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How did Trump win the White House?
Society, Politics & Law

How did Trump win the White House?

...free advertising from the media coverage his campaign commanded. Trump seemed to intuitively understand that the controversial things he said on the campaign trail captured the voters’ attention in a way that serious policy speeches never could. Most important of all, he had highly motivated voters. Trump’s populist rhetoric and open contempt for civility and basic...
10 years of The Bottom Line
Money & Business

10 years of The Bottom Line

...course by OpenLearn resources. Evan fulfils the BBC’s mission to inform as a presenter on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme, bringing news, interviews and analysis to more than seven million listeners each day, a really staggering statistic. And of course its influence goes beyond mere numbers. As Tim Luckhurst, professor of journalism at Kent University says, “It is...
Reparations for slavery in Barbados
Education & Development

Reparations for slavery in Barbados

...courses. History The English discovery of Barbados occurred in 1625 and it was settled in 1627. I use ‘discover’ in the context of England discovering the island, as opposed to it being discovered as an island. Despite evidence of indigenous populations having been present in Barbados in the past, including Caribs and Arawaks, a visit by the Portuguese in 1536...
Exploring babies' and young children's development and learning
Education & Development

Exploring babies' and young children's development and learning

...course ED841 Understanding children's development and learning... Exploring babies' and young children's development and learning A short introduction to this album Entering social and cultural worlds Dr Dorothy Faulkner of The Open University sets the scene for the first set of interviews on the album Early relationships In this archive interview, Professor Rudolph...
Homeless people could avoid life-saving services, if there’s a risk of deportation
Society, Politics & Law

Homeless people could avoid life-saving services, if there’s a risk of deportation

...free movement. Throughout 2016, a round-up of rough sleepers in London is reported to have taken place with the cooperation of outreach teams from homelessness charities, which allegedly passed information about non-UK-citizens who were sleeping rough to the Home Office, leading to detentions and deportations. During this time, charities’ data were also reportedly being...
Taxes and privacy: A tech business reading list
Science, Maths & Technology

Taxes and privacy: A tech business reading list

...free' apps on Google, Windows and Apple infrastructure are breaking US antitrust law. Writing for The Conversation, John Newman has reassuring news for the multibillion industries, though - a lot of free-to-use activity gets overlooked by the regulators: U.S. antitrust law is uniquely devoted to a strain of economics often called “price theory.” Beginning in the...
Learning to change
OpenLearn Ireland

Learning to change

...course Y165, Learning to Change... Learning To Change Interviews with three adult learners - their background and reasons for taking further education courses. Juggling a Job Three adult learners talk about the value of life experience and describe how they managed their studies alongside other commitments. Benefit through Learning What the future holds. Adult learners...
Centre for Open Thanatology Hub
Health, Sports & Psychology

Centre for Open Thanatology Hub

The Open University’s interdisciplinary research centre dedicated to the study and education of death, dying, loss, and grief across the life course and in diverse contexts.