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Banks as utilities and the future of payments
Money & Business

Banks as utilities and the future of payments

...health records, your education, your credit rating, etc, etc. And whenever you engage with a financial institution, a government, a company, you decide which bits of that information you’re going to share. But it’s not the case that the bank has your banking information, or that the government just has your passport information. No, you have access to that and you can...
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The Good Friday Agreement - 20 Year Anniversary
OpenLearn Ireland

The Good Friday Agreement - 20 Year Anniversary

...health, education and employment committees. She was the co-founder and leader of the Northern Ireland Women’s Coalition political party and represented South Belfast as a Member of the Legislative Assembly. At the request of the British and Irish governments, she acted as Chairperson of the peace agreement’s implementation committee on human rights. Monica was...
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How can honour killings be stopped?
Health, Sports & Psychology

How can honour killings be stopped?

...health bodies. Despite the government’s promise to publish guidance or statement of expectations, cash-strapped local authorities are unable to adequately respond, and investment is urgently needed by central government to ring-fence a funding stream to address historical underfunding of these services. In a context of austerity and competitive commission favouring...
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Dance skills
Education & Development

Dance skills

...health and safety for dance, click on ‘view document’ below to read Warming Up and Cooling Down and visit the Dance UK website. view document...Dance skills: 2 Posture, alignment and balance - Posture and alignment are the key to balance and moving through space. It can be tempting to overlook such things when faced with 25 students, of whom a third want to do a...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Microgravity: living on the International Space Station Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Microgravity: living on the International Space Station

...health care. What about pensions? Finally, there is quality of life. So, what research is now being done that will benefit everyone in their later years? It turns out that the ageing process can be researched in a microgravity environment. Here the context of ‘bed rest’ is used. But how can resting in a bed simulate ageing? And does space travel make astronauts age?...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Could we control our climate? Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Could we control our climate?

...health and infrastructure. But changes to average rainfall – whether increased or decreased – are also important. Too little rainfall over a long period, for example, and supplies for drinking, agriculture and hydroelectric power can be at risk. Figure 7 shows the changes that have happened since the middle of the twentieth century. [This global map has coloured cells...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Social science and participation
Society, Politics & Law

Social science and participation

...health. What I think we found since then is the debate has begun to shift so that this kind of more relative view of poverty, the one that accepts that participation is an important part of poverty that it is set according the standards of the society you're living in, has become to be much more widely accepted. Social science, poverty and participation As you continue...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
First steps in innovation and entrepreneurship
Money & Business

First steps in innovation and entrepreneurship

...health care and education. And all these things have much longer-term impacts than just the impact of a shortage of food in the short term. KENNETH SHWEDEL: The impact of the higher prices is felt throughout the expenditures of the poorer Mexicans. And then subsequently, it’s felt in terms of a lower demand for other things within the Mexican economy, which is a real...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs