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How might Brexit shape the Scottish economy?
Society, Politics & Law

How might Brexit shape the Scottish economy?

...researcher, Kirsty Hughes, writer and commentator, Catherine Stihler MEP and Alex Neil MSP explore how the 43% of goods and services exported to the EU might be affected post-Brexit. They talk trade deals, tariffs, and discuss how withdrawing from the EU's free movement of people laws may impact Scottish-based businesses. Understanding Brexit Copyright information: Image:...
Question Bridge
Society, Politics & Law

Question Bridge

...by artists and cultural organisations and encourages people to participate through an online platform and special events. Question Bridge is local and national in orientation and concerned with anti-discrimination, equality and social justice, education, research, knowledge production and information access and media democratisation. It began in 1996 and is ongoing....
Dr Manish Patel and Dr Stephen Lewis on landing on Mars
Science, Maths & Technology

Dr Manish Patel and Dr Stephen Lewis on landing on Mars

...and by 16:00 (BST) on Wednesday 19th October 2016, Schiaparelli should have landed on the red planet, marking the first successful European mission to the surface of Mars. You can find out more about the OU's involvement with this on our research website or look into the fascinating world of space by using the hashtag #OUSpaceMonth. Find out more about the red planet...
The Oldest Generation
Society, Politics & Law

The Oldest Generation

...research that may well help in future policy making. The Oldest Generation is Project 7 of Timescapes, the first major qualitative longitudinal study of older people to be funded in the UK. This audio recording samples parts of the diaries from members of The Oldest Generation project, who have been asked to document their day to day routines, with the aim of showing how...
Archive course extract: Attachment theory
Education & Development

Archive course extract: Attachment theory

...children come to develop strong attachments to people and objects, to the extent that being separated causes upset? ...This extract is from a course no longer in presentation at The Open University, and is online for archive purposes only. A longer, more recent course extract is now available: please visit the new OpenLearn course Attachment In The Early Years, which can...
An unheard voice from a Chinese teacher
Languages

An unheard voice from a Chinese teacher

...children’s education, but they also take responsibility for their children’s academic success. They believe that they have the obligations and responsibilities to help build their children’s success in education. They take their children’s academic failure as their own responsibilities because they feel that they did ......
Geometry
Science, Maths & Technology

Geometry

...centre O on the vertex. The angle can then be read straight from the scale. Here = 40° (not 140°). Be careful to use the correct scale. In this case the angle extends from the line OY up to the line OX, so use the scale that shows OY as 0° – the outer scale in this instance. In the above example, one of the arms of the angle is horizontal. However, sometimes you may...
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Supporting university students with a mental health condition
Health, Sports & Psychology

Supporting university students with a mental health condition

...research identified academic teachers and teaching practices as well as student services and support as key to student success (Baik et al., 2019) . [Described image] Although the data outlined in the first section demonstrates a high prevalence of students with a mental health condition, Pereira et al. (2019) found that up to 50 per cent of students who identified as...