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Mental health in society
Health, Sports & Psychology

Mental health in society

...worked in, written about and discussed their experiences. Activity 1 Words and their meaning Timing: Allow about 30 minutes To begin, read the discussion in Reading A, written by OU academics. While you are doing so you may wish to take some notes about why the use of language is important in mental health and what its use might suggest to those who have mental ill-health...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Explainer: how do you read an election poll?
Society, Politics & Law

Explainer: how do you read an election poll?

...work status (employed, unemployed, retired, and so on) and the region of the country where they live. Most of the polling organisations speak to their sample of electors either by telephone interviews or through websites. The margin of error There are several kinds of opinion poll results for an election. The commonest kind in the UK give the voting intentions for the...
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Article 10 mins
True stories of the 1975 EEC Referendum
Society, Politics & Law

True stories of the 1975 EEC Referendum

...working class should be opposed to the Common Market”. The EEC was “a capitalist institution, designed to strengthen the power of the ruling classes of the different countries within it”. The opposition was unequivocal: “No to the capitalists’ Common Market – on any terms.” In an explicit re-run of the point made in 1971, the IMG argued that “the job of...
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Video 2 hrs
Death on the tracks: A 19th century train crash
History & The Arts

Death on the tracks: A 19th century train crash

...work further down the line. He could not tell the reason why the distance signal was taken off, because the line was not clear. It was turned off some distance up the line. As soon as he saw the wharf train he told the driver, and he jumped off the engine. The cause of the accident appeared to arise from some person having turned off the danger signal. The signal being...
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Article 10 mins
Attacked but not hacked: How secure was the US election?
Society, Politics & Law

Attacked but not hacked: How secure was the US election?

...work to prevent attacks, and to respond to those that happen, in several ways. They identify threats and vulnerabilities in their systems and networks. They create and execute procedures to operate those systems. And they otherwise work to provide a secure cyberspace for their organizations. They also share threat information and best practices across companies and...
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Article 5 mins
Free School Meals: An OpenLearn reading list
Education & Development

Free School Meals: An OpenLearn reading list

...work. The University uses a range of indicators because we believe that no single measure accurately captures disadvantage and under-representation. The limitations of FSM as a proxy for disadvantage and as a widening participation measure are acknowledged by the UK Government. The data excludes individuals who choose not to claim FSM. It excludes those with incomes too...
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Article 5 mins
Using digital tools to save languages
Languages

Using digital tools to save languages

...work allows us today to discover many fascinating stories from those cultures. While it is interesting and advantageous to know more than one language, our native language is particularly important, as it is the tool in which we most easily encode and decode our emotions, our stories, and our secrets. If we don’t start documenting languages digitally—especially the...
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Rare diseases: low numbers, high impact
Science, Maths & Technology

Rare diseases: low numbers, high impact

...work is aimed to understand the causes of the heart dysfunction observed in later life in individuals with CLN3 Disease (read about Broken Hearts in Batten Disease). Other groups in the School of Life, Health and Chemical Sciences at The Open University also incorporate the study of rare diseases into their research. As one of the many diseases they study, the Blood Brain...
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Article 10 mins