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Stay together: Can LBGTQ+ and older couples show the way to a lasting love?
Society, Politics & Law

Stay together: Can LBGTQ+ and older couples show the way to a lasting love?

...children come along and the survey found parenthood shapes relationship quality more than any other factor. Among survey respondents, who came from all ages and backgrounds, we found it was more difficult for parents to carry out relationship “maintenance” than it was for child-free couples. But again, LGBTQ+ parents scored higher on this than heterosexual couples....
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How can languages further your career?
Languages

How can languages further your career?

...School (comprising a survey of 415 UK Small Medium Enterprises) statistically shows that language capabilities add 30% in value to exporting success. Inspired? Try a FREE language course The Open Centre for Languages and Cultures For many more short courses that will help you get started with learning languages, check out the Open Centre for Languages and Cultures....
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Six ways Sajid Javid can make British migration policy more humane
Society, Politics & Law

Six ways Sajid Javid can make British migration policy more humane

...centre. Since then, increasing categories of people have been subject to administrative detention, including irregular migrants, asylum seekers (the largest group currently in detention), stateless persons, children and people who arrived in the UK as children and it even played a role in the Windrush scandal. It’s now time for arbitrary immigration detention to stop,...
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Introducing healthcare improvement
Health, Sports & Psychology

Introducing healthcare improvement

...researchers, payers, planners and educators – to make the changes that will lead to better patient outcomes (health), better system performance (care) and better professional development (learning…) (Batalden & Davidoff, 2007, p.2) Activity 1 This definition of quality improvement identifies three areas that may result in positive change after an improvement...
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Co-creating and mushing up identity with visitors to the New Union Flag project
Society, Politics & Law

Co-creating and mushing up identity with visitors to the New Union Flag project

...children...[Children interacting with New Union Flag project] Artist Gil Mualem-Doron, and Dr Giota Alevizou, from The Open University – the lead author of this unit – run The DIY Diversity Flag. The aim of the workshop was for primary school pupils to map out diversity that exists in their daily life, culture and community. This mapping was explored and represented...
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Can you train for penalty shoot-outs?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Can you train for penalty shoot-outs?

...research for my book ‘Twelve Yards: The Art and Psychology of the Perfect Penalty’, I spoke to coaches and athletes from many different sports, including golf, tennis, rugby, handball, gridiron and water-polo. All practice assiduously for any eventuality, and the most important word they used to describe their practise was ‘purposeful’. I was reminded of this word...
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Why is East Africa experiencing such a terrible drought?
Nature & Environment

Why is East Africa experiencing such a terrible drought?

...centre in Mogadishu, Somalia, on March 9, 2017.] Young girls line up at a feeding centre in Mogadishu, Somalia, on March 9, 2017. A severe drought threatens millions of people in East Africa. Crop harvests are well below normal and the price of food has doubled across much of Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia and nearby countries. [The Conversation] The last major drought in the...
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Different cultures, different childhoods
History & The Arts

Different cultures, different childhoods

...Children in tent - Corbis] When I look back on my own childhood in the 1970s and 80s and compare it with children today, it reminds me of that famous sentence ‘The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there’ (from L. P. Hartley’s novel The Go-Between). Even in a relatively short period of time, I can see the enormous transformations that have taken...
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