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Saint Patrick and modern narratives of Irish identity
OpenLearn Ireland

Saint Patrick and modern narratives of Irish identity

...economic strife to head to Australia, North America and the UK over the last 200 years. However, there is a shift in social views regarding this new inward migration trend including a focus on refugees, asylum seekers and those from Ukraine. This period in time is not aligned with a wealthy prosperous Ireland like the Celtic Tiger years were, where there was plenty to go...
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Betty Luckham: celebrating the activism of a pioneering Windrush woman
History & The Arts

Betty Luckham: celebrating the activism of a pioneering Windrush woman

...Economics where Betty gained a Diploma in Social Sciences. Betty and Bryan settled in Manchester in 1961. Bryan worked in Adult Education and Betty began her lifelong connection with the African Caribbean community in her new role as a community development worker employed by the Commission in the UK for the West Indian Federation. The aim of the post was to support newly...
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Rights and justice in international relations
Society, Politics & Law

Rights and justice in international relations

...Economic, Social and Cultural Rights recognises that ‘it is governments that have the overarching duty to ensure a division of labour in the matter of positive duties, and one that is appropriate to their own societies and sufficient to ensure that the rights are effectively secured’ (Beetham, 1999, p. 128). In the modern world, rights claims are most often made...
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Level 3: Advanced 13 hrs
First steps in innovation and entrepreneurship
Money & Business

First steps in innovation and entrepreneurship

...economic, social and environmental impact...First steps in innovation and entrepreneurship: 3.1 Different types of entrepreneurship - In the following activity, you will listen to some real-life entrepreneurs and consider the types of entrepreneurship they represent. Activity 7 Timing: Allow about 1 hour 30 minutes for this activity To begin this activity, try to list as...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Building over farmland: Will city expansion leave the world hungry?
Nature & Environment

Building over farmland: Will city expansion leave the world hungry?

...economic activity, large-scale changes are expected. However, the authors say this is the first study to quantify the effect of urbanisation on crop lands at global, continental, and country levels. The study was carried out by researchers from Austria, Germany, Sweden, New Zealand, and United States. The croplands that are going to disappear by 2030 have productivity...
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Using data visualisation to track climate change
Nature & Environment

Using data visualisation to track climate change

...Economic Cooperation and Development, according to a statement from DIE last month (16 January). Visit the Nationally Determined Contributions Explorer The experts created a database from the (I)NDCs or intended nationally determined contributions and opened it with an interactive online tool. Pieter Pauw, an environmental scientist at the DIE who led the research team to...
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Educational leadership at local and community level: Supporting ‘Quality Education’ even in times of adversity
Education & Development

Educational leadership at local and community level: Supporting ‘Quality Education’ even in times of adversity

...Economic Affairs estimates that school closures have kept 90% of all students out of school globally, reversing years of progress in education. Governments around the world have had to ensure continuity of learning through alternative means. This has mostly been technology-based remote learning approaches, even though that risks exacerbating the challenges associated with...
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Statistics: What is it or what are they?
Science, Maths & Technology

Statistics: What is it or what are they?

...concerned with many other areas besides opinion polls. Statistics is used wherever there is quantitative information to be dealt with. Medicine and biomedical science, economics, government, education, psychology, finance, environment, and forensic science are just some of the many areas of twenty-first century life in which statistics and statisticians play a key role....
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