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War, Intervention and Development
Nature & Environment

War, Intervention and Development

...education, poverty and unemployment are still rife and it's this lack of development that gives rise to conflict. Views from all sides are presented, including those of women, disaffected youth, members of the RUF and the new peace-keeping forces, to provide an in-depth analysis of the complexities of the aftermath of a civil war. In the academic perspective, Helen...
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Stories from Vienna: 6 key figures
Languages

Stories from Vienna: 6 key figures

...education. He was picked out during the Nazi regime as one of the “socially undesirable children” and entered into the Nazi euthanasia programme. He was confined to a psychiatric institution in Vienna where Nazi doctors conducted cruel experiments with the children. He managed to survive the atrocities but the horror did not end there for him. When he later recognised...
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Do enforced language tests help migrants integrate more smoothly?
Languages

Do enforced language tests help migrants integrate more smoothly?

...education with life skills, as the independent Senator Jacqui Lambie has argued in the Australian parliament. The millions of migrants and refugees who built post-war Australia learnt their English through immersion in communities and workplaces that afforded opportunities for participation and inclusion; as they used to say out at the Ford motor car factory in...
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Birth of the Welfare State
History & The Arts

Birth of the Welfare State

...education, health and a standard of living of which they could be proud. The 1944 Education Act was already on the statute book when the Labour government came to power. By raising the school-leaving age to 15 and later to 16, it was going to give children chances that their parents had never had - to carry their education on (if they passed the examination) into grammar...
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“We don’t just change nappies – we change lives”: Reflections on the Scottish Nursery Nurses Strike, 2004
Society, Politics & Law

“We don’t just change nappies – we change lives”: Reflections on the Scottish Nursery Nurses Strike, 2004

...education was transformed in public consciousness and in reality. This short piece, based partly on research conducted during the strike in 2004 (see Mooney and McCafferty, 2005 and 2007), is my attempt to address this to an extent, and to ensure Scotland’s nursery nurses are given their rightful place in our awareness and understanding of women’s workplace struggles...
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The Open University's Carbon Calculator
Nature & Environment

The Open University's Carbon Calculator

...education. Different calculators therefore give different results depending on their assumptions, data sources and what they include. This calculator attempts to be comprehensive by including the effects of income, goods and services consumption and infrastructure emissions as well as the usual energy, food and transport footprints. For this article we are using the...
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A timeline between The OU and the royal family
History & The Arts

A timeline between The OU and the royal family

...Education Conference [Princess Anne when she opened the ICDE in Birmingham, The Open University's VC, John Daniel, is pictured in the foreground.] ©The Open University The Open University takes a turn to host the 17th biennial ICDE conference. Held in Birmingham, Anne, Princess Royal attends as a guest of honour to open proceedings. Click here to read more on the ICDE...
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Asa Briggs and new maps of learning
History & The Arts

Asa Briggs and new maps of learning

...Education enjoyed a huge expansion during the 1960s with new universities and polytechnics being opened and many older universities expanding their numbers. One man, Asa Briggs, played significant roles at the first of the new universities of the decade, the University of Sussex located just outside Brighton, which opened in 1961, and the last university to open in that...
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