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What should I expect when I am nearing the end of my life?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What should I expect when I am nearing the end of my life?

...out about The Open University's Health and Social Care courses and qualifications. In the UK, many deaths occur in hospital and few people have witnessed someone dying. This article addresses some of the common key questions people have about dying and the end of life, written by a palliative care consultant, Victoria Hedges, as part of The Ageing Well Public Talk (AWPT)...
Explainer: how hostile is space?
Science, Maths & Technology

Explainer: how hostile is space?

...out there to collect important information and provide vital services. The temperature variation in space can be enormous. If an astronaut’s back is facing the sun and the front is not, the temperature difference can be as much as 275°F.Beyond the risk of colliding with other objects in space, there are four main dangers for such electronic devices: the empty vacuum,...
Will more money for the NHS deliver for midwife services?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Will more money for the NHS deliver for midwife services?

...out of the woods. The £8bn funding agreed as part of the NHS Five Year Plan was aimed at plugging the spending gap. If the government is genuine about delivering new models of care and 7 day services across the NHS, then further investment will be needed. We can’t continue to rely on the goodwill of an over-stretched and under-valued workforce providing free over time....
Highs and lows and highs again: How football has changed in the past 50 years
Health, Sports & Psychology

Highs and lows and highs again: How football has changed in the past 50 years

...out £204,028 on wages in comparison to the £264 million spent by Manchester City in the 2016-2017 season, with Kevin de Bruyne alone earning £280,000 a week. Manchester City have also benefitted from the sale of clubs to wealthy, overseas investors, in this case the Abu Dhabi United Group owned by Sheikh Mansoor. This is in part due to the attractiveness of the Premier...
What makes people happy at work?
Money & Business

What makes people happy at work?

...out in order to help a particular employee to work against company policy . In other places, where an employer has a very good work/life balance policy allowing people to ask for part time work, for example, people will not ask for it if their own manager is unsympathetic." What's more, the work/life balance point changes as individuals progress through their working...
How emoji are changing the shape of everyday English
Languages

How emoji are changing the shape of everyday English

...out into the world in a variety of both abstract and concrete ways. For example, there was Durex announcing the introduction of an eggplant-flavoured condom to their range as part of a spoof publicity stunt in reaction to the Unicode Consortium (the organisation who oversee all thing emoji) turning down their proposal for a condom emoji. And then there’s the company...
The Peace Dividend: why Good Friday Agreement matters to us and Earth
Society, Politics & Law

The Peace Dividend: why Good Friday Agreement matters to us and Earth

...positive, but by no means perfect. Our transition to lasting and sustainable peace will not go further without an economy which refuses to neglect and abandon communities in the name of growth. If this is what we desire, then it must be what we must demand. Find out more To discover why the Good Friday Agreement matters in a wider context, why not try the courses below?...
The Good Friday Agreement and the future of the union
Society, Politics & Law

The Good Friday Agreement and the future of the union

...out the legitimacy of seeking constitutional change and the pathway for doing so, but the “Principle of Consent” so key to Unionism and democracy, was now accepted by all. This was the fundamental victory of the Agreement in 1998, it removed any and all supposed justification of violence for political ends. However, the agreement went further, A new system of...