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Why is Mongolia a good place to die?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Why is Mongolia a good place to die?

...family ger, their dome-tented dwelling. A few lambs – almost fully grown, too late to be sold – huddle together in a wooden pen nearby, the remnants of a once 100-strong flock. As his aunt and two doctors come into the yard, 18-year-old Dorj Tumurbat stands by the gate, foot up on a kennel. The dog jumps for the visitors, held back by its chain. But Dorj stays put,...
An introduction to Open Educational Resources (OER)
Education & Development

An introduction to Open Educational Resources (OER)

...History of English , for example, was loaded onto YouTube by The Open University in 2011. The History of English in 10 Minutes Chapter Two, the Norman Conquest, or Excuse My English. 1066. True to his name, William the Conqueror invades England, bringing new concepts from across the Channel, like the French language, the Doomsday Book, and the duty-free Gauloises...
What is COVID-19?
Science, Maths & Technology

What is COVID-19?

...family and friends, we visited neighbours, we travelled where and when we wanted, and we shopped among the crowds, without hand sanitizer and protective gloves on. Just a few months later, life has changed beyond recognition. The first cases of the virus we now call COVID-19 were detected in China’s Hubei Province at the end of December 2019. Now, for most of us, the...
Do independent enterprises really matter?
Money & Business

Do independent enterprises really matter?

...family firms, cooperatives and social enterprises in particular. Here there is are real risk that values will be dissipated after a sell-off – but small firms can also be overly conservative, hosting values and practices that are best consigned to history. Independents are often sources of real originality and difference, which rarely survive the transition to corporate...
Methods in Motion: Research Modes, Moves, Methods
Society, Politics & Law

Methods in Motion: Research Modes, Moves, Methods

...families, and the cultures of everyday life in Britain, exploring changes in my own life and the environment I was living in, curious to learn from others about their lives and choices. The social divisions of class, gender, ethnicity, and nationality, and the challenges of changing them when culture creates and reproduces inequalities and hierarchies, have occupied most...
Social mobility isn’t just about 18-year-olds: adults need life chances too
Society, Politics & Law

Social mobility isn’t just about 18-year-olds: adults need life chances too

...history of widening participation to students from groups traditionally under-represented in higher education. Disadvantaged youngsters were 70% more likely to enter higher education in 2014 than they were in 2004. The universities which have had most impact in widening participation include Bolton, Edge Hill, Greenwich, London Metropolitan, London South Bank, Sunderland,...
A Clockwork Orange: ultraviolence, Russian spies and fake news
Languages

A Clockwork Orange: ultraviolence, Russian spies and fake news

...history. Someone else who was greatly influenced by the book was David Bowie. In the early 1970s, he’d wanted to make a musical of another famous work of dystopian fiction, 1984, but George Orwell’s widow, Sonia, refused him the rights. Instead, he adapted his ideas into Diamond Dogs and created his own dystopian world: a broken society where “a disaffected youth...
Life on the wall: Vindolanda
History & The Arts

Life on the wall: Vindolanda

...history, and it has had a dramatic impact on our knowledge of Roman army life on the northern frontier. There is only so much information that can be gained from a normal archaeological investigation of even the best preserved of remains, although for Roman Britain there has always been the chance of finding a meaningful inscription – the record of a building’s...