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Innovative efforts to raise wages
Money & Business

Innovative efforts to raise wages

...family and personal interests. Increasingly, people feel as if they simply live to work rather than work to live. The attempt to increase pay can, therefore, also involve lessening the amount they work for such pay. In Europe there have been interesting experiments with reducing the working day while maintaining or even increasing pay. David Crouch looks at one such...
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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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Article 5 mins
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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Article 20 mins
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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Article 5 mins
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
Exploring Religion in London
History & The Arts

Exploring Religion in London

...family. So we have time for the benefits of other people. -End of mini-documentary- Bevis Marks Synagogue Hidden in a courtyard away from the main streets, London’s oldest surviving synagogue was built in 1701. It is introduced by the manager, Maurice Bitton. Transcript Exploring Religion in London Bevis Marks Synagogue Narrator: Welcome to the Spanish and Portuguese...
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Video 30 mins
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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Article 5 mins
John Napier
Science, Maths & Technology

John Napier

...history of logarithms exemplifies well a remark which the historian Clifford Truesdell has made in another context: ‘the simple ideas are the hardest to achieve; simplicity does not come of itself but must be created’ (his full comment is linked below). Napier and Briggs had to work hard to create even the ‘simple’ major logarithm property that Clifford...
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Level 2: Intermediate 3 hrs