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Diagramming for development 2: exploring interrelationships
Digital & Computing

Diagramming for development 2: exploring interrelationships

...law have also helped formulate the South African national water strategy. Since the democratic elections of 1994, the nation has crafted a suite of water policies and laws to redress past inefficiencies, inequities and environmental degradation. For example, a 1998 law makes all water public property, repealing the previous statute that assigned water rights based on...
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Level 3: Advanced 4 hrs
Section 4: Enduring Controversies around Glasgow 1919: (Mis)representing Red Clydeside?
Society, Politics & Law

Section 4: Enduring Controversies around Glasgow 1919: (Mis)representing Red Clydeside?

...Scots. These ‘myths’ (or untruths) have been tackled recently in a series of articles (links below). Gordon Barclay, Military Historian Barclay’s arguments are outlined more fully in: Gordon Barclay, ‘”Churchill rolled the tanks into the crowd": mythology and reality in the military deployment to Glasgow 1919‘, Scottish Affairs, 28, 1: 32-62 Gordon Barclay,...
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Article 20 mins
From Brexit to the break-up of Britain?
Society, Politics & Law

From Brexit to the break-up of Britain?

...law/geography/doreen-massey-space-place-and-politics Milton Keynes Council (2014) Milton Keynes Theme Report – 2011 Census Population and Migration. Milton Keynes, UK: Research and Intelligence, Milton Keynes Council, April 2014. Williams, M. (2016) Fast Growth Cities: The Opportunities and Challenges ahead, London: Centre for Cities.
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Panic attacks: what they are and what to do about them
Health, Sports & Psychology

Panic attacks: what they are and what to do about them

...Law. Activity 7 Identifying interpretations Timing: Allow approximately 15 minutes In this extract Stanley describes his first panic attack, which occurred after a prolonged period of hard work and frightening experiences in the Blitz during the Second World War. He had recently married and was taking a much needed holiday in Wales. As you read, think about how Stanley...
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Level 2: Intermediate 3 hrs
Integrated safety, health and environmental management: An introduction
Digital & Computing

Integrated safety, health and environmental management: An introduction

...law. The legal case R. v. Board of Trustees of the Science Museum (Court of Appeal, Criminal Division, Times Law Report, 9 March 1993) was an appeal against a conviction in 1990 under Section 3(1) of the Health and Safety at Work, etc. Act 1974. The prosecution case was that the defendants had failed to maintain their air conditioning system to a sufficient standard and...
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Level 3: Advanced 15 hrs
Researching Antarctic ice sheets
Nature & Environment

Researching Antarctic ice sheets

...laws governing how ice sliding depends on the bed (such as how slippery it is), different maps of the bedrock topography, and different dates of the triggering of instability by warm ocean water or ice shelf collapse. This approach of using a whole ‘ensemble’ of simulations is very common in climate science and other areas of science that use computer models. The...
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Video 10 mins
Chelsea Manning: An OpenLearn reading list
Society, Politics & Law

Chelsea Manning: An OpenLearn reading list

...laws and reprisals will not prevent this information from leaking out. As a result, Washington faces what can be described as an accelerating hypocrisy collapse -- a dramatic narrowing of the country's room to maneuver between its stated aspirations and its sometimes sordid pursuit of self-interest. The U.S. government, its friends, and its foes can no longer plausibly...
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Article 5 mins
The People on the Notes: Elizabeth Fry
History & The Arts

The People on the Notes: Elizabeth Fry

...law, penal reformer Thomas Fowell Buxton, which was published in 1818 and subsequently used by other campaigners and later hagiographers. Buxton describes the terrible scenes of poverty and debauchery that Elizabeth encountered; women, scantily dressed, begging at the gratings, playing at cards, swearing, drunk and violent. Overcome with sadness, Elizabeth pulled out her...
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Article 15 mins