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...learn about and engage with each other’s religious backgrounds. Despite huge public support however, and with a few honourable exceptions, integrated schools previously attracted little support from both sides of the political divide. How did the discourse around integrated education in Northern Ireland evolve? In terms of the current exchange the DUP would appear to...

...learn how to read the news. After all, there’s nothing particularly obscure or technical about the language that’s used in news reports. But today, with so much talk about ‘fake news’, and so much scepticism about bias in the media, the issue of how events are presented to us has become a major concern for society. Understanding how the news industry operates, and...

...learn in the OU’s “Environmental Studies” courses. Airports are particularly interesting for geographers because they are an almost perfect example of how scale, distance and network are more complicated than you might initially think. And Heathrow is more complicated than most airports! Firstly, airports are about connections, and by some counts Heathrow is the...