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The 2015 Autumn Statement: First responses
Society, Politics & Law

The 2015 Autumn Statement: First responses

...out government spending plans up to 2020. These involve big cuts to Whitehall and welfare, but also promises including a new phase of house building and no cuts to the controversial police budget. Our experts from across the sectors give their thoughts on how the axe has fallen. [George Osborne] The Economy Michael Kitson, lecturer in global macroeconomics at Cambridge...
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Three Irish Poets – Ellen O'Leary
OpenLearn Ireland

Three Irish Poets – Ellen O'Leary

...out tangled locks, And, pressed to her bosom, the baby she rocks. He lies in his cot, there's a fire on the hearth; To Eily and Eddy 'tis heaven on earth, For mother's deft fingers have been everywhere; She lulls them to rest in the low suggaun 1 chair. They gaze open-eyed, then the eyes gently close, As petals fold into the heart of a rose, But ope soon again in awe,...
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Privatising Thames Water
Money & Business

Privatising Thames Water

...out in dividends far more than it has actually earned from its cash flows. Over the same five period up to 2012, when debts were continuing to increase, the total dividends paid out to investors added up to £1.8bn. The use of leveraged debt to pay dividend payments is a way of making use of future income streams for the benefit of investors rather than for customers. As...
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Identifying Values – Finding the Things that Matter the Most to You for the Way You Live and Work
Health, Sports & Psychology

Identifying Values – Finding the Things that Matter the Most to You for the Way You Live and Work

...out why this dissonance has occurred. We may be aware of the unpleasant feelings but be unaware that these were caused by this cognitive inconsistency (Gawronski and Bodenhausen, 2012). Put more simply, cognitive dissonance theory is about how we try to make sense of our environment and behaviour and try to lead lives that are (to us) sensible and meaningful (Aronson,...
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Scoring the Shoreline
History & The Arts

Scoring the Shoreline

...out upon the ocean to be seduced by an enchanted island, also relates Celtic myth to the power of the sea. The work is a ghostly invocation of the hero Cuchulain under the spell of the abandoned wife of the god of the ocean. Like Bax, Vaughan Williams draws on an Irish example to portray the sea as a cruelly dispassionate arbiter of human fate. Riders to the Sea (1937)...
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Home education as a provocation for the future of education
Education & Development

Home education as a provocation for the future of education

...out an invitation to all education stakeholders to participate in policy discussion, research and innovation to transform education...[Paper illustration - lots of hands reaching for the world in the sky] We all are called to engage in a dialogue based on two fundamental principles: the right to quality education throughout life, and education as a public endeavour and a...
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Impossible Peace 2: On a wing and a prayer
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Impossible Peace 2: On a wing and a prayer

...out.” The IRA did not add to the detail. Yet, in 2007, Ian Paisley entered government with Martin McGuinness, and de Chastelain’s attention turned to the weapons held by the loyalist organisation. [Photograph of Harold Good. He is sitting with his boiler suit in the background. He is holding the picture with the prayer in his hand, looking at the camera.]The Preacher...
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Mothering at the Margins: Amplifying and validating the voices of Black mothers of autistic children
Education & Development

Mothering at the Margins: Amplifying and validating the voices of Black mothers of autistic children

...out of the informality and authenticity of friendship, we had distilled our research interests into a deceptively straightforward question: ‘what is it like to be a Black mother raising an autistic child in the UK’? At its core, this is a query rooted in intersectionality. From our own experiences, we knew that the challenges facing any parent-advocate are relentless...
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