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Simplistic models for understanding Coronavirus: Helpful or harmful?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Simplistic models for understanding Coronavirus: Helpful or harmful?

...working in the health service and may not, therefore, be able to continue working if they have children to look after. This would result in a reduction of the health system's capacity to cope. Such a scenario may well have been a consideration in the UK government’s response so far, however, it would also imply policy options that, in this case, the government did not...
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On Brexit, Hamsters & Hungry Pythons!
Society, Politics & Law

On Brexit, Hamsters & Hungry Pythons!

...social insurance system. The NHS is about as safe with them as a pet hamster would be with a hungry python. The issue of the safety of the NHS, and the ‘leave’ campaigners’ claims that money sent to Brussels could be spent on healthcare were further undermined when it emerged that the co-founder of the Leave.EU group, Arron Banks, did not support a state-funded NHS....
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Housing beyond borders
Society, Politics & Law

Housing beyond borders

...social divisions and tensions surrounding who can afford to live and work in cities where rental prices are soaring, and working-class communities are being pushed out. Thinking geographically about changing places Developing the skills to understand and analyse how places are changing is a central theme running throughout the new Open University module D225 Changing...
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What does ‘inclusive education’ mean to you?
Education & Development

What does ‘inclusive education’ mean to you?

...working children nomadic groups ethnic and linguistic minorities children and young people affected by crisis those with special learning needs and disabilities. If we consider education outside of school settings, we can also add other groups to this list: adults with low literacy skills, for example, those who have been excluded or prevented from completing the level of...
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The history of soapmaking
History & The Arts

The history of soapmaking

...worked away at crafts like dyeing and soapmaking. Secret recipes, refined by trial and error, were handed down from master to apprentice, and from father to son. Soap was largely developed for use in the cloth industry, to prepare wool for dyeing, and not for personal hygiene. By the 13th century, soapmaking in Britain became centred in large towns like Bristol, Coventry...
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57 genders (and none for me?) - Part One
Society, Politics & Law

57 genders (and none for me?) - Part One

...social media for a long time. It changed its gender option so that, instead of choosing from ‘male’ and ‘female’, users could pick from a range of over 50 gender terms, as well as choosing to be referred to as ‘they’ if they didn’t want a gendered pronoun (‘he’ or ‘she’). As usual, rather than getting into whether this is a good move or a bad move by...
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Mastering systems thinking in practice Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Mastering systems thinking in practice

...social technology, depend on many people working with it, developing and refining it, using it, taking it up, recommending it, and above all finding it useful. But not all technologies that succeed are the best – it depends on who builds the better networks, particularly of practitioners. As you experience the use of a particular systems method and strive to make it a...
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Level 3: Advanced 24 hrs
The Irish Gothic in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries
OpenLearn Ireland

The Irish Gothic in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries

...work these writers were producing, but the social and political upheavals of Irish politics at home—from the Easter Rising to the Troubles—contributed to a truly distinctive form of Gothic writing produced in Ireland. You will be looking specifically at two examples of this writing: the short story ‘The Demon Lover’ (1945) by Elizabeth Bowen and the play The Weir...
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Article 45 mins