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Is there such thing as ‘male’ and ‘female’ autism?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Is there such thing as ‘male’ and ‘female’ autism?

...it does not offer a complete picture of their needs. All of this individual’s subsequent difficulties may be attributed to the anxiety, without considering that they might, in fact, be autistic. This could also mean that some autistic people don’t have access to the support they need in education, at work or in society, because their needs are not fully recognised. ....
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Eid al-Fitr
History & The Arts

Eid al-Fitr

...Education ‘schools must treat absence as authorised when it is due to religious observance’. References and further resources References Douglass, S.L. (2002) ‘Holidays and Religious Observances’, World Eras, Vol. 2: Rise and Spread of Islam, 622–1500, Gale, pp. 280–7. Ergil, L.Y. (2021) ‘Turkish and Ottoman traditions for Eid al-Fitr: a time for...
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The Good Friday Agreement - 20 Year Anniversary
OpenLearn Ireland

The Good Friday Agreement - 20 Year Anniversary

...education bill that expanded opportunities for millions of Americans. He was a leader in opening markets to trade and led the Senate to ratification of the North American Free Trade Agreement and creation of the World Trade Organization. Senator Mitchell received an undergraduate degree from Bowdoin College and a law degree from the Georgetown University Law Center. He...
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Grief and COVID-19: Mourning what we know, who we miss and the way we say goodbye
Health, Sports & Psychology

Grief and COVID-19: Mourning what we know, who we miss and the way we say goodbye

...educate, the way we work and the way in which we care for the dying and ultimately say goodbye to our loved ones. COVID-19 is not only a public health crisis, but a psychological one, provoking death anxiety, stress and sadness. At present, we are collectively grieving the multiple losses many of us have experienced, these include lost jobs, lost connections with our...
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Why not ‘World Religions’?
History & The Arts

Why not ‘World Religions’?

...educated elites, especially those who wished to portray India as a unified, modern nation on the international stage. Even today, religion in India is presented in introductory textbooks as a single, albeit multifaceted, tradition, ignoring literally hundreds of millions of people’s beliefs and practices. Judaism – is not a good fit with the World Religions model. It...
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Level 1: Introductory 1 hr
Waste management and environmentalism in China
Nature & Environment

Waste management and environmentalism in China

...technology is increasingly being used to extract energy from food waste...Waste management and environmentalism in China: Strategy 3: Improving technology - Burning or incinerating MSW dramatically reduces the volume of waste to be dealt with and is an important way of dealing with the waste problem in China. However, a modern plant should not be designed just with mass...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Promoting equality through the Arts
History & The Arts

Promoting equality through the Arts

...technology companies from both India and China have opened UK bases in the city that have attracted workers from overseas. The diversity of participants, and the variety of ways in they made the Democratic Set their ‘home’, inspired us to think about the meaning of home in a fast-paced, globalised world. What does it mean to have, to create, to be, or to feel at home?...
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Reparations for slavery in Barbados
Education & Development

Reparations for slavery in Barbados

...Technology transfer Debt cancellation The (brief) arguments For: Slavery created vast amounts of wealth for the colonisers, the planters and the white elite (see Williams, 1944) Continuing legacy of slavery (inequality of land distribution and wealth distribution) Compensation paid to slave owners Slavery is endemic in economic and political structures Against: Source of...
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