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Why do transgender students need safe bathrooms?
Education & Development

Why do transgender students need safe bathrooms?

...educational institutions - and other public spaces are likely to follow. Alison Gash explains why it's important...Bathroom safety has become the next battle for transgender students on college campuses across the nation. Often referred to as “bathroom desegregation,” calls for safer bathrooms have inspired “shit-ins” at California Polytechnic and San Diego State,...
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Child spirituality
Education & Development

Child spirituality

...education, identity, family and social relationships, social presentation, emotional and behavioural development, self-care skills). They also require assessments to think about each child in the context of their particular family and community. This helps practitioners to assess what appears to be universal to children, to understand individual differences, the...
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Betty Luckham: celebrating the activism of a pioneering Windrush woman
History & The Arts

Betty Luckham: celebrating the activism of a pioneering Windrush woman

...education at Carnegie College of Domestic Science, she was very involved in helping to care for relatives of her mother who were in poor health. [This is a map of Guyana] Map showing the location of Guyana At 18, Betty entered the world of work, beginning in the Department of Transport and Harbours before joining the civil service in the Housing and Planning Authority....
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Flying Fatigued: Fatigue in Aviation
Health, Sports & Psychology

Flying Fatigued: Fatigue in Aviation

...Resource Management training was only conducted for newly appointed First Officers and involved a short briefing on the concepts of CRM. Current Captains were not given any CRM training. Case Study 2 BOMBARDIER DHC-8-402, S2-AGU, BS211, KATHMANDU, NEPAL link for full report On March 12, 2018, a US Bangla Airlines, Bombardier DHC-8-402, S2-AGU, flight number BS211 departed...
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Was Alcibiades the Athenian Donald Trump?
History & The Arts

Was Alcibiades the Athenian Donald Trump?

...resources overseas at a time when they might require them to defend Athens against attack. A conservative general called Nicias – who was wealthy, important and much respected – got up in the assembly to argue his position. Very sensibly, he suggested that the Athenians were in no position to control Sicily even if they could conquer the island. He then employed a...
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Better regulation or austerity politics? Undoing social protection
Society, Politics & Law

Better regulation or austerity politics? Undoing social protection

...resource, but the loss of a particular kind of resource, that is, expertise and experience: redundancies did not only mean that staff were not replaced but a loss of specialist expertise, alongside pressures for regulators to become generalists. As one inspector put it, “it’s the experienced staff who have gone, so we have lost numbers and expertise”. In fact, the...
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English in the world today
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English in the world today

...March 14 © The Christian Science Monitor; Figure 4: Manuscript of Summer is icumen in © The British Library Board; Don't miss out: If reading this text has inspired you to learn more, you may be interested in joining the millions of people who discover our free learning resources and qualifications by visiting The Open University - www.open.edu/ openlearn/ free-courses...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Quantitative and qualitative research in finance
Money & Business

Quantitative and qualitative research in finance

...Open University course B860 Research methods for finance...Quantitative and qualitative research in finance: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: distinguish between qualitative and quantitative research identify different sampling approaches distinguish between primary and secondary data sources interpret the political and ethical...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs