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The Great Resignation: temporary blip or more enduring labour market trend?
Money & Business

The Great Resignation: temporary blip or more enduring labour market trend?

...out more about The Open University's Business and Management courses and qualifications. We heard a lot during the COVID-19 pandemic about people in the UK being temporarily furloughed or, in many other cases, losing their jobs entirely. However, one of the other effects was the so-called Great Resignation, also known as the Great Work Reshuffle, or the Big Quit. As...
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Avoid being held to ransom by SamSam
Digital & Computing

Avoid being held to ransom by SamSam

...out-of-date software. It appears that SamSam’s owners manually attack these computers before installing SamSam – there are some suggestions that part of Atlanta’s computer systems were compromised by SamSam’s owners during 2017, although they took no action until March. Once activated, SamSam spreads rapidly across the company’s network before locking the data,...
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The nature of history
Education & Development

The nature of history

...out more about The Open University's History courses and qualifications [World War I soldiers [Posed by actors]] “I often think it odd that it should be so dull, for a good deal of it must be invention”: exclaimed Catherine Morland in Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey, when discussing history. I hope to demonstrate to you and Miss Morland in this often quoted outburst...
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Why Study Philosophers?
History & The Arts

Why Study Philosophers?

...out of the way immediately. All of these people had general thoughts at a reflective level and, to that extent, they were philosophers. One might think that if that is all it takes to be a philosopher then we are all philosophers. This seems to me an altogether happy conclusion: we all do philosophy at least some of the time. To put things another way, philosophy is an...
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'Can anybody hear us?' The Day After, 40 years on
History & The Arts

'Can anybody hear us?' The Day After, 40 years on

...out to ordinary lives when Kansas City is hit with a Russian missile, the film was said to have left even President Reagan shaken. Luc-André Brunet, Senior Lecturer in History, and Mark Fryers, Lecturer in Film & Media, sat down to discuss the political and social impact of the film to mark the 40th anniversary of its broadcast. Q: What was the climate of 1983? How did...
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Why is snow so hard to predict?
Nature & Environment

Why is snow so hard to predict?

...out of ten such a forecast will be perceived as “wrong” (though it may be, on its own terms, a perfect forecast). While false alarms might be expensive, and lead to the danger that people don’t pay heed to the next one (“crying wolf”), it’s better to be safe than sorry. Response must be weighed against both the severity of the event and its likelihood....
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On the loss of a baby
Health, Sports & Psychology

On the loss of a baby

...out and brought back a souvenir from a trip on baby’s birthday. Many parents engage in awareness and fund raising events such as marathons, midnight walks or facilitate sports clubs, such as Sands United football teams developed by and for bereaved Dads. It is important to enable parents to find a way of being supported and to remember their baby in a way which feels...
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We learn, together: exploring familial learning in home education
Education & Development

We learn, together: exploring familial learning in home education

...out more about The Open University’s Childhood and Youth Studies qualification. This includes a significant number of families choosing to keep children’s learning outside of formal schooling following the COVID lockdowns of 2020 and 2021. Some suggest that the numbers of home-educated children are vastly under-represented in surveys done by local authorities and data...
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