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UK must balance food farming impacts
Nature & Environment

UK must balance food farming impacts

...management improvements that could raise yields by an average of 1.3% per year until 2050. Food consumption in the UK is likely to rise by 38% by 2050, but the researchers believe the target can be met without increasing food imports. Food imports However, a study in the Royal Society’s Interface journal shows that the UK has become increasingly dependent on food...
Is blocking migrant benefits missing the point?
Society, Politics & Law

Is blocking migrant benefits missing the point?

...managed to break is well on the way to being destroyed by the refugee crisis. The Schengen agreement of open borders has more or less vanished, at least for now. The Dublin regulation, aimed at supporting asylum seekers, is hardly being upheld. The burden-sharing schemes that were agreed last year to distribute refugees more evenly over Europe are failing to come to...
Do Something Great
Nature & Environment

Do Something Great

...managing coastal environments to understand the changing nature of the coast. Help someone get online Why not devote an hour or so of your time to helping someone less internet savvy than you delve into the digital world? To help them, check out the articles and free courses below to enhance their knowledge. Do your bit for the environment Take small steps to reduce your...
How are drones keeping track of songbirds?
Nature & Environment

How are drones keeping track of songbirds?

...management, but it is inherently challenging. Some types of terrain are difficult to access, and human observers introduce the element of human bias. The use of audio recordings made by UAVs has the potential to combat both of these challenges, as hard-to-reach sites can be flown over and multiple people can analyze the resulting recordings. Andrew Wilson of Gettysburg...
Dominic Ball testimonial
Education & Development

Dominic Ball testimonial

...Management Degree with The Open University. He explains why it’s important other current players start planning for the future, plus how the support of the Professional Footballers' Association (PFA) helped...Dominic recalls his upbringing and how his parents influenced him: "Mum and dad trained as teachers, so I was always pushed in school. Even when football...
Culture and the manufacturing industry, 1983
OpenLearn Ireland

Culture and the manufacturing industry, 1983

...managers and providing industrial premises, was involved in all four types of industrial development in the area. Transcript: The problems of industrialisation in Southwest Donegal in 1983 [Cèilidh music] PAT JESS Although Southwest Donegal is economically disadvantaged by its relative remoteness, it’s culturally rich. With other residual pockets of Gaelic culture in...
Virtual murder: Just a game?
History & The Arts

Virtual murder: Just a game?

...manager, even if we might relieve our stress by day-dreaming about doing so. Loving couples enact sexual fantasies which, were they real, would not be the kinds of things done by loving couples. One would have to be rather puritanical to think that moral judgement applied equally on both sides of the boundary. If this line of thought is right, then it seems that video...
Peter Tuddenham On Using Systems Thinking In Practice
Society, Politics & Law

Peter Tuddenham On Using Systems Thinking In Practice

...Management and Corporate Public Affairs with the Adolph Coors Company and then Arizona Public Service. Moving east to Washington DC as a Senior Systems Scientist with Allen Corp, later called CAE Link, he consulted to senior leaders on systemic change and teaching and learning transformation supported by new technologies; clients included the US Department of Defense and...