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Today’s immigration laws have teeth, and their bite is toxic for people seeking asylum
Society, Politics & Law

Today’s immigration laws have teeth, and their bite is toxic for people seeking asylum

...public transport and regulations within housing. To give one example, women I spoke with who lived in one accommodation facility run by SERCO said that they had been told they would be reported to the Home Office for leaving bedroom doors open that could be a fire hazard. In this way, everyday actions become border offences. [A piece of paper is stuck up on a yellow...
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Article 10 mins
How radical was Martin Luther King?
History & The Arts

How radical was Martin Luther King?

...public letter explaining the motivations behind his crusade. It stands in striking contrast with his hopeful 1957 sermon. His “Letter From a Birmingham Jail” responded to a newspaper advertisement from eight local clergymen urging King to allow the city government to enact gradual changes. In a stark change from his earlier views, King devastatingly targeted white...
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Article 5 mins
Can science make you a better leader?
Money & Business

Can science make you a better leader?

...public, private and not-for-profit sectors, some interesting differences emerged. In those organisations where senior leaders offered a positive role model, then it was more likely that purposeful leadership would be widely diffused throughout the organisation. One person we spoke to at a retailer said: Our CEO is very, very visionary and everyone absolutely bought into...
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Article 5 mins
Software development for enterprise systems
Digital & Computing

Software development for enterprise systems

...public while the encapsulated data and operation implementation are said to be private. The operations provide all the information that anyone using a date would need. There is never a need to access the underlying representation of the date. If the representation needs to change, only the implementation of the operations on date need to be rewritten. All clients are...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
Can tourism be both responsible and sustainable?
Nature & Environment

Can tourism be both responsible and sustainable?

...public transport...Can tourism be both responsible and sustainable?: 6.1 Challenges with tourism - There are two main challenges with tourism that we will look at in this section. The first is overtourism, which was briefly mentioned at the start of the course in relation to what was happening in Spain and the Canary Islands. This means that growth – and bringing more...
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Level 1: Introductory 7 hrs
Effective writing in professional social work practice
Health, Sports & Psychology

Effective writing in professional social work practice

...health and social care practitioners who want to learn about writing in their practice. This OpenLearn course is an adapted extract from the Open University Social Work courses...Effective writing in professional social work practice: Learning outcomes - By the end of this course, you should be able to: describe different types of social work writing understand the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs
IT in everyday life
Science, Maths & Technology

IT in everyday life

...public services will be accessible online, and billions of pounds have been spent to get computers into schools and local communities. The language used by politicians has drawn strongly on the inevitability of technological change and the need to be at the forefront of these changes in order to secure future prosperity. One of the discussions about IT concerns whether...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Collective leadership
Money & Business

Collective leadership

...public expect us to hold people to account for behaving in that way. So within Sussex police, I can set the standards and enforce those standards time and again and be able to support people in the challenging decision making that they make. And we are held to account externally by the IOPC. And sometimes it is their behaviour that's seen by officers that says, I feel...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs