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Is your social media use impacting your future?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Is your social media use impacting your future?

...systems and ‘reviews’ can tell us how a service is performing from the user perspective or, alternatively, it can give us professional information about health and social care workers through organisational online profiles. However, if too much of our personal information is made to be public this could provide a negative view of the person; e.g. evidence of profane...
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Can the Economy be Irish?
Money & Business

Can the Economy be Irish?

...system, with filming and production activities across various European locales, including Northern Ireland. Underpinning this regionally distributed system is a set of Global Value Chains (GVCs): the basis of trade in modern economies. These include associated activities such as culture, leisure and tourism as well as related business and financial services. It follows...
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Homage to Celtalonia
Society, Politics & Law

Homage to Celtalonia

...system; A Federal Central Bank with direct membership of three national central backs, akin to the Fed system in the US with membership of Euroepan Central bank (ECB); A system of fiscal federalism to distribute tax revenues between the nations and constituent regions appropriately (akin to Finanzausgleichgesetz in Germany); A Federal Constitutional Court to settle...
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Galaxies, stars and planets
Science, Maths & Technology

Galaxies, stars and planets

...System; the Sun and other stars; galaxies and the composition of astronomical objects...This free course, Galaxies, stars and planets, is a general introduction, including scale of the universe from the very large to the very small; orbits and gravity; the Solar System; the Sun and other stars; galaxies and the composition of astronomical objects....Galaxies, stars and...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Free School Meals: An OpenLearn reading list
Education & Development

Free School Meals: An OpenLearn reading list

...system change could help make things better: We know that many children who are entitled to free school meals do not eat them every day, often because of teasing, bullying and fear of stigma. This is a major concern for many parents: ‘My older children have had free meals in the past and have been bullied as a result.’ Parent How much parents worry about teasing and...
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Richard Tol - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Richard Tol - Stories of Change

...think 25-30 years ago. RH: Where did you study? RT: Free University in Amsterdam. RH: And what intrigued you about it at that time that made you want to pursue it? RT: I started more from an environmental angle than from an energy angle. RH: You were an environmentalist at that time? Or maybe you still consider yourself an environmentalist, I don't know. RT:...
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Alastair Fothergill - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Alastair Fothergill - Earth in Vision

...think in the early days the Fragile Planet series, Fragile Earth series on Channel 4, there was an amazing film called Korup about the rain forest, when the very first time we were up in the canopy and that was extraordinary, but probably the series that most influenced me was Kingdom of the Ice Bear, a series done in the eighties about the natural history of the artic...
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Video 15 mins
Witnesses and Evidence
Society, Politics & Law

Witnesses and Evidence

...system? Should we really burden members of the public with the responsibility of resolving our criminal and civil disputes - or would we be better having a panel of experts? And what about expert witnesses? After so many recent miscarriages of justice, how much weight should be given to the testimony of such witnesses? Gary Slapper, Professor of Law at The Open...
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