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The unique relationship between the fig and the fig wasp
Nature & Environment

The unique relationship between the fig and the fig wasp

...courses and qualifications Earth is a set of interconnected systems where changes in one small thing can have knock-on effects to many othersEverything is connected to everything else. That’s one of the themes that runs through A Perfect Planet. The Earth is a set of interconnected systems where changes in one small thing can have knock-on effects to many others. One of...
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Review: The Digital Academic - Critical Perspectives on Digital Technologies in Higher Education
Education & Development

Review: The Digital Academic - Critical Perspectives on Digital Technologies in Higher Education

...Courses (MOOCs), flipped classrooms, open access research – all of these impact on academic work and academic workers. In trying to make sense of this new world, discourse around digital technology in the academe can often result in polarising categories. On the one hand, we find the glorified hype of the Web 2.0. version of the university: the digital classrooms of the...
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Birth of the Welfare State
History & The Arts

Birth of the Welfare State

...Observed: Mass Observation and the Beveridge Report' by J. Jacobs, from Beveridge 1942- 1992: Papers to Mark the 50th Anniversary of the Beveridge Report edited by J Jacobs, J, Whiting and Birch Books About this extract This article is adapted from the study material from the Open University course Understanding Health & Social Care. Read articles on personal finance...
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Exercising at 50
Health, Sports & Psychology

Exercising at 50

...Accessed 19 March 2019). Read the other articles in this collection Now take a free related course Discover more about exercising Study with the OU...
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How can acceptance and commitment therapy help carers in challenging times such as the COVID-19 pandemic?
Health, Sports & Psychology

How can acceptance and commitment therapy help carers in challenging times such as the COVID-19 pandemic?

...courses and qualifications. The COVID-19 pandemic has been a time of great stress for carers. They have endured decreased access to support services and social support, decreased time to look after themselves and difficulties maintaining the physical and emotional health of themselves and their loved one, in the face of national and local restrictions. For many carers,...
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Review: Chavs - The Demonization of the Working Class
Society, Politics & Law

Review: Chavs - The Demonization of the Working Class

...course, but British history goes back a bit further than 1979 and the Tory damage to manufacturing and the social fabric of this country he so well describes. The weary victor of the Second World War, admiring ally of the United States in the Cold War and its "terror" successor, and home to the City of London seeking new ways to assert its influence after the formal...
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Signposts for Work
Health, Sports & Psychology

Signposts for Work

...courses to help develop skills and knowledge towards preparing for new work or enhancing a current career journey...The workplace and our society face many current challenging situations. You may have experienced considerable changes to your own working life, whether as an employer or employee, self-employed or business owner, or currently without paid work. However,...
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Life as a Railway Worker: An Oral History Testimony by Nan Zaimaitas nee Lamont
Society, Politics & Law

Life as a Railway Worker: An Oral History Testimony by Nan Zaimaitas nee Lamont

...courses. Introducing Nan Zaimaitas by Angela MacGregor I first met Nan at the start of my own career in the Scottish Railways. You would be forgiven for overlooking this unassuming woman as being ‘nobody important’, as she sat quietly in Rail Maritime and Transport (RMT) branch meetings while other voices were raised, and tempers frayed. Then Nan would speak quietly...
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