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Environment and Sustainable Development - Student Hub Live's Brexit Special
Nature & Environment

Environment and Sustainable Development - Student Hub Live's Brexit Special

...social and even religious backgrounds of its member states. Enthusiasts say the EU’s ability to legislate for 28 nations has enabled it to take a global lead in combating pollution and promoting renewable energy, and that the UK’s membership has allowed it to drive international action on conservation and climate change, whereas opponents argue that many of the EU’s...
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Video 25 mins
Expert insight: Amazonian challenges and policy responses
Nature & Environment

Expert insight: Amazonian challenges and policy responses

...emerge out of the experience of Dr Andrea Berardi, a Lecturer in Environmental Information Systems at The Open University. He is a co-investigator on Project COBRA. COBRA is researching ways to integrate community solutions within policies addressing escalating social, economic and environmental crises, through accessible information and communication technologies....
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Article 5 mins
Labour to the marrow: Exploring the party's ethos
Society, Politics & Law

Labour to the marrow: Exploring the party's ethos

...work on culture, who suggested people were shaped by a ‘structure of feeling’: this was ‘as firm and definite as “structure” suggests, yet it operates in the most delicate and least tangible parts of our activity’. With ethos being both structural and constitutive, it provides the lifeblood of institutions and actors, yet has the capacity to interact and...
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Understanding the role of art historians in a changing world
History & The Arts

Understanding the role of art historians in a changing world

...social equality. But what might the future bring? Dr Samuel Shaw from The Open University speaks to experts from the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art and looks at ways in which art historians are responding to a changing world...Transcript ‘Not a lot of people meet the term Art History, or History of Art, at school. It’s not something that’s widely...
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Video 10 mins
OpenLearn choices for YASS students
Health, Sports & Psychology

OpenLearn choices for YASS students

...social care, and Sport and Exercise, the choice you indicated on your form does not restrict your actual study choices. You don’t have to stick to the subjects suggested below, or what you entered on your registration form, you are free to mix and match any combination of subjects and courses, as long as the courses you choose support your study goals. The OpenLearn...
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Is the blue plaque scheme still relevant?
History & The Arts

Is the blue plaque scheme still relevant?

...work or actions have had a notable impact on British life and have helped shape British ‘heritage’. [English Heritage Blue Plaque Commemorating Bertrand Russell]English Heritage Blue Plaque Commemorating Bertrand Russell. But ideas about what constitutes British heritage have altered radically between the second half of the nineteenth century and the early part of the...
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Introducing environmental decision making
Nature & Environment

Introducing environmental decision making

...works Anti-social behaviour inherited What really goes into a nappy? Protests as furnace plan unveiled General Electric doubles spend on green agenda Azerbaijan’s post-industrial hangover Pollutant affects sex chromosome Climate change message for city Greenpeace opposes wind farm plan Biodiversity project gets funding Online campaign seeks fishing ban Protestors...
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Level 3: Advanced 24 hrs
No Pause for Thought? Brexit, Bias and Political Manipulation
Health, Sports & Psychology

No Pause for Thought? Brexit, Bias and Political Manipulation

...work). And Britain hasn’t even left yet. Focusing on the people that will be doing the negotiating, there have been suggestions that the UK negotiating team and European negotiating team have widely different understandings of what Brexit will mean, and how the negotiations should be conducted. Reports of a first meeting have not been optimistic, and a hard Brexit seems...
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