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Is Brexit going to unseat English as the lingua franca?
Languages

Is Brexit going to unseat English as the lingua franca?

...universities across Europe and beyond. Persian provides another example: after Iran fell to the Arab invasion, Persian became the language of the army that spread Islam into Central and South East Asia, and was then taken up by Turks, Mongols and, in fact, all Muslim rulers of the region as the administrative language of their realms. Latin and Persian thrived as...
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Methods in Motion: What does Open Methodologies mean?
Society, Politics & Law

Methods in Motion: What does Open Methodologies mean?

...universal human, or social. Instead, the knowledges, practices, experiences and capabilities of a person or people are built by the tools, networks and expertise that make up their particular way of life. This includes their ways of knowing about social and personal life. Whilst the person and their situation are indivisible, their situation is more than a minor variation...
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British public open to compromise on Brexit deal, new research finds
Society, Politics & Law

British public open to compromise on Brexit deal, new research finds

...University of Cambridge, used an economic approach known as “stated preference discrete choice experiments” to measure how the British public value different components of a Brexit deal. This is more rigorous than traditional polling, and involved interviews with 917 people, drawn from those who participated in the British Social Attitudes survey. We asked people to...
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Could volunteering be bad for our health?
Society, Politics & Law

Could volunteering be bad for our health?

...University reported research into the role of ‘lay health workers’ delivering services in English communities, describing this as a form of citizen participation. In a lively blog piece one of the authors, Mark Gamsu, stated “I think that there is a strong relationship between the number and quality of volunteers and the effectiveness of work to increase...
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What is emotive language and why is it used?
History & The Arts

What is emotive language and why is it used?

...University's Language courses and qualifications. [Talking with a forked tongue? A snake] Speaking with a forked tongue? Ever wanted to convince an audience of your point of view – maybe at an office presentation, or even over a beer with friends – but found yourself lost for the right way to put it? OpenLearn has joined with philosopher Nigel Warburton to grapple...
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The Iliad: List of characters
History & The Arts

The Iliad: List of characters

...University's Classical Studies courses and qualifications The hero Achilles is the son of the mortal Peleus, and Thetis, an immortal sea nymph. He is the greatest Greek warrior in the story of the Trojan War; the plot of Homer’s Iliad is driven by Achilles’ anger. When Achilles was born his mother tried to make him immortal by dipping him in the River Styx, but the...
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The Odyssey: List of characters
History & The Arts

The Odyssey: List of characters

...University's Classical Studies courses Odysseus is the king of Ithaca, and one of the Greek heroes who joined in the Greek expedition to Troy, leaving his wife Penelope and infant son Telemachus behind. He has a reputation for clever speaking and cunning; the ruse of the Trojan Horse by means of which the Greeks finally sacked Troy after ten years of war is said to have...
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Upset forging
Science, Maths & Technology

Upset forging

...University's Science courses and qualifications Horizontal forging [Diagram to demonstrate 'Upset forging' - see article] [Diagram to demonstrate 'Upset forging' - see article] Horizontal forging machines increase the cross-sectional area of a portion of the bar. Forgings are produced while still attached to the ends of the bar stock. The length of bar to be headed or...
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