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Reflections on the Northern Ireland Economy 25 years after the Good Friday Agreement
Society, Politics & Law

Reflections on the Northern Ireland Economy 25 years after the Good Friday Agreement

...out underdevelopment traps. Revitalising the NI Economy? In the last decade or so there have been a number of economic and industrial strategies aimed at contributing to revitalising the economy. There has been a focus on what are called the MATRIX priority sectors: Agrifood Technology; Sustainable Energy; Information & Communications Technologies (ICT); Life & Health...
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The origins of Welsh male voice choirs
History & The Arts

The origins of Welsh male voice choirs

...out more about The Open University’s music courses_.  _ [Festival of Massed Choirs at the Royal Albert Hall in 2018.]Festival of Massed Choirs at the Royal Albert Hall in 2018. Image courtesy of the Welsh Association Of Male Choirs. ‘There are many things you can say about a Welshman,’ wrote the critic Milton Shulman reviewing the film Valley of Song in 1953,...
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Detecting fake images
Society, Politics & Law

Detecting fake images

...out the Open University’s Digital Photography module. References Kleinman, Z. (2018) Cambridge Analytica: The story so far. BBC News UK [online]. Available at: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-43465968 (accessed on 9/12/2019) Lee, D. (2018) Deepfakes porn has serious consequences. BBC News UK [online]. Available at: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-42912529...
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Advance Care Planning (ACP ) - Discuss, Decide, Document and Share
Health, Sports & Psychology

Advance Care Planning (ACP ) - Discuss, Decide, Document and Share

...2019 Carers UK. (2019b). State of Caring Report: a snapshot of unpaid care in the UK Retrieved 18 December 2019 (2016) Carers UK. Missing out: The identification challenge Retrieved 7 July 2020 Willen Hospice - Advance Care Plan (a download PDF link to the document discussed in the film is included on this page, or alternatively directly download it by clicking here.)...
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Should we educate prisoners?
Society, Politics & Law

Should we educate prisoners?

...Out of 101,600 learners, under the previous OLASS (Offenders’ Learning and Skills Service) contracts for prison education, only 100 prisoners participated in a full Level 3 course (equivalent to ‘A’ level) in 2014/15, with none participating at Level 4 which is equivalent to first-year undergraduate or above (MoJ, Unlocking Potential, 2016). Recognition of the...
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Climate change – How awareness is prevented through media sanitation
Nature & Environment

Climate change – How awareness is prevented through media sanitation

...adaptations needed to prevent a global catastrophe from unfolding. It is for all of us awake enough to spread the message and help others to see the truth. If you want to know more about Orangutans being decimated by palm oil production check out the Orangutan Foundation Note: This article is an adapted version for OpenLearn. The original article can be found here...
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Supporting sustainable and responsible space exploration
Science, Maths & Technology

Supporting sustainable and responsible space exploration

...out and the quality of data that they can collect. This is a huge responsibility; we must keep target planets in a condition that will allow future generations to pursue their scientific goals unhindered by mistakes we might make. Does curiosity justify the potentially permanent contamination of other biospheres? Importantly, this issue involves all of us, not just people...
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How gender equality can help fix the construction industry
Society, Politics & Law

How gender equality can help fix the construction industry

...out. The government’s Working Futures report into the future of the country’s labour market predicts hundreds of thousands of vacancies in skilled technical, professional and managerial roles by the early 2020s. One obvious solution is to increase the number of women in the construction industry. [Construction workers] Construction engineers at Dartford Crossing,...
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