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Transitioning from home education to employment
Education & Development

Transitioning from home education to employment

...systems What has also strongly come to light is how the employment route selected by previously home-educated adults is strongly influenced not only by their prior experiences and interests during home education but also by the internal value systems that they felt they had developed by being outside of the conventional system. This meant that there had been a pattern...
Future of Empowerment
Society, Politics & Law

Future of Empowerment

...system. One where work will feature much less prominently. By contrast technology could be deployed to create more connected communities where individuals can develop themselves free from the pressures of career and job. According to author, Paul Mason, this new order will be marked by “Collaborative production, using network technology to produce goods and services...
Revealing the surface of an asteroid using robotic telescopes
Science, Maths & Technology

Revealing the surface of an asteroid using robotic telescopes

...system? Samuel Jackson, PhD student in The School of Physical Sciences digs into the research...At the Open University we are looking at asteroids with the OpenScience Observatories to study their rotation and surface. To understand the conditions present in the early solar system, we must study the remnants of its formation. By studying the dynamical and physical...
EPQs: finding and using evidence
Education & Development

EPQs: finding and using evidence

...think is important. It is equivalent to an A-level qualification. These articles are designed to help you if you are enrolled on an EPQ. See previous article in series: Designing your research question Before working through this article, you should have settled on your research question. This article will support you through the next steps in the research cycle (Figure...
Sex workers’ labour struggles in Scotland
Society, Politics & Law

Sex workers’ labour struggles in Scotland

...think of their job, that it is work like any other form of selling labour, and that they therefore deserve the same rights as any other worker. However, not surprisingly there are a range of competing and conflicting views on all aspects of sex work and on the rights of sex workers, and that some believe that the right to buy sex is wrong and understand justice as...
The importance of education for students in secure environments
Education & Development

The importance of education for students in secure environments

...system, it is an overly complex and uneven situation. Some secure environments provide The Virtual Campus (VC), a secure platform used in prisons in England and Wales for resettlement and education purposes. This enables students to access online learning materials via a secure Moodle platform. Access to Virtual Campus can be limited and is dependent upon the individual...
Is my child being exploited? How to spot the signs
Health, Sports & Psychology

Is my child being exploited? How to spot the signs

...think or can bear to think our children or the children we know can be involved. Increasingly we are becoming aware of the exploitation of children across the nations and regions of the UK although the targeting of our children and young people may take different forms depending on where you live. If you were to ask children and young people, they would describe child...
Goal-setting for a better world: Millennium Development Goals and Post-2015 Development Agenda
Society, Politics & Law

Goal-setting for a better world: Millennium Development Goals and Post-2015 Development Agenda

...Thinking beyond sectors for sustainable Development) contributes to this effort critiquing what progress has been made so far on the MDGs and introducing current debates to help set the post 2015 agenda. Some of the points raised are: on the limitations of focus of previous goals e.g. deciding whether it is climate change adaptation and or mitigation required; presence of...