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Is Brexit going to unseat English as the lingua franca?
Languages

Is Brexit going to unseat English as the lingua franca?

...history also shows that a transnational language does not necessarily go into decline with the decline of the empire that spread the language. Indeed, English has shown no signs of decline since the end of the British Empire in the mid 20th-century; on the contrary, global English language learning has gone from strength to strength since then. When an empire dies, the...
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How did a natural disaster take us closer to Brexit?
Languages

How did a natural disaster take us closer to Brexit?

...history and 4.9 million barrel crude were released into the environment. In addition to the huge immediate damage, long-term effects are as yet unknown but are likely to include oil remaining in the food chain for generations to come. The disaster was the fault of BP (short for “British Petroleum”), a multinational corporation headquartered in the UK operating the oil...
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Your journey of learning and discovery with us
Education & Development

Your journey of learning and discovery with us

...history, language and culture. Links to key OpenLearn Hubs – such as our Mental health and wellbeing hub. OpenLearn Create There are some extremely useful resources on OpenLearn Create which may support learners who need a gentler introduction to online learning, including the following: Everyday computer skills: developed in partnership with LEAD to equip people with...
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Are schools the best place for children to learn?
Education & Development

Are schools the best place for children to learn?

...history of practice, schools tend to spend a lot of time focusing on mechanistic matters. The purpose of education seems to be subsumed by processes and structures, dominated by an overemphasis on what might be seen as component parts of any wider goal (e.g. types of behaviour, grades, particular bits of subject knowledge, certain skills, school identity). Consequently,...
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Impossible Peace 2: "The taigs are getting everything"
OpenLearn Ireland

Impossible Peace 2: "The taigs are getting everything"

...history of the United Kingdom and linked the loyalist organisations to the violence. Forty-eight hours later, the government ‘specified’ the UVF and Red Hand Commando, meaning their ceasefires were no longer recognised. In this phase of the process, the unionists and the loyalists were outside the tent. The key events of this period were matters of negotiation between...
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The Tulsa Race Massacre
Society, Politics & Law

The Tulsa Race Massacre

...history. Key documents were destroyed, and it became something of a taboo subject in Tulsa. The silencing and denial were profoundly harmful, preventing healing or holding those who did wrong to account. 75 years later, in 1996, things started to change. A new public inquiry (which reported in 2001) was launched, corroborating the claim of state complicity with white...
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Pathways To Success in Higher Education
Education & Development

Pathways To Success in Higher Education

...history, literature, music and religions. This pathway should give you more understanding of the world we live in and how we got to where we are. Try out our Arts and Humanities 'tasters' here. Interested? Head over to the Arts & Humanities Pathway. Social Science and Psychology The Social Science and Psychology Pathway tackles some of the key question in the study of...
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Animal-Computer Interaction and dogs
Digital & Computing

Animal-Computer Interaction and dogs

...history, so far the discipline of Interaction Design (ID) has only concerned itself with designing interactive systems for humans and animal technology has seldom taken the user-centred approach developed by the discipline of ID. However, this is now changing, as the emerging discipline of Animal-Computer Interaction (ACI) is expanding the design of interactive systems...
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