issues. At least four candidates – John Kasich, Jeb Bush, Marco Rubio and Chris Christie – suggested social security and medicare could be stabilized through some combination of raising the ages of eligibility, reducing benefits for...
Protest Banners: Women's Suffrage
Society, Politics & Law

Protest Banners: Women's Suffrage

...educated all who saw them, and the argument the women were making about their rights to equality with men, as speakers and voters. However, she was also keen to stress the poetry and splendour of a banner: ‘A banner is a thing to float in the wind, to flicker in the breeze’, she said. It ‘flirts’ its ‘colours for your pleasure’. You do not want to read it, as...