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What this hub is about
Education & Development

What this hub is about

...community and the OU's BME network. The hub launched in November 2020 but we won't stop there. We will continually be adding content and already have some exciting projects in the pipeline! Who is it for? [This is a map of the world containing diverse people] The short answer: everyone. The long answer: Utilising the experience of staff within this institution, the hub...
True stories of the 1975 EEC Referendum
Society, Politics & Law

True stories of the 1975 EEC Referendum

...Community in 1973. Labour's NEC wanted the nation out - but not all the cabinet were convinced. It was Tony Benn who persuaded Wilson that the correct way to act would be to seek the will of the people: "I felt that a decision of such constitutional importance could not be contemplated without the explicit consent of the electorate in a general election or referendum....
Fake news, filter bubbles and Facebook
Science, Maths & Technology

Fake news, filter bubbles and Facebook

...communicate. Of equal importance to the influence of the algorithm is what people do with the site, and how they themselves fashion their experience of it. An overwhelming attitude from people surveyed in the research was that Facebook is not ideally suited to political debate, and that things should be kept trivial and light-hearted. This isn’t to say that the...
Using digital tools to save languages
Languages

Using digital tools to save languages

...community...It was during the winter of 2014. I was at home, researching the storytelling patterns of my community. I spent days trying to persuade my grandma to tell me some of the stories from her time. But she’s always been moody, and she wouldn’t comply. Then one morning, out of the blue, she started telling me stories. After the first one, I had this gut feeling...
Stephen Hawking: The tributes
Science, Maths & Technology

Stephen Hawking: The tributes

...communicate science to the masses and make it accessible. See the box below: Hawking was born on January 8, 1942, in Oxford, England. In 1963 he was diagnosed with ALS, a form of Motor Neurone Disease, and later confined to a wheelchair and forced to communicate via a computerised voice. But he continued his theoretical work and was outspoken on many things over much of...
Diary of a new Life Peer
Society, Politics & Law

Diary of a new Life Peer

...communities and our nation. Take us through a timeline of your journey to the House of Lords. 31 October 2023 Following the announcement by Lord Wigley, Plaid Cymru’s only member of the House of Lords, that he wished to retire, the Chief Executive of Plaid Cymru emailed all members of the National Register of Candidates to officially open nominations for the party’s...
What makes it hard for migrants to learn the language of their new home?
Languages

What makes it hard for migrants to learn the language of their new home?

...oral fluency and then another six years or so are needed to learn how to read and write, to acquire the academic and textual conventions of a language and also to extend grammatical structures, expand vocabulary and refine pragmatic conventions. First language acquisition may take more time than you thought but its outcomes are relatively uniform (under the condition that...
‘Rule Britannia, Britannia Rules the Waves’: From fishing patriotism to pragmatism
Nature & Environment

‘Rule Britannia, Britannia Rules the Waves’: From fishing patriotism to pragmatism

...communication from the European Commission on state of play of the Common Fisheries Policy showed that 44 stocks (61% of the total North East Atlantic catches of interest to the UK fleet) are at a level which can produce the maximum sustainable yield (MSY), the stated policy objective for all EU stocks by 2020. In the same sea area the average biomass of fish was 35%...