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Women and Workplace Struggles: Scotland 1900-2022
Society, Politics & Law

Women and Workplace Struggles: Scotland 1900-2022

...accounting for higher employment in many of these sectors. Several of the articles in this collection pick-up explicitly on some of the developments highlighted above and further illustrate the ways in which the value of work by women has been socially constructed with a long history of discrimination and occupational segregation. Susan Stewart, Director, OU Scotland:...
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Article 10 mins
The moral equality of combatants
History & The Arts

The moral equality of combatants

...account given by a present-day just war theorist, Uwe Steinhoff. The Jus ad Bellum ( JaB ) conditions: A legitimate authority (king, president, parliament and the like) decides on the entrance into war. One has a just cause for entering into war (for example, defence against an aggressor). One pursues the war with the right intention, namely for the purposes of a just...
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Level 3: Advanced 16 hrs
Midlife MOT: wealth, work and wellbeing
Money & Business

Midlife MOT: wealth, work and wellbeing

...accounts, your pension details, what you owe on any credit cards and loans you may have (including your mortgage). You’ll need this information as you work through your wealth check-up. So let’s get started with Activity 1. Activity 1: How are your finances currently? Timing: Allow about 45 minutes for this. Let’s start by putting your current finances under the...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
The Life of Saint Andrew
History & The Arts

The Life of Saint Andrew

...account is gathered from the sacred writings, and those of the fathers. [ Saint Andrew, holding a scroll, looks intently to his left, indicating that the panel once may have formed part of a group of icons with Christ at the center. ] A Greek image of Saint Andrew ST. ANDREW was a native of Bethsaida, a town in Galilee, upon the banks of the lake of Genesareth. He was the...
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Article 5 mins
Global challenges in practice: designing a development intervention
Money & Business

Global challenges in practice: designing a development intervention

...accountability. They typically include both technical and political aspects. These interventions may be intended to address issues of inequality, division and institutional failure. Most meso-level interventions will be targeted at state institutions and are thus just as ideologically and politically coloured as macro-level interventions. Debates tend to focus on the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
A blow to the head; a blow to rugby?
Health, Sports & Psychology

A blow to the head; a blow to rugby?

...accounts for 29% of all injuries associated with illegal play, but only 9% of injuries sustained in legal play (Gardner, Iverson, Levi, Schofield, Kay-Lambkin et al., 2015). Accordingly, Roberts, Trewartha, England, and Stokes (2015) investigated collapsed scrums and collision tackles, and found that injury prevention in the tackle should focus on technique, with strict...
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Article 5 mins
How can the Hajj be made safer?
History & The Arts

How can the Hajj be made safer?

...account for a number of features of crowds such as that at the Hajj. Modelling the Hajj This has several important implications for existing simulations of the event. For example, they can’t predict how different groups favour different locations in the Hajj, such as the Shia preference for worshipping in the open. This is particularly important due to the variety of...
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Article 5 mins
Voters might not love Europe - but that doesn't mean they'll leave
Society, Politics & Law

Voters might not love Europe - but that doesn't mean they'll leave

...accounts for voters’ relative reluctance to back withdrawal from the EU. Among those who think the economy would be worse off if Britain left, just 6% actually support withdrawal. Even among those who think leaving would not make much difference, only 31% support want to head for the exit. Only among the minority who think that the economy would be better off if Britain...
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Article 5 mins