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Yachts, planes and buses... Mind the (inequality) gap
Society, Politics & Law

Yachts, planes and buses... Mind the (inequality) gap

...project rooted in the defence and consolidation of particular class interests. It represents little more than a political assault on the foundations of the post-1945 welfare state and the idea enshrined in the post-1945 social contract that the state has a vital role to play in reducing inequalities by providing benefits and services. Courting the super rich Instead...
Sylvia Pankhurst: The Expert View
Society, Politics & Law

Sylvia Pankhurst: The Expert View

...projects in the East End to relieve distress. The ELFS weekly paper, The Women’s Dreadnought (later, The Worker’s Dreadnought), owned and edited by Sylvia, had a high circulation and was influential outside London. The ELFS moved steadily to the left during the war: it supported the Irish struggle for independence, the Russian Revolution and briefly played a role in...
Nursing associate career pathways - not just the ‘top-up’
Health, Sports & Psychology

Nursing associate career pathways - not just the ‘top-up’

...University's employability hub can help with career planning and development. Reference and acknowledgement Bates, L. (2019) Developing the nursing associate role in a critical care unit. Clinical Practice. 115 (10): 20-24 The research project informing this OpenLearn article was funded and supported by The Open University’s, Praxis Scholarship and Innovation Centre....
Reading Between the Lines: uncovering racism and homophobia in British history
History & The Arts

Reading Between the Lines: uncovering racism and homophobia in British history

...project of plural identities, rather than only for black heterosexual men (what Kimberley Crenshaw would later call intersectionality). This led to an upsurge of collective action and opened up social scenes which had been primarily white, or primarily heterosexual before. References Donoghue, E. (1993) Passions Between Women: British lesbian culture 1668-1801. London:...
Finding your way after the death of a significant person
Health, Sports & Psychology

Finding your way after the death of a significant person

...projects with the OU after writing a participatory research proposal on bereavement for my final assessment in 2023. I experienced a significant bereavement in my early school years, after my mum died of a rare form of cancer in 1999. Since then, I have gone through a series of life events that have brought up feelings of the loss of my mother in a range of ways. I have...
Film as a Historical Source
Health, Sports & Psychology

Film as a Historical Source

...projects of many sorts, in schools, colleges, local history societies, evening classes and universities are discovering new material and making it available in digital format via the Internet or on DVD. But as with all types of primary historical source material, the evidence does not “speak for itself”. It requires historical interpretation in order to reveal its...
Global English
History & The Arts

Global English

...project to make English a second language for the world's primary school children is successful, a new generation of English-knowing children will grow up who will not need English lessons in the future. As this generation of children move through the education system, secondary school children will be expected to start learning curriculum subjects such as maths and...
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Teachers sharing resources online
Education & Development

Teachers sharing resources online

...Introduction - This unit is designed to help you learn about how learning resources can be shared using online repositories, i.e. websites that allow for the uploading of electronic materials that can then be used and adapted by others. The unit comes about through collaboration between The Open University and TSL Education Ltd, the company behind one of the leading...
Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs