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NILGA Learning Hub
OpenLearn Ireland

NILGA Learning Hub

This OpenLearn Hub, prepared in collaboration with the Northern Ireland Local Government Association (NILGA), features a collection of free online resources designed to support learning and skills development for councillors. [NILGA logo]
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Should we read John Locke today?
Society, Politics & Law

Should we read John Locke today?

...course, freedom is a highly slippery term. Freedom for who, and to what extent? And how do we recognise and manage the boundaries where one person’s ‘freedom’ might harm another person?...Usually when wrestling with these tricky questions, we turn back to the great political thinkers associated with developing a robust idea of freedom. These are historical thinkers,...
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Irish Congress of Trade Unions Learning Hub
OpenLearn Ireland

Irish Congress of Trade Unions Learning Hub

This OpenLearn hub, prepared in collaboration with the Northern Ireland Committee of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions, features free, flexible, distance learning content designed to support employability and upskilling. [Logo of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions.]
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Coping on the Coast: moral economies and liminality at the heart of things that matter
Society, Politics & Law

Coping on the Coast: moral economies and liminality at the heart of things that matter

...courses Environment: journeys through a changing world (U116, Block 3: Nile Limits), Environment: sharing a dynamic planet (DST206) and Earth in crisis: environmental policy in an international context (DU311). Part 2 of Coping on the Coast will draw upon aspects of Dr Wadsley's research on 'Sounding Coastal Change', an AHRC-funded project currently running on the Norfolk...
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The Intervention Initiative – A bystander education programme
Education & Development

The Intervention Initiative – A bystander education programme

...free educational programme for students, focusing on the prevention of sexual coercion and domestic abuse in university settings...[Landscape image of students from waist down] Transcript What is the Intervention Initiative and what is it for? The extent of sexual harassment, sexual coercion, rape and domestic abuse in student populations across England has been revealed...
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Discuss: Working class leisure
Society, Politics & Law

Discuss: Working class leisure

...free time, by definition something which is in short supply for working class people. Yet working class leisure activities had thrived over the years, from music hall to football to karaoke. Doing what you can with what you’ve got has often been the watchword. And we shouldn’t forget the gendering of leisure – women’s and girls sports for example, separated off...
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What does Marine LePen plan for France?
Society, Politics & Law

What does Marine LePen plan for France?

...free, safe, prosperous, fair, proud, powerful, and sustainable”. Not many people will have the inclination to read the lot, but I did. And what I discovered was a candidate who plans not so much to take France out of Europe as cut it free of the whole continent. The key themes of the weighty manifesto are for France to leave both the eurozone and the EU and to...
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What is a digital carbon footprint?
Nature & Environment

What is a digital carbon footprint?

...courses Carbon footprint According to the World Meteorology Organisations, the occurrence of extreme climate events has increased by more than a factor of five in the last 50 years. In their 2021 report, they state that the number of reported climate disasters rose from 711 in the 1970s to 3,165 in the decade between 2010 and 2019. It is therefore perhaps not surprising...
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