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Can quotas make gender equality happen in politics? Lessons from business
Society, Politics & Law

Can quotas make gender equality happen in politics? Lessons from business

...analysis of a data we’ve collected using interviews on Labour’s use of all-women shortlists points towards some optimistic but also some depressing conclusions. The positive: gender equality advocates have won a series of pitched battles to get all-women selections for the safest parliamentary seats. These have sometimes been bitter, with an early setback in the Welsh...
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Everyday maths 1
Science, Maths & Technology

Everyday maths 1

...data in the following table. It gives the temperatures of five cities on a Monday in January. CITY TEMPERATURE London 0°C Paris –1°C Madrid 10°C Delhi 28°C Moscow –10°C a.Which city was the coldest? b.Which city was the warmest? c.How many cities have a temperature below 5°C? You buy a jumper for £24 and a skirt for £18. How much do you spend altogether? You...
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Differences and Similarities: Policing in the US and the UK
Education & Development

Differences and Similarities: Policing in the US and the UK

...analysis of data from 100 million traffic stops across US police forces) From April 2018 to March 2019, there were 38 stop and searches for every 1,000 Black people compared to 4 stop and searches for every 1,000 White people in England and Wales Black Americans are 5.9 times more likely to be arrested and incarcerated compared to White Americans Black people were over 3...
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People, automobiles and statistics
Science, Maths & Technology

People, automobiles and statistics

...data was obtained the sex of the participants from whom the data were obtained four columns of figures describing the mean, standard deviation and the 5th and 95th percentiles the source of the survey – this turns out to be vital since some of the data is taken from quite narrow sections of the population. The main part of the handbook, which is section 7, uses this...
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Everyday maths: statistics in the news
Science, Maths & Technology

Everyday maths: statistics in the news

...we see or hear. By the end of this activity, you will learn: how to read and ask questions about health data and reports in the news how to look at graphs and charts, and make sure they don't mislead you general rules to follow when looking at statistics in the news. [Activity banner image. Everyday maths: statistics in the news.] Everyday maths: statistics in the news...
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Online mathematics discovery centre
Science, Maths & Technology

Online mathematics discovery centre

...Data, finance, economics and more. It is a fundamental tool enabling us to analyse and comprehend the world around us, and to solve some of the most urgent problems facing society in today’s complex world. Maths is a varied and broad subject which crops up everywhere and when you least expect it. See the patterns, structures, discoveries, applications and people of...
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Postgraduate study in psychology and criminology
Health, Sports & Psychology

Postgraduate study in psychology and criminology

...towards critical analysis and knowledge application in the latter blocks. The wide range of real-life topics draw on crime, harm and justice, and include terrorism, corporate crime, occupy movements, the dark web, poverty, imprisonment and human trafficking. Where next? To experience a free taster of these modules, why not check out their related OpenLearn courses?...
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The awarding gap at The Open University
Education & Development

The awarding gap at The Open University

...data on the awarding gap by Higher Education Institutions (HEI) (Singh, 2009). Participation in HE from BME students increased indirectly due to the widening participation agenda (Dearing Report, 1997, cited in Singh, 2009; Kennedy, 1997), but not every student benefitted equally (UUK/NUS, 2019). The National Union of Students (NUS) first highlighted the issue in 2011 in...
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