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Jean-Pierre Gattuso - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Jean-Pierre Gattuso - Stories of Change

...community then there won’t be too much damage on the ocean except for on corals and molluscs? JPG: Yes. RH: And you’re saying that as though that’s a good thing. JPG: I’m not saying it’s a good thing but what we did, we contrasted this scenario with the business as usual scenario, RCP 8.5, the track of which we are today. Today we are even a little above this...
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A year in review 2022
Education & Development

A year in review 2022

...Community, choices, aspirations and our ‘get outdoors, get active’ collection (better in the warmer months!). [blue banner says and the energy prices continue to roar] Martin Lewis warned us that soaring energy bills were a 'national crisis' on the scale of the COVID-19 pandemic (and the soaring didn’t end there!), US politician Nancy Pelosi visited Taiwan, despite...
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International health service: How the NHS has always relied on overseas labour
Society, Politics & Law

International health service: How the NHS has always relied on overseas labour

...Community 1992 Freedom of mobility of citizens - Maastricht Treaty 2004 onwards Expansion of the EU (ten countries joined in 2004; two in 2007; and one in 2013) The NHS and the EEA Since the early 2000s, there has been a shift towards recruitment from within the European Economic Area, which is shown in the table below. Freedom of movement within Europe led to an increase...
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A brief history of sex education
Health, Sports & Psychology

A brief history of sex education

...communicating, personal relationships, parenting and coping strategies. However, it is probably the case that most pupils continued to receive little school sex education, and that what they did receive was a rather brief and narrow education, in biology lessons, about puberty and human reproduction. It is clear that few pupils were given much opportunity to discuss...
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Coming to America: The Making of the Irish-American Diaspora
OpenLearn Ireland

Coming to America: The Making of the Irish-American Diaspora

...Communal Loyalties in the Making of Irish America’ in Making the Irish American: History and Heritage of the Irish in the United States Edited by J.J Lee and Marion Casey, New York: New York University Press. Meaney, G., O’Dowd, M., and Whelan, B. (2013), ‘The Emigrant encounters the ‘New World’, c1851-1960’ in Reading the Irish Woman: Studies in cultural...
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Settling Uncertainty? Reflections on the Scottish Independence Referendum
Society, Politics & Law

Settling Uncertainty? Reflections on the Scottish Independence Referendum

...communities across the UK and are determined to oppose austerity politics and policies. This emerging movement strongly echoes the pro-independence social movement in Scotland in many ways. So, things change, but many things remain the same. Alongside far-reaching political changes there are significant continuities: the Tories continue to attack the most vulnerable aided...
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Planetary Protection of Mars
Science, Maths & Technology

Planetary Protection of Mars

...communicate with Earth and was presumed lost until identified on images taken from orbit in 2014.Show descriptionA photograph showing a gold, approximately 1 metre diameter spacecraft in the centre of a relatively empty room. Four people dressed in blue all-in-one suits, hoods, masks, goggles and gloves are looking at the spacecraft. Special Regions on Mars Category IVc...
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The importance of education for students in secure environments
Education & Development

The importance of education for students in secure environments

...community. Ensuring success for SiSE students and supporting them to achieve their goals aligns with The Open University’s strategy which is ‘to bring flexible, high-quality university education to even more people, achieving even greater societal impact as a social movement and not just a university’ (Live and Learn – The Open University Strategy 2022 to 2027)....
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