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SMEs and Net Zero – challenges and opportunities
Money & Business

SMEs and Net Zero – challenges and opportunities

...is needed to ensure that businesses owned by ethnic minorities and women, rural-based SMEs and those affected most by COVID-19 do not lose out. References Blundel, R. and Hampton, S. (2021) How Can SMEs Contribute to Net Zero?: An Evidence Review. Enterprise Research Centre, Warwick [Screenshot of animation for COP26] Click on the banner to explore the COP26 hub...
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Lady Llanover, Welsh airs and national harmony
History & The Arts

Lady Llanover, Welsh airs and national harmony

...out more about The Open University’s music courses_.  _ At the 1837 Abergavenny Eisteddfod, a prize was offered for ‘For the best collection of original unpublished Welsh airs, with the words as sung by the peasantry of Wales’. It was won by Maria Jane Williams, with a collection that was published in 1844 as Ancient and National Airs of Gwent and Morganwg. So...
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‘Bread of Heaven’ – Singing from the same hymn sheet?
History & The Arts

‘Bread of Heaven’ – Singing from the same hymn sheet?

...out more about The Open University’s music courses_.  _ A small number of hymns are so familiar to many Welsh people that it might be tempting to say, for example, that ‘everyone knows ‘Bread of Heaven’’. However, examination of the textual and musical histories of many of the best-known Welsh hymns often reveals complicated stories that can be difficult to...
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Let your money do the talking: fossil fuel divestment and COP26
Nature & Environment

Let your money do the talking: fossil fuel divestment and COP26

...out that divestment alone is unlikely to solve the climate crisis. Arguments against it, highlight that divestment predominantly impacts International Oil Companies (IOCs) that produce only 10% of global oil, with little impact on National Oil Companies who produce the majority and are usually less transparent than IOCs. Others worry that if investors disengage from...
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The selective breeding of dogs
Science, Maths & Technology

The selective breeding of dogs

...out more about The Open University's Biology qualification. [Small puppy laying in the grass in a park] When an interesting or useful trait is identified in a dog, owners would breed from that dog in the hope of the trait being passed on. Over many rounds of such breeding attempts, especially where two dogs with the same trait are bred with each other, traits became...
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Irish Women’s Poetry: Colette Bryce
OpenLearn Ireland

Irish Women’s Poetry: Colette Bryce

...In her interview with Adam Wyeth in 2020, Colette Bryce explains she ‘never set out to write “about” The Troubles’. Her work never makes blunt political statements. One of her favourite poetry sayings is Robert Frost’s ‘Poetry is about the grief; politics is about the grievance.’ Her very particular upbringing has given us poems of complexity and compassion. [Photo: Sign on the N56 reminding travellers that they are ......
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Do we really listen to children and young people?
Education & Development

Do we really listen to children and young people?

...with the Diana Award. In addition, children and young people can design and carry out their own research as a way of informing local community and national policy and practice. Our research at the Open University’s Children’s Research Centre focuses on different aspects of participation in education, health and social care (for example Kerawalla’s 2014 research exploring participation through inclusive inquiry). ......
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How can nature help us meet the climate challenge in towns and cities?
Nature & Environment

How can nature help us meet the climate challenge in towns and cities?

...out nature-based solutions now is the strong and explicit drive to understand how nature can reduce the extent of climate change, and help our societies adapt to the climate change impacts we will face. [Photo of a modern city surrounded by jungle in Malaysia.] Nature in towns and cities Nature-based solutions can straddle land and sea, and cover a very large scale like a...
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