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Remembering the Timex Dundee struggles 1993
Society, Politics & Law

Remembering the Timex Dundee struggles 1993

...world, redundancies became more common in the Dundee factories. By 1991 only one factory remained to employ 300 workers. In 1993 the final strike broke out in response to further job losses on unfavourable terms for the workers. The strike sent ripples across the city of Dundee and beyond with many members of the local community and wider trade union movement supporting...
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53 things you never knew about OpenLearn
Education & Development

53 things you never knew about OpenLearn

...World War 2 codebreakers) and got our hands dirty sanding and painting benches, digging a path and gardening. You can find out more about volunteering in this badged free course, Introducing the Voluntary Sector. Like most of the UK, the OpenLearn team are BIG fans of The Great British Bake Off but we also enjoy eating healthily - take a look at this course, The science...
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DIY: Experiments with Natural Dyes
Science, Maths & Technology

DIY: Experiments with Natural Dyes

...world. Extremely accessible. Burton et al., Chemical Storylines, G. Heinemann Educational Publishers Part of the Salters Advanced Chemistry course, which explores the frontiers of research and the applications of contemporary chemistry. For A level and other science courses aimed at 16 to 19-year olds. Fraser A. and Gilchrist I., Starting Science (Book 1), Oxford...
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Article 15 mins
Wellbeing for Work
Health, Sports & Psychology

Wellbeing for Work

...world of work and people’s relationship with it. Our identities, both at work and home, are being further merged, which can cause confusion and frustration. One thing that is clear, is that these changes could not be foreseen and have found us needing to dig deep to develop coping strategies and find different ways of working and/or being. This change in our situations...
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Article 10 mins
Forth Road Bridge
History & The Arts

Forth Road Bridge

...world it's been attempted, and there’s a big dilemma. By the time they find out if the dry air’s worked, it’ll be too late to build a new bridge. There’s a lot at stake. KEITH PERRYMAN Given that we’re handling twenty-four million vehicles a year, it's quite impractical to consider that traffic diverting on a mile detour. So it will have a major impact if a new...
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Level 1: Introductory 1 hr
Decolonisation and Higher Education: Closing the Degree Awarding Gap
Education & Development

Decolonisation and Higher Education: Closing the Degree Awarding Gap

...world. [Diploma of University graduation with a red silk ribbon] Maha Bali (Open University, 2020) has discussed the challenges of achieving diversity within higher education: ‘I don’t think a lot of the time that those structures are then modified to support the inclusion…a lot of times it’s tokenistic’. She adds that ‘a lot of times you talk about inclusion...
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Learning Design resources to support embedding sustainability competencies and learning outcomes in course materials
Education & Development

Learning Design resources to support embedding sustainability competencies and learning outcomes in course materials

...world in which we live, we need to be able to collaborate, speak up, and act for positive change as 'sustainability citizens'. UNESCO has identified eight key sustainability competencies that allow us to engage constructively and responsibly. The sustainability competencies are interrelated and key to achieving the SDGs. These are: Systems thinking Anticipatory Normative...
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Children and violence: an introductory, international and interdisciplinary approach
Society, Politics & Law

Children and violence: an introductory, international and interdisciplinary approach

...world is violence. The form of violence against children varies widely and is hugely disparate. In this free course, Children and violence: an introductory, international and interdisciplinary approach, the focus is on three different environments where children experience violence...Children are subject to many forms of adversity, for example, poverty or ill health....
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Level 2: Intermediate 20 hrs