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How OpenLearn uses third-party content

...communities, or professional writers working the context of a learning brief. They are usually, although not exclusively, working within the Creative Commons community. These trusted repositories include blogs from the LSE and Oxford, SciDevNet, Wellcome Trust's Mosaic website, Languages On The Move, GlobalVoice and The Conversation. The OpenLearn editorial team will...
What is Diwali?
History & The Arts

What is Diwali?

...communities take different central days for the focus of their festivities. [Rama and Sita, with Lakshmana returning to Ayodhya, image: Unknown1600/1700 ]Rama and Sita, with Lakshmana returning to Ayodhya, artist unknown, 17th-18th century, National Museum, New Delhi, Accession Number: 51.65/74 Perhaps the most dominant story associated with Diwali is a celebration of...
Will Brexit spell the end of fishing quotas?
Nature & Environment

Will Brexit spell the end of fishing quotas?

...communities. Several reforms could improve this situation: Fishing quotas should be publicly owned. As fish stocks are public resources, quotas should be owned by the government but granted to individuals as time-limited use rights. Fishing quotas should be reallocated. As the small-scale sector is disadvantaged, reallocation is needed for fairness and to protect...
Six ways Sajid Javid can make British migration policy more humane
Society, Politics & Law

Six ways Sajid Javid can make British migration policy more humane

...communities. Making sudden changes to what access they have to services within those communities would not be about migration control. It would be about displacement. 2. Human rights must be for everyone In the UK today, many human rights have become dependent upon documentation and status and this has mostly become socially acceptable. In the latest review of the UK by...
History offers Britain an important lesson on shutting down immigration
Society, Politics & Law

History offers Britain an important lesson on shutting down immigration

...communities were not offered enough by way of assistance to integrate the new arrivals. The anti-immigrant feeling spread, as did racism towards ethnic minorities in the UK. In 1967, the National Front was created specifically in opposition to non-white immigration into the UK. Then, in February 1968 the Commonwealth Immigrants Act introduced the rule that entry would be...
Strategies to reduce the prison population
Society, Politics & Law

Strategies to reduce the prison population

...communities There should be an immediate moratorium on building more prisons. A clear message should be sent to the judiciary that for relatively harmless offences, or where an offender is considered vulnerable, a prison sentence should, if at all possible, be avoided. There are some ideas proposed by the government regarding children, mental health, drug-taking and the...
A brief history of Science
History & The Arts

A brief history of Science

...communication and of science and its technological applications, set in the context of Earth history as a whole. The years before present (BP) shown in this table are, of course, approximate, in that they merely imply 'about that long ago'. As far as the older times are concerned, clearly no scientist could prove that the Earth was formed exactly 4 600 000 000 years ago,...
Trump - an appeal for enlightenment
Society, Politics & Law

Trump - an appeal for enlightenment

...communities, campaigning within US elections is often determined by simple issues such as ‘tax cuts’. These benefit the rich substantially more and do not significantly alter the landscape of hardship and insecurity many US citizens are experiencing. The US has a history of presidential candidates who emerge from the rich elite sections of society and understandably,...