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Free School Meals: An OpenLearn reading list
Education & Development

Free School Meals: An OpenLearn reading list

...families received Working Tax Credits and earned less than £16,040 (the extended entitlement pilot). The National Centre for Social Work picked through the results: Impact on take-up of free school meals Most pupils in the universal pilot areas took up the offer of free school meals. Around nine in 10 primary school pupils were taking at least one school meal per week by...
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Promoting equality through the Arts
History & The Arts

Promoting equality through the Arts

...family, music, and the digital images that they carry in their pockets make them feel ‘at home’: “My family is where my home is and also I think the language and the accent for me means home because it's so distinctive wherever you go.” “When we were first married we lived in five houses in about four years. We had one big rug, very little else, but wherever we...
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The Balakot Earthquake: Ten years on
Science, Maths & Technology

The Balakot Earthquake: Ten years on

...families of the dead and injured were compensated, and grants given for house reconstruction outside the red zone. But far fewer people told us they’d received help to rebuild their livelihoods. Although commercial activity started again days after the devastation, local entrepreneurs described to us how they had initially struggled to recapitalise their businesses. In...
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Health and wellbeing in the ancient world
History & The Arts

Health and wellbeing in the ancient world

...family to use it had. We can see that little picture of a heart comes up, which is very cute. Just like a sort of heart you use in love, actually. And there you go-- 140 over 84 for blood pressure, pulse of 62. So you know your numbers, and you can adjust your life accordingly. But in the ancient world, numbers really don't play a part. Let's think about lovesickness,...
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Level 1: Introductory 18 hrs
Practising systems thinking in practice (STiP)
Science, Maths & Technology

Practising systems thinking in practice (STiP)

...histories. Family members may hate each other and love each other, sometimes both together; they agree and they disagree. They do what it takes to keep going. Even when families fall apart, members create ways of dealing with each other. Living together is an important enterprise, whether that consists in the search for food and shelter or in the quest for a viable...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Beginners’ Chinese: a taster course
Languages

Beginners’ Chinese: a taster course

...history books by chance. He was working in a New York bank when the communists took power, and he chose to return home to help rebuild his country's economy. Languages were only a hobby, but with few experts in the field, the government insisted he should take charge. ZHOU YOUGUANG: The government thought this is a very important work. At that time more Chinese were...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Budget 2017: Instant reactions
Money & Business

Budget 2017: Instant reactions

...family on low earnings or out of work will see the introduction of cuts in tax credits or Universal Credit of £10.45 per week. In larger families with more than two children, there will also be a cut in child tax credit of £53.30 per week for each child after the second one. And for all working-age people getting benefits or credits, Osborne’s freeze in their level of...
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Essential for what? A global social reproduction view on the re-organisation of work during the Covid-19 pandemic
Society, Politics & Law

Essential for what? A global social reproduction view on the re-organisation of work during the Covid-19 pandemic

...of the public. With an ethos of inclusivity and respect for diverse realms of economic expertise, the seminar series will bring together those working on current challenges across a broad range of research interests: Social Policy, Personal Finance, Innovation, Macroeconomics, Development Economics, Health, Inequality and Employment, Philosophy and History of Economics....
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