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All my own work: exploring academic integrity Badge icon
Education & Development

All my own work: exploring academic integrity

...research’ will be a skill fundamental to study and practice. Quite often, to develop that skill, law students will face a task whereby they have to construct the answer, moving from source to source to ensure any updates are covered. This ‘trail’ requires such findings to be logged so that, at any given time, if prompted or challenged on what an authority for such a...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Dutch painting of the Golden Age
History & The Arts

Dutch painting of the Golden Age

...centred on the purported realism of these paintings and the highly problematic assumption that they provide a comprehensive ‘pictorial record’ of life in the Dutch Republic (Slive, 1995, p. 1). This OpenLearn course is an adapted extract from the Open University course A226 Exploring art and visual culture. Figure 1 Johannes Vermeer, The Milkmaid, 1658–60, oil on...
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Level 2: Intermediate 4 hrs
Queen Victoria on the Chartists
History & The Arts

Queen Victoria on the Chartists

...Children appeared at our luncheon. Papa thinks the Baby, so like Albert. The accounts from Manchester are dreadful - such disturbances, as also in some other parts, near Sheffield, &c Drove out with Papa & Alexandrine, Albert & Ernest, &c, riding. We drove to the Stud & showed Papa all the horses. We also looked at the Hunters. I never felt anything like the heat On...
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Article 5 mins
How can Wikipedia Activism restore diversity to science?
Science, Maths & Technology

How can Wikipedia Activism restore diversity to science?

...children and families. Her work should have upturned our habit of talking about “nature versus nurture” – a dichotomy that doesn’t take social determinants into account. Here’s how she neatly wove that in: Strength abounds in Harlem. Three hundred years of oppression and it survives. This is the task in Harlem, to see strength where it exists, to expect it to be...
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DIY: Make Your Own Soap
Science, Maths & Technology

DIY: Make Your Own Soap

...children and animals well away from your workspace and chemicals. Always work in a well-ventilated area (if possible, outside), and avoid working on your own. Procedure FIRST PUT ON YOUR PROTECTIVE GLOVES, APRON AND SPECTACLES It’s advisable to do this first step outside. Stirring continuously, gradually add the sodium hydroxide carefully to 200cm3 of cold distilled...
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Article 15 mins
Making a difference: Janet Cassidy's life as a union representative
Society, Politics & Law

Making a difference: Janet Cassidy's life as a union representative

...children were small and she had to rely on her parents for childcare support during her shifts. There were no flexible working or family friendly policies then, and she has fought for years through the STUC and the TUC to develop provision for shift workers. This is still something she campaigns on, both through the branch and with the Clydebank Trades Council, as it...
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Article 5 mins
From dreams to reality: becoming a nurse and educator
Health, Sports & Psychology

From dreams to reality: becoming a nurse and educator

...children. Every day is a challenge and I feel like I am constantly juggling plates between work, studying, housework and being a mum. Childhood I was talking to my mum about my childhood, and discussing how busy our lives were. Like me, she was a single mum who was working full-time and studying. She explained how every teacher described me as being ‘a lovely, kind and...
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Article 5 mins
Black Majority Churches (BMCs) and the transformation of British Christianity
History & The Arts

Black Majority Churches (BMCs) and the transformation of British Christianity

...children. It was these dreams that brought them to the UK, dragging my eldest siblings from the sunshine of Jamaica to the cold and fog of the Motherland. Opportunity knocks. Mum and Dad had the “usual roles” of a nurse at the local hospital and semi-skilled worker at a car factory. Every Sunday, most Wednesday evenings, lots of Friday evenings and a few Saturdays,...
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Video 40 mins