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Do we really listen to children and young people?
Education & Development

Do we really listen to children and young people?

...courses with the Open University. What do children and young people think about parenting issues? Can we make our kids clever? - take the poll What do children and young people think? - see the results What is the best way to parent through separation? - take the poll What do children and young people think? - see the results How do you get kids to behave? - take the poll...
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57 genders (and none for me?) - Part two
Society, Politics & Law

57 genders (and none for me?) - Part two

...course the change has only been rolled out in the US so far, and I'm not sure what gender terms Facebook has previously had available in South Asia, for example. However, even among those currently living in the multicultural US, there are many people who will understand and experience their genders in ways which are not captured on the list. For example, as I understand...
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Social mobility isn’t just about 18-year-olds: adults need life chances too
Society, Politics & Law

Social mobility isn’t just about 18-year-olds: adults need life chances too

...courses, the prime minister’s aspirations for a more equal society could be met through higher education. Yet the most recent data from the Higher Education Statistics Agency demonstrates that the number of students enrolling for UK part-time higher education decreased by 6% between the 2013-14 and 2014-15 academic years. The proportion of undergraduates studying...
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Mass surveillance will never be able to stop all known terrorists
Society, Politics & Law

Mass surveillance will never be able to stop all known terrorists

...course of three days, millions took to the streets to express solidarity with the victims’ families and friends, intolerance of hatred and terrorism, and to publicly acknowledge the country’s distress. Social media was alive with defences of freedom of speech and freedom from tyranny. And in a striking show of solidarity, the world’s political leaders were out in...
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London housing protests echo Glasgow rent strikes of 100 years ago
Society, Politics & Law

London housing protests echo Glasgow rent strikes of 100 years ago

...course the bedroom tax. The London protests were a reaction to the effective social cleansing of working-class residents by Tory/Lib Dem coaliton policy. Local tenants' organisations and protest groups have also been formed to co-ordinate discontent. Meanwhile, Corbyn’s Labour is proposing the biggest social-housing programme since the 1970s. This is all exactly 100...
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Let’s not talk about dying: Five reasons why people avoid planning for their end-of-life care
Health, Sports & Psychology

Let’s not talk about dying: Five reasons why people avoid planning for their end-of-life care

...to see what you would do and find out what others would do, as well as further information about care planning and decision-making. If you are interested in learning about death and dying, check out our free course on death, dying and grief or our module on death, dying and bereavement. You can learn more about my research and teaching on my Open University profile....
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Why we should remember the Armenians
Society, Politics & Law

Why we should remember the Armenians

...by the latest developments in technology. What the future shall bring to the Armenians as country and people only God knows of course. Who knows, if climate change destroys the globe through money-greed and idiocy, it is likely that mankind shall once again descend from the same mountain of Ararat. If we forget the Armenians we forget our history and imperil our future....
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How do we learn language?
Education & Development

How do we learn language?

...courses and qualifications. Human nature [A group of children sitting on the floor looking up]Humans are not the strongest, fastest, or fiercest of creatures. And yet, put a group of us together and we have been able to inhabit every continent; develop science, law, art and medicine. The rise to our current position of influence is hard to imagine were we not able to...
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