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How arguments are constructed and used in the Social Sciences
Society, Politics & Law

How arguments are constructed and used in the Social Sciences

...2 (8 minutes 4 MB) Bea Campbell Well, there is only one conclusion you can draw from the prosecution’s division between the deserving and the undeserving poor: that the poor produce their own poverty; that they are feckless and reckless and that they should be restrained from reproducing themselves by the withdrawal of the welfare state. This motion means a new kind of...
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Level 2: Intermediate 1 hr
When Heath met Nixon
History & The Arts

When Heath met Nixon

...2) we had to be concrete in the subjects being discussed. We didn't want a conference in 192. We allies should discuss the matter first. Pompidou stressed that a Conference could have a salutary effect on the countries of Eastern Europe, leavening their policies. Dr Kissinger then explained the US philosophy on MBFR and the European Security Conference in greater detail....
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Article 15 mins
How the atmosphere sustains life on Earth
Science, Maths & Technology

How the atmosphere sustains life on Earth

...2–3 billion years ago. After this ‘Great Oxygenation Event’ many more complex, multi-celled organisms were able to evolve to take advantage of the changed environment. The weather One way that the atmosphere impacts us all is through ‘weather’. Weather is simply the day-to-day change in the atmosphere around us. The atmosphere changes rapidly because it has a...
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Article 20 mins
Support for you and your mental health
Health, Sports & Psychology

Support for you and your mental health

...2 Wish Upon a Star Support for those affected by the sudden and traumatic death of a child or a young adult aged 25 or under throughout Wales. www.2wishuponastar.org Email: support@2wishuponastar.org SANDS (Stillbirth and Neonatal Death Society) Leading stillbirth and neonatal death charity in the UK. Sands provides bereavement support services nationally and locally....
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Reading communities: why, what and how?
Education & Development

Reading communities: why, what and how?

...Cremin, T., Harris, D. & Chamberlain, L. (2018) ‘Pedagogy for reading for pleasure in low socio-economic primary schools: beyond ‘pedagogy of poverty’?’ Literacy 52 (2):86-94. McGrane, J., Stiff, J., Baird, J., Lenkeit, J. & Hopfenbeck-Oxford, T. (2017) Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS): National Report for England Department for Education....
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10 incredible people whose stories you'll find on OpenLearn
History & The Arts

10 incredible people whose stories you'll find on OpenLearn

...2: Alexander Fleming - discoverer of penicillin Transcript Who'd have thought this guy would've saved millions of people with some accidentally discovered 'mould juice'?! Sir Alexander Fleming, born in 1881, was a Scottish biologist, pharmacologist and botanist. He is best-known for discovering the antibiotic substance benzylpenicillin (Penicillin G) from the mould...
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Hybrid working: skills for digital transformation
Digital & Computing

Hybrid working: skills for digital transformation

...2 Skills for the future Timing: 20 minutes Read Section 5 of A journey to a prosperous Wales and then watch the video below, in which Sophie Howe, The Future Generations Commissioner for Wales, explains the skills that will be required for the future. SOPHIE HOWE It’s so important for us to be thinking about the sorts of skills that are going to be relevant for people...
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Level 1: Introductory 11 hrs
Preparing for your digital life in the 21st Century
Science, Maths & Technology

Preparing for your digital life in the 21st Century

...2 being relatively small for the time. They were also delicate, and consumed a lot of electricity, wasting much of it as heat. [Described image] Figure 2A 1950s computer Nowadays, however, a computer is just another item stocked in supermarkets alongside toothpaste and dog food. And as computers have become cheaper and smaller, they have been incorporated into a...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs