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Meet the OU experts behind 'Hospital'
Health, Sports & Psychology

Meet the OU experts behind 'Hospital'

...care interventions at all levels of the organisation. Over six episodes you will see staff working within highly stressed environments – often having to manage resource demands that don’t stretch sufficiently to accommodate all needs; you will meet patients – many with complex care needs who are faced with uncertainty about treatment; you will see staff frustrated...
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Will Brexit force British retirees to return from Spain?
Money & Business

Will Brexit force British retirees to return from Spain?

...care and support. They had been getting by with support from friends or voluntary organisations that operate in Spain. However, since the EU referendum, their lives have become fragile and uncertain. Health and pensions By and large the main concern for these pensioners is healthcare and whether they will still be able to access free healthcare once the UK leaves the EU....
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Changemakers
Society, Politics & Law

Changemakers

...care about, affect you or your community or family? Small actions can lead to big changes...Be a changemaker We live at a time of Welsh, UK, and global challenges—but, also, a time of possibility and opportunity. How can ordinary young Welsh citizens make a difference to these challenges? How can they be active citizens? How can they be Changemakers? We’ll show you...
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Do enforced language tests help migrants integrate more smoothly?
Languages

Do enforced language tests help migrants integrate more smoothly?

...adults who arrive in Australia under different visa classes. This policy will inevitably lead to two classes of permanent Australian residents, one of them an underclass without access to the privileges of citizenship. Is this what the Australian government wants? It is beyond question that English is the national language of Australia but we also need to recognize that...
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We learn, together: exploring familial learning in home education
Education & Development

We learn, together: exploring familial learning in home education

...adults. Furthermore, of those adults, it is likely that most respondents will have been home-educating mothers (or female adult). These responses were discussed in the Photovoice stage of the research where young people were able to discuss their part in answering the survey. Graph 1: Q5 Indicate how much value you place on the given statements (Highest Value –v- Lowest...
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Methods in Motion: The middle children
Languages

Methods in Motion: The middle children

...adults, and can involve conversations that are sensitive or tricky to navigate. Creative methods formed an important part of my study Child Language Brokering: Spaces of Belonging and Mediators of Cultural Knowledge (funded by the AHRC under the Translating Cultures Innovation Pathway). In conjunction with more traditional social science methods, it aimed to provide new...
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How can your accent put your life at risk?
Languages

How can your accent put your life at risk?

...adult NESB migrants here at Macquarie University, we have met highly qualified job applicants whose skills were obscured by their accents; capable and diligent students who were considered lazy and poorly motivated on the basis of their English expression; or consumers who did not manage to return faulty products within the warranty period because shop assistants...
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Why isn't Doctor Who a vegan?
History & The Arts

Why isn't Doctor Who a vegan?

...care about the loss of human lives that might result, and not the many other species living on Earth. In the episode “Cold Earth” from 2010, Smith’s Doctor becomes involved in negotiations for humans to “share” the planet with Silurians, a species of “homo reptilians” who lived on Earth before humans evolved. In the debate over whether there is room for both...
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