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Terrorism in Europe and beyond: A reading list
Society, Politics & Law

Terrorism in Europe and beyond: A reading list

...social profiling is not already happening, it’s fair to assume that it will and should. It seems difficult to argue that whatever can be done to stop such outrages and threats to social cohesion happening should be done. But the day-to-day tedium of increased security pales into significance to the longer-term consequences of such acts. Governments flounder in the face...
Rio 2016: A Caster Semenya reading list
Health, Sports & Psychology

Rio 2016: A Caster Semenya reading list

...work hard and aim to come back even stronger.” Read at The Guardian: Tearful Lynsey Sharp says rule change makes racing Caster Semenya difficult The rule change Sharp refers to had already split opinion long before athletes had arrived in the stadium. Tests have shown than Caster has a higher level of testosterone than, on average, found in other competitors in the...
Will Scottish politicians have a say over the Brexit Deal?
Society, Politics & Law

Will Scottish politicians have a say over the Brexit Deal?

...social researcher, Catherine Stihler MEP, Alex Neil MSP and Kirsty Hughes, writer and commentator, explore how the individual nations of the United Kingdom may respond to Brexit. They reflect on the results of the referendum in which 62% of Scotish voters opted to remain in the European Union, and on the growing disparity between European politicians and voters across the...
The Future of Language
Languages

The Future of Language

...social and technological changes are likely to transform the way we communicate over the coming decades. Transcript Will machine translation make learning a foreign language redundant? Will a mixture of brain-computer interfaces and artificial intelligence mean that we’ll soon be able to talk to each other via computer-enabled technology? And what will all this mean for...
PodMag October 2016
Society, Politics & Law

PodMag October 2016

...Social Sciences and Arts (FASS) at The Open University...This edition of the PodMag focuses on some exciting new modules currently in development. We hear from Paul Lawrence about the innovative new Level 2 History module on the birth of modern Britain, Helen Kaye talks about the new 3rd level Psychology module where students can undertake their own research, and Catriona...
Supporting children’s learning in primary education today
Education & Development

Supporting children’s learning in primary education today

...work or from the work/volunteering in a primary setting? This OpenLearn course is an adapted extract from the Open University course E103 Learning and teaching in the primary years....Supporting children’s learning in primary education today: Introduction - Welcome to this free course, Supporting children’s learning in primary education today. [Described image] Figure...
Managing and managing people
Money & Business

Managing and managing people

...working environment. They include your job, your organisation, and the people you work with. Then you will need to diagnose what you might do to improve your own managerial performance, and take a first step to improve it. This free course, Managing and managing people, is an adapted extract from the Open University course B628 Managing 1: organisations and...
EU Referendum - Economy
Society, Politics & Law

EU Referendum - Economy

...social arrangements in a similar way. They also argue that the UK could now relinquish its membership without losing any of the advantages of the Single Market. The EU would damage its own living standards, as well as ours, if it put up new barriers against a departing member state, especially its second largest. By joining the European Economic Area (EEA), non-members...