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Can Starbucks sell coffee to the Italians?
Money & Business

Can Starbucks sell coffee to the Italians?

...open its first outlets in Italy in 2017. For Howard Schultz, who transformed the Seattle roaster from 17 stores focused on selling coffee beans into a global chain with more than 22,500 outlets, this latest opening is different. It was in Milan in 1983 that Schultz first experienced the theatre of Italian espresso bars and conceived the notion of opening similar...
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Using Talk Factory for Speaking and Listening in Classrooms
Education & Development

Using Talk Factory for Speaking and Listening in Classrooms

...Open University – on some research using Talk Factory in her lessons in January and February 2019. Talk Factory is an online tool and app which supports learning by helping teachers and their students to understand how to engage in productive argumentation in primary and secondary schools. This is an important aspect of education described in the English National...
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The Silver Bridge Disaster: Eyebars in suspension
Science, Maths & Technology

The Silver Bridge Disaster: Eyebars in suspension

...opening day. Walter Carpenter My father was Vice-President of the corporation that built the Silver Bridge. It was a wonderful time to be a young American boy. The Roaring Twenties, they called it, and America had…had never been as prosperous, they just thought nothing but the best in the future and a wonderful time for America. The St Marys Citizens Band marched at the...
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How is Italy reinventing the co-op?
Money & Business

How is Italy reinventing the co-op?

...Open Group, a 300-member social cooperative, runs a dizzying array of programs out of a buzzing office near Bologna’s central train station. A bike lane is painted across their floor to underscore one of its numerous missions: making Bologna into Italy’s best city for bicycling. Other missions include: Rehabilitating drug and alcohol addicts; Providing services to...
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Do I have mental health problems and should I get some help?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Do I have mental health problems and should I get some help?

...open up about their mental health problems, especially in the workplace. In addition to this legal advancement, large-scale public campaigns have sought to challenge mental health stigma, and increase awareness of its negative impact. For example “Time to Change” in England, which has sought to reduce mental health-related stigma and discrimination since 2009. [Time...
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How Emma Raducanu’s parents strike the right balance: supporting your child athlete
Health, Sports & Psychology

How Emma Raducanu’s parents strike the right balance: supporting your child athlete

...Open without dropping a set. Shortly after that win, Dr Jessica Pinchbeck looked at the important role her parents played in her career and life up to that point...This content is associated with The Open University's Sport and Fitness courses and qualifications. Many parents are faced with a difficult question of how to best support the sporting excellence of their...
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Home education for children with special educational needs
Education & Development

Home education for children with special educational needs

...Open University’s Childhood and Youth Studies qualification. This made me question my identity as a teacher and wonder what schools were for, and motivated me to undertake a doctoral study at The Open University (awarded in 2022) to understand what was happening. Increasing ‘official’ numbers Recent years have seen media focus on rising numbers of home-educated...
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Closing the awarding gap: practical actions to support Black and minority ethnic students
Education & Development

Closing the awarding gap: practical actions to support Black and minority ethnic students

...Open University scholarship (2020–2024), Rajvinder Samra explores how educators can help to close the awarding gap for Black and minority ethnic students. ...Awarding gaps between Black and minority ethnic students and their white peers remain a persistent challenge across higher education. While the causes are complex, evidence emerging since 2020 – including...
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