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After Manchester: The strength of the city
Digital & Computing

After Manchester: The strength of the city

...work and children will go to school. As one head teacher put it in an email to parents today: Normality is a comfort in difficult times. But we must brace ourselves for what will inevitably emerge in the coming days. As the identities of the victims, some of them children, are revealed and we see their innocent faces, the true horror of this attack will hit us. And what...
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SMEs and Net Zero – challenges and opportunities
Money & Business

SMEs and Net Zero – challenges and opportunities

...work is fairly obvious and mundane – insulating buildings, converting to low carbon energy, sourcing, reusing and recycling materials locally. There is no need to wait for another wave of high-tech innovation to save us, but we do need to invest substantial amounts in developing the necessary skills and knowledge so that we can implement (existing) technologies...
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Which Poverty and Place: Why how we label different areas matters
Languages

Which Poverty and Place: Why how we label different areas matters

...work tests and incapacity benefits. London poverty was realised in unaffordable house prices and living costs. Rochdale was labelled ‘the most deprived area of England’ and the ‘sick note capital’ of Britain. And one newspaper even published a ‘Workshy map of Britain’, singling out areas such as Birmingham and Glasgow for scrutiny. Thus, we could see that...
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Let your money do the talking: fossil fuel divestment and COP26
Nature & Environment

Let your money do the talking: fossil fuel divestment and COP26

...work; in higher education, many universities are setting goals consistent with COP26’s aims and the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals, often spurred on by student pressure. More than half of UK universities have already committed to divest or have already divested (over £15 billion) and many have reinvested a significant ­­­­proportion of these funds in...
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What sort of Victoria Sponge would Queen Victoria have eaten?
History & The Arts

What sort of Victoria Sponge would Queen Victoria have eaten?

...work of food historians, you can recreate Victoria's Victoria sponge...Mrs Beeton would have been a disaster on Great British Bake Off. In her first published recipe – “A Good Sponge Cake” – the famed Victorian domestic goddess forgot to explain how much flour was required. Hardly a trifling oversight – but nothing that would have troubled Bake Off finalists,...
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Horror and politics
History & The Arts

Horror and politics

...works in which the institution of marriage was assailed and love promoted as a partnership of equals. For Shelley, the ideas in these books were a design for living. By the end of the twentieth century, of course, ideas of free love were not nearly as politically subversive as they were in the 1810s. But in Gothic, Russell nevertheless exploits this element of the story...
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The selective breeding of dogs
Science, Maths & Technology

The selective breeding of dogs

...work? Why are poodles and German Shepherds different? What about designer dogs? This science article explores...Find out more about The Open University's Biology qualification. [Small puppy laying in the grass in a park] When an interesting or useful trait is identified in a dog, owners would breed from that dog in the hope of the trait being passed on. Over many rounds...
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Integrated education in Northern Ireland - or divide and sectarianism?
Society, Politics & Law

Integrated education in Northern Ireland - or divide and sectarianism?

...work against integration in Northern Ireland hurt deeply. But as the DUP and most parties in the Assembly have embraced the language of a shared future, and see the economic benefits of reduced duplication involved with parallel education sectors, as the largest provider the Catholic hierarchy can be seen as vulnerable to the old accusations that by persisting with their...
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