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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
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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Homo Economicus, the East India Company and industrial espionage
Society, Politics & Law

Homo Economicus, the East India Company and industrial espionage

...economic history and language...[Plant by Laura Malacart] Sara: What were the sources of inspiration for developing your current installation for the Who Are We? Project? What discoveries did you make in the process that have found a place in your artistic intervention? Laura: I addressed the question in Who Are We? with a brand new piece work. I think the most pressing...
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Reparations for slavery in Barbados
Education & Development

Reparations for slavery in Barbados

...economic exploitation. Early agricultural production centred on tobacco and later cotton which proved unsuccessful. In need of an alternative crop, and with the assistance of the Dutch, Barbados began harvesting and cultivating sugar cane. And this was the game changer. The exponential growth in demand for sugar coupled with the autonomous, finance-driven economy that had...
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