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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...
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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...
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Young carers, COVID-19 and physical activity
Health, Sports & Psychology

Young carers, COVID-19 and physical activity

...education. Having to continue education from home may pose additional pressures for the young carers. It is also possible that their caring responsibilities for their parent s) means they have very limited/no parental who would normally help them with ‘home schooling’ is the one they are caring for. For the young carer, participation in PE and school-based sport might...
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A brief history of the ever-changing definition of culture
Health, Sports & Psychology

A brief history of the ever-changing definition of culture

...education – the kind of culture that I am referring to, well, that has proven harder to pin down. Psychologists, philosophers and anthropologists have been arguing about the definition of culture for years, so little old me in my home office in lockdown can perhaps be forgiven for not having the perfect definition, but here goes. The word ‘culture’ itself has French...
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What Human Rights Day means to me
Society, Politics & Law

What Human Rights Day means to me

...education and life experience about human rights? Passion for equality When I was growing up in Africa, through my education, I was familiar with the UDHRs, the 1951 Refugee Convention, the 1967 New York Protocol and the African Union 1969 Refugee Convention. At the age of 9 or 10, my world turned upside down. Having done well in school, my late father organised a trip to...
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Teachers sharing resources online
Education & Development

Teachers sharing resources online

...Education Ltd, the company behind one of the leading examples of such websites – TES Connect. While the unit draws its examples and activities from this site its principles are designed so that they may be applied to others. These include international sites, local sites perhaps provided by regional grids for learning, academy chains or teaching school alliances, or...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Empires: power, resistance, legacies
History & The Arts

Empires: power, resistance, legacies

...education, health, culture, technology, business, land, and wealth transfers. Increasingly reparations in relation to climate justice have also been sought. * restitution The restoration of something that has been lost or stolen. Making amends for injury or loss. Making good. * Scramble for Africa A term used to describe the rapid colonisation of Africa by the major...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
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Education & Development

Succeeding in postgraduate study

...Education programme at the Open University. PAYAM REZAIE And I'm Payam Rezaie. I'm a Reader and the Programme Director for the Science Master's programme at the OU. ERIC ADDAE-KYEREMEH Between us, we have more than 30 years of experience in teaching postgraduate students, producing and leading qualifications across different programmes at the OU and elsewhere. PAYAM...
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Level 3: Advanced 24 hrs