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The Great Resignation: temporary blip or more enduring labour market trend?
Money & Business

The Great Resignation: temporary blip or more enduring labour market trend?

...University's Business and Management courses and qualifications. We heard a lot during the COVID-19 pandemic about people in the UK being temporarily furloughed or, in many other cases, losing their jobs entirely. However, one of the other effects was the so-called Great Resignation, also known as the Great Work Reshuffle, or the Big Quit. As academics who research issues...
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We learn, together: exploring familial learning in home education
Education & Development

We learn, together: exploring familial learning in home education

...University’s Childhood and Youth Studies qualification. This includes a significant number of families choosing to keep children’s learning outside of formal schooling following the COVID lockdowns of 2020 and 2021. Some suggest that the numbers of home-educated children are vastly under-represented in surveys done by local authorities and data collection agencies....
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Exploring Ireland’s historic army barracks network
OpenLearn Ireland

Exploring Ireland’s historic army barracks network

...University and University College Dublin, has worked to identify and map over 360 permanent residential army barracks established on the island of Ireland from the 1690s through the establishment of the Irish Free State in 1921–2. The remains of a significant proportion of these sites are still evident across Ireland, in varying states of repair. Some barracks suffered...
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How FMRI works
Health, Sports & Psychology

How FMRI works

...University's Health Science courses and qualifications. What is FMRI? [Brain image produced by FMRI [Image: FMRIB Centre]] Functional magnetic resonance imaging, or FMRI, works by detecting the changes in blood oxygenation and flow that occur in response to neural activity – when a brain area is more active it consumes more oxygen and to meet this increased demand blood...
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Sea level rise in Happisburgh, UK
Nature & Environment

Sea level rise in Happisburgh, UK

...University Coastal Concern Action Group (CCAG) http://happisburgh.org.uk/ccag/ Accessed 20th December 2019 Edwards, T. (2017) Future of the Sea: Current and Future Impacts of Sea Level Rise in the UK, FORESIGHT, Government Office for Science
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Can quotas make gender equality happen in politics? Lessons from business
Society, Politics & Law

Can quotas make gender equality happen in politics? Lessons from business

...universities. And, of course, the UK has a second woman living in 10 Downing Street as prime minister. So things are changing for the better, aren’t they? Politics is becoming a more progressive profession, isn’t it? And the British electorate is more accepting of women making laws and developing policy, no? Possibly. It’s easy to overlook the startling fact there...
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Scotland's gold trail
Nature & Environment

Scotland's gold trail

...you know that Scotland has strong ties with gold mining? Discover the locations where the precious metal is found..._Find out more about The Open University's Environment courses and qualifications. _ Click on the icons below to find out where and when Scotland had its own goldrush, plus what has been made with Scottish gold and what the mining industry has left behind....
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The sharing economy
Society, Politics & Law

The sharing economy

...University) captures the excitement of the proponents of the sharing economy concerning its potential for growth and disruption of the mainstream economy. Webby Connect Interview: Arun Sundararajan on The Sharing Economy Transcript While Arun Sundararajan views the sharing economy in an unequivocally positive light, as an opportunity to increase efficiency of the market...
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