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How happiness is challenging GDP as the measure of a country’s health
Society, Politics & Law

How happiness is challenging GDP as the measure of a country’s health

...economic output – was much lower down. The US came 18th, the UK 19th and China 86th. This goes to show that GDP is by no means a conclusive measure of well-being and the report reflects moves to recognise this. In fact, the report found a strong correlation between inequality and unhappiness. In both the US and UK, the ability to have your rubbish cleared away is an...
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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

...economic background – dedicated learner support and inclusive materials are embedded in the student experience. With 16% of our undergraduates declaring a disability, the university also targets them with pre-entry advice and technologies, including specialist equipment to support study independence. This ranges from voice recognition software for physically disabled...
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Explore the range of migrant experiences: Play Uneven Journeys
Society, Politics & Law

Explore the range of migrant experiences: Play Uneven Journeys

...economic migrant and an investor might take to the UK. As the Syrian refugee crisis was high on the political agenda, Agnes, Nele and Nele’s partner at Goller&Vos, Alexander, thought it important to portray the unevenness of the journeys by focussing on a Syrian asylum seeker trying to find safe-haven in the UK. As you traverse Syria, Turkey and Europe in the asylum...
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Lottery of birth
Health, Sports & Psychology

Lottery of birth

...economics. This interdisciplinary nature brings different perspectives together to create fresh insights and provide a bridge for different ideas to feed into social and political change. Towards the end of the course, you'll have the opportunity to critically analyse an initiative of your choosing from your own country. The course does not assume any prior knowledge of...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Remaking the relations of work and welfare
Society, Politics & Law

Remaking the relations of work and welfare

...economic, developmental and social purposes of welfare programmes based on work identify appropriate evidence for assessing such programmes, and make a critical evaluation of it...Remaking the relations of work and welfare: 1 Welfare, work and social policy: an overview - On 29 February 2000, a 6-year-old boy in his first year at Buell School, Beecher, in the town of...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Mass production and the consequent devaluation of our clothes
Nature & Environment

Mass production and the consequent devaluation of our clothes

...economically sustainable in the long-term for the growing population of fashion consumers. Fast forward to today’s efficient mass production model, with vertical disintegration and outsourcing of manufacture to unknown people in faraway factories, and we are now very much removed from the process of our clothes being made. With mass production and fast fashion, we have...
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International Management
Money & Business

International Management

...economic institutions of other countries in order to maintain and run a successful business. This series looks at three different perspectives on managing across different national contexts as we hear from experienced international managers and from academics around the world about managing globally. This material forms part of the Open University course B848 Leadership...
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Free School Meals: An OpenLearn reading list
Education & Development

Free School Meals: An OpenLearn reading list

...economic classification. Since 2007, the FYPSEC publication was produced annually and reflected the proportion of young people from the top three and bottom four socio-economic classes who participated for the first time in full-time higher education. The publication also included an annex that reproduced some of the other published measures of widening participation...
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