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The hostile environment for immigrants is drawn from a well of taken-for-granted assumptions
Society, Politics & Law

The hostile environment for immigrants is drawn from a well of taken-for-granted assumptions

...accountability [22nd June 1948, Some of the first Immigrants from the Caribbean island of Jamaica arrive at Tilbury, London, on board the ' Empire Windrush'] The policy and its political fallout is largely treated as if it was an accident, an oversight, and a personal tragedy for Amber Rudd. But, such policies are not accidents. They are the result of an indifference to...
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Settling Uncertainty? Reflections on the Scottish Independence Referendum
Society, Politics & Law

Settling Uncertainty? Reflections on the Scottish Independence Referendum

...accounts of the wider Indy movement is that it reflects a rise in national identity; of a growing sense of Scottishness – and the widening appeal of Scottish nationalism. These were repeated claims made by anti-independence politicians, before during and since September 18 2015. This is often taken to suggest Scottish exceptionalism – that there is something uniquely...
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Discovering development management
Money & Business

Discovering development management

...account leave you feeling that development management does, indeed, exist as a distinct professional and academic field? b.What would you remove from his account? What would you add? c.How does it relate to the ways in which you may be ‘doing development’? Discussion What you have just read can quite justifiably be seen as the origin, the source, of our postgraduate...
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Level 3: Advanced 3 hrs
Investigating a murder with forensic psychology
Health, Sports & Psychology

Investigating a murder with forensic psychology

...account is shown, with what the suspect claimed to be doing between certain times marked against the time points. Below the line information from witness accounts and other evidence is marked at relevant time points, allowing the discrepancies between different sources of information to be seen.] A timeline will include both physical and digital evidence (such as CCTV...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Leadership: external context and culture
Education & Development

Leadership: external context and culture

...account of and consequently the exercise of leadership. Finally the course examines the relationship between policy and leadership...Through studying this free course, Leadership: external context and culture, you will develop your understanding of the impact of external context and culture on the practice of leadership. The course begins by exploring the nature...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
How OpenLearn uses third-party content
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How OpenLearn uses third-party content

...accounts and allowing subjects of academic interest to speak for themselves (e.g. health service users; migrants) Extend the geographic range of the subjects of OpenLearn coverage beyond the UK (e.g. democracy in Bangladesh; healthcare in Syria) Include other points of view and/or opinions on subjects covered by OpenLearn The item will be published with links to other,...
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Election days: 1769 - when 296 votes beat 1148
History & The Arts

Election days: 1769 - when 296 votes beat 1148

...account for their lack of principle, all being in receipt of State patronage, or emolument of one kind or another, sufficient to prove that self-interest was their guiding principle, and that their consciences were closed by the greed of preferment. The despotic action enforced by the administration, in defiance of the principles of the constitution,—a common practice...
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The devil is in the (complex) detail
Health, Sports & Psychology

The devil is in the (complex) detail

...account of the new but disconfirmatory information, people instead strengthen their existing beliefs. This has been found to apply to climate change denial and adherents of conspiracy theories, and other political beliefs. There are indications that the backfire effect can affect politicians in the Brexit process. For example, a report warning that leaving the EU would...
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