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The first 25 years: OU Renewable Energy Education
Nature & Environment

The first 25 years: OU Renewable Energy Education

...course to cover all renewables, and it supported educators at institutions in the UK and around the world, including in Europe, North America and Australia. It is also thought to be the first course to apply consistent methodologies to all the renewables and to cover resources, physics, technologies, environmental aspects and economics. A product of its time, it included...
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An unheard voice from a Chinese teacher
Languages

An unheard voice from a Chinese teacher

...course one can never blame consumers, as consumers are always right. It is, therefore, far easier to blame teachers, to put teachers down, as their positions can easily be replaced. Teachers are truly “conditioned” in terms of their lacking of autonomy. They are de-professionalized and become labourers in an industrialized school system. There is no doubt that the...
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From insecurity to insecurity: Black and Ethnic Minority Europeans in the UK
Society, Politics & Law

From insecurity to insecurity: Black and Ethnic Minority Europeans in the UK

...course deeply worrying, as any rise in xenophobia and racism undermines democratic forms of sociality. One aspect which has perhaps not caught the public imagination arises from one of the calls of the pro-Brexit campaigners. They have emphasised that in demanding curbs on European migration, they are ‘calling for an end to discrimination in the treatment of people...
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Newry: Frontier town or border city?
Society, Politics & Law

Newry: Frontier town or border city?

...Free State became two separate entities. The initial border between North and South was drawn just south of Newry. Newry’s large nationalist majority lobbied for the removal of Newry and its surrounding hinterland into the Irish Free State, on the grounds that Newry was linked closely to the economies of the surrounding counties of Louth and Monaghan. On the unionist...
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About Earth In Vision
Nature & Environment

About Earth In Vision

...free to download, and will link to a website holding a sample of resources and archive content for free public use. Along with the programmes themselves we have been working in the BBC’s paper archives of files related to programmes and policies, and we have also filmed nearly thirty full length interviews with media producers, from icons such as Sir David Attenborough...
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Electrochemical Machining (ECM)
Science, Maths & Technology

Electrochemical Machining (ECM)

...free components with an excellent surface finish in hard, difficult-to-machine, electrically conductive materials...Electrical reaction (iron or steel workpiece) Removes any electrically conductive material by the anodic dissolution of the workpiece (+ve) in a stream of electrolyte, which separates the workpiece from the shaped electrode (-ve) (tool). The tool has a...
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What is Indigenous Psychology?
Education & Development

What is Indigenous Psychology?

...free from all external influences (Shams, 2002). The term ‘indigenous’ refers to the natural occurrence at a local place, hence, the prominent feature of indigenous psychology is the absence of external, foreign and non-local contexts in understanding human behaviour. [Quechua Indigenous Women in traditional clothes with their domestic animals, two llama and one...
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Ethics Bites
History & The Arts

Ethics Bites

...Free Speech It’s not just what you say, it’s why you say it and why your audience is listening. Tim Scanlon explains the intricacies of free speech. Find out more about Tim, and ethics, at www.open2.net/ethicsbites. Climate Change Should the West shoulder the responsibility for tackling global warming? James Garvey talks about the ethics of climate change. Find out...
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