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RIP, LEA: The local education authority vanishes
Education & Development

RIP, LEA: The local education authority vanishes

...course to becoming academies. The local authorities will leave behind a number of precious local services, their future somewhat uncertain. Despite their long life, LEAs have not been universally popular, making a number of enemies: the late Margaret Thatcher and former education secretary Keith Joseph, to name but two. Between them they killed off the Inner LEA, but the...
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Should Economics and the Environment work together?
Society, Politics & Law

Should Economics and the Environment work together?

...openness. How I personally value it hasn’t changed due to the UK National Ecosystem Assessment allowing its worth to be seen as an economically-valuable carbon sink, or a habitat to support insects that pollenate adjacent crops. But the fact it can now be recognized in this way will help it to be taken in to account even without a market. So whilst my personal opinion,...
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Rich pictures
Science, Maths & Technology

Rich pictures

...are rich pictures? These video tutorials show you how to draw rich pictures and explains why you may want to use this diagram. ...Find out more about The Open University's Computing and IT courses and qualifications What are rich pictures? How to draw rich pictures Using the Working for Water Programme (WWP) case study... Diagram guidelines Purpose Rich pictures were...
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Book, comic and animation - What is the fear collection?
Science, Maths & Technology

Book, comic and animation - What is the fear collection?

...Open University – for the funding to approach an artist and make a graphic novel version of the main book. I was successful and, working alongside Charles Cutting, ‘Project Fear’ was produced. But I was still not satisfied. I also wanted to make an animation of fear – outreach from the comic outreach! Charles came to the rescue again with wonderful images and,...
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Sofas, car seats and toilet seats: where are your tweets read?
Languages

Sofas, car seats and toilet seats: where are your tweets read?

...course - Twitter. In total I asked 13 questions as polls within a thread, and most respondents replied to all questions (the first question received 237 responses and the last one 222). All the questions asked whether users did a certain activity (watching TV, cooking, exercising) whilst they were on Twitter. For all questions there were three possible answers: yes,...
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What is Double Jeopardy?
Society, Politics & Law

What is Double Jeopardy?

...Open University’s Law qualifications. [lady justice bronze statue] The rule against double jeopardy is an important part of the criminal law of England and Wales, although exceptions to the rule were created in 2003. It means that a person cannot be tried twice for the same crime. Once they have been acquitted (found not guilty), they cannot be prosecuted again even if...
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Honour thy vulnerable witnesses
Health, Sports & Psychology

Honour thy vulnerable witnesses

...Open University's Psychology courses and qualifications. You see your partner, your friend, your colleague, your neighbour every day, but the moment you try to describe their face, you find yourself awkwardly falling into generic descriptions like “dark hair (dark brownish?), two eyes (brown I think), a mouth a bit full and under the nose which is slightly bigger than...
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Jurors who believe rape myths contribute to dismal conviction rates – but judge-only trials won’t solve the problem
Society, Politics & Law

Jurors who believe rape myths contribute to dismal conviction rates – but judge-only trials won’t solve the problem

...Open University's Law courses. After years of consultations and reports, the Scottish government is proposing to conduct a pilot to test out running rape trials with just a judge – and no jury. The conviction rate in Scotland for rape and attempted rate is woefully low. Only 51% of trials lead to a conviction, which is simply not acceptable in a modern justice system....
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