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Why maps are made
Society, Politics & Law

Why maps are made

...statistics and spoken words...Why maps are made: 3.3 Maps and the modern world - Maps play a fundamental role in the functioning of modern Western societies. They are important as legal documents in both the public and private spheres: your proof of the boundaries of your property as well as the location of international borders. Maps are important in military campaigns,...
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Assessing risk in engineering, work and life
Science, Maths & Technology

Assessing risk in engineering, work and life

...statistics...Assessing risk in engineering, work and life: 1.3 Assessing risk - Engineers and other professionals need to be able to assess potential risks. This is the first stage in the process of deciding which risks are acceptable. This in turn allows priorities to be assigned to developing and implementing strategies to reduce risks. What types of risk might you look...
Budget 2016: The Experts Respond
Society, Politics & Law

Budget 2016: The Experts Respond

...Statistics’ discovery that GDP in cash terms was £18 billion – smaller it they had previously thought. This means fewer tax revenues are forecast to come in over the next five years. The Chancellor made three fiscal pledges to cap welfare, reduce debt as a share of GDP and deliver a budget surplus by 2019-20. The first two promises are out of the window, so to avoid...
London inside out
Society, Politics & Law

London inside out

...statistics – the kind that are so bad it is difficult to know how to receive them. The world's richest 500 people own more wealth than the poorest 416 million. And it is not just a problem of the super-rich: Europeans spend more on perfume each year that the $7billion needed to provide 2.6 billion people with access to clean water. London is a crucial node in the...
Adaptation and Assimilation: The Irish Catholic Experience in America
OpenLearn Ireland

Adaptation and Assimilation: The Irish Catholic Experience in America

...Statistics Office (CSO) in April 2022, about 13% of the Irish population are foreign born (CSO, 2022). While people from Ireland continue to make their way to America in search of adventure and greater opportunity, Ireland, like the United States, has itself become a nation of immigrants with the attraction of lucrative careers and a much sought after lifestyle. The...
CARE-KNOW-DO for Social and Emotional Learning: building children’s resilience and agency in crisis settings
Education & Development

CARE-KNOW-DO for Social and Emotional Learning: building children’s resilience and agency in crisis settings

...A. et. al. (2025, under review). Transforming Catch-Up Education in Emergency Contexts: From Practice to Theory Grounded in Children’s Experiences UNESCO Institute for Statistics. (2017). More than one-half of children and adolescents are not learning worldwide. https://uis.unesco.org/sites/default/files/documents/fs46-more-than-half-children-not-learning-en-2017.pdf...
Challenging ideas in mental health
Health, Sports & Psychology

Challenging ideas in mental health

...statistics. CHANELLE MYRIE There are lots of reasons why young Black men are being sectioned more. One reason is that Black men come to the mental health system later than their white counterparts, and that's for fear of being hospitalized, fear of being stigmatized. They arrive at hospital at crisis point, really. DAVID HAREWOOD Let me just-- I'm going to go to for my...
Religious diversity: rethinking religion
History & The Arts

Religious diversity: rethinking religion

...Statistics, December 2012. This chart is licensed under the Open Government Licence 3.0, http://reference.data.gov.uk/id/open-government-licence The largest section of the population is represented in orange, those who identify with the general label of ‘Christian’. This included 69% of the population of England and Wales in the 2011 census (White, 2012). In Scotland,...