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Understanding mental capacity Badge icon
Health, Sports & Psychology

Understanding mental capacity

...law and how it is applied in a practical way for those making important decisions about other’s lives, such as health and social care staff, police, banks and insurance industry workers, and retailers. Enrolling on the course will give you the opportunity to earn an Open University digital badge. Badges are not accredited by The Open University but they're a great way...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Passports: identity and airports
Society, Politics & Law

Passports: identity and airports

...laws. In 1558, for instance, the town council of Dundee enacted that: SCOTTISH NARRATOR No beggars be tholet within this burgh, but quhilk are born within the same. And none of them be suffered to beg, except they, having the town's seal upon their hat or cloak, be auld, cruikit, lame, or debilifcatit be great seiknes. NARRATOR This method of identifying vagrants and...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
LGBTQIA rights: why The Good Friday Agreement matters
Society, Politics & Law

LGBTQIA rights: why The Good Friday Agreement matters

...law in 2016, named after Alan Turing, to Northern Ireland allowing those, particularly gay and bisexual men, who had been convicted of a crime that would no longer be unlawful such as consensual sex among adults, to have this conviction expunged from their record – and the removal of the ban on gay and bisexual men donating blood and the introduction of the FAIR system...
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Article 5 mins
World-Changing Women: Cynisca
History & The Arts

World-Changing Women: Cynisca

...law both to inherit and to bequeath land, which was unknown elsewhere in Greece. In the early 4th century BCE, women owned about 40% of Sparta’s agricultural land. Girls had access to education and women had freedom of movement. In addition, Spartan women were discouraged from spending time on household activities and encouraged to participate in active physical...
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Article 5 mins
Reflections on the Glasgow City Council equal pay dispute
Society, Politics & Law

Reflections on the Glasgow City Council equal pay dispute

...law/the-fight-equal-pay-glasgow-city-council-2018 BBC News ‘Equal pay strikes suspended as financial deal under way’, April 13, 2022: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-61093247 Unison Glasgow: ‘Glasgow branch overwhelmingly votes to back new strike action’: (The long running dispute around equal pay and has continued even after the members were...
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World-Changing Women: Charlotte Maxeke
History & The Arts

World-Changing Women: Charlotte Maxeke

...laws. Maxeke was also involved in multiracial movements and was elected president of the Women’s Missionary Society. In 1928, after attending a conference in the USA she set up an employment agency for Africans in Johannesburg and was the first black woman to become a parole officer for juvenile delinquents. She died in Johannesburg in 1939. Learn more about African...
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Methods in Motion: As borders flex, how does citizenship change?
Society, Politics & Law

Methods in Motion: As borders flex, how does citizenship change?

...law, philosophy, history, anthropology, economics, and geography, whilst crossing through fields such as gender studies, international studies, migration and refugee studies, human rights, development studies, public policy and education. Yet, the interdisciplinarity of the field, and the variety of ways of looking at citizenship, have also meant that there is no distinct...
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Article 5 mins
Information blackout at the Council of Europe?
Nature & Environment

Information blackout at the Council of Europe?

...law. Whilst best known for the European Convention on Human Rights, it has actually concluded hundreds of binding legal Conventions and carried out scores of cooperative programmes in areas as diverse as minority rights, children’s rights, the preservation of environmental and cultural heritage, media policy, data protection and the fight against cybercrime. Such broad...
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