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How have family budgets changed in sixty years?
Money & Business

How have family budgets changed in sixty years?

...course, the country has changed a great deal since 1957, and our spending habits with it. These days, ONS publishes the Family Spending results on an internationally-comparable basis – the Classification of Individual Consumption by Purpose system, or ‘COICOP’ to its friends. Back then, though, we used a different system of spending categories, the so-called Family...
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Ceramic mould casting
Science, Maths & Technology

Ceramic mould casting

...courses and qualifications [Diagram to demonstrate ceramic mould casting] [Diagram to demonstrate ceramic mould casting] [Diagram explaining ceramic mould casting] Manufacture: An alternative to expendable pattern investment casting (“lost wax process”), and shell moulding. Permanent patterns of metal, wood, resin, plaster or rubber eliminate several stages of the...
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What's next for British wages?
Money & Business

What's next for British wages?

...course, wage stagnation does not affect everyone equally. Indeed, low wages are also impacted by existing problems of racism and sexism. Declining pay, perhaps not surprisingly, is especially dramatic for non-white and non-males. There are serious racial and gender pay gaps that persist and in some cases are widening. They are linked to structural issues – such as women...
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The West of Ireland: Dimensions of distinctiveness
Scotland Colleges

The West of Ireland: Dimensions of distinctiveness

...place. Explore the articles in this collection . Acknowledgements This material draws from an Open University course based on the work of Pat Jess. Jess, P. (1985) ‘Unit 17 Local Change in the West of Ireland’, in The Open University (1985) D205 Changing Britain, Changing World: geographical perspectives, Broadcast Handbook, Milton Keynes, The Open University Press....
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Machine translation – using online tools to improve your language teaching
Education & Development

Machine translation – using online tools to improve your language teaching

...courses and qualifications. The free online translation tool DeepL is currently among the top globally visited websites, and everyday millions of users translate billions of characters with its help, or the help of the similarly successful Google Translate. Research shows that 99% of language students at the OU – and indeed 100% of language teachers! – are familiar...
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Invasion of the killer pumpkins
Money & Business

Invasion of the killer pumpkins

...Furthermore, the fact that Halloween (or Easter, or Christmas) comes but once a year, means customers are prepared to pay more for products in fancy dress than they would for the basic item – thus creating more profit margin. Of course such potential rewards carry risk. Nobody wants jelly rodents in the warehouse in the first week of November. More on a Halloween theme...
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Assisted dying or non-assisted living?
Society, Politics & Law

Assisted dying or non-assisted living?

...course we did want to go ahead. The insertion of the pacemaker was a medical success but a personal tragedy for Dad. He endured two more years of pain, confusion, immobility, indignity and misery, until he contracted complex dysphagia and stopped trying to eat or drink. In the meantime, Mum’s health suffered because of the physical and emotional strain; she was...
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How long would it take to colonise the galaxy?
Science, Maths & Technology

How long would it take to colonise the galaxy?

...of magnitude, because say, resources are short, or it really takes 1000 years to cover 10 light-years. This article is adapted from The Open University course Planetary Science and the Search For Life Clarification: In the process of bringing this item from book to web, a rogue digit '1' appeared prior to the commas in some numbers. This odd maths has now been corrected....
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