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How arguments are constructed and used in the Social Sciences
Society, Politics & Law

How arguments are constructed and used in the Social Sciences

...Accounts have been unable to be finally and completely audited and approved because they are in such disarray and the rot goes deeper still. Most decent people, regardless of their politics, want to help those in need, especially those fallen on hard times through no fault of their own, the widowed, the orphaned, the disabled. The objection to the Social Security System...
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Level 2: Intermediate 1 hr
Who counts as a refugee?
Society, Politics & Law

Who counts as a refugee?

...accounts in the social policy context of two particular historical moments – the decade following 1933 and the period between 1991 and 2003. During this latter period ‘asylum’ was constructed by successive UK governments as a ‘political crisis’ in the context of a ‘crisis’ of the UK welfare state, a drive towards a common European asylum policy (Bloch and...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Understanding your sector Badge icon
Money & Business

Understanding your sector

...account the range of factors that you have been considering in this section. Try to identify at least one factor within each of the four PEST dimensions and, if possible, to consider the two time frames displayed. A good place to start is to review the sources of information listed in Section 3 or to ask people that you work with for their ideas. Table 4 Conducting a PEST...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Thomas Stocker - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Thomas Stocker - Stories of Change

...account to assess climate. After all the traditional definition of 30 years is not a very bad time period. But even on multi decadal timescales the science has revealed that there is also variability, perhaps less in the global mean temperature than in the regional temperatures certainly. RH: Would you think that looking back ten years ago that there was a certain degree...
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Stonehenge before the First World War
History & The Arts

Stonehenge before the First World War

...account any large object appearing on it, such as a horse or tree or a big animal, looks very much bigger than it would on land with a broken surface. Oddly enough, my impossible Stonehenge was derived from a sober description and an accompanying plate in a sober work—a gigantic folio in two volumes entitled "A New System of Geography", dated some time in the eighteenth...
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Article 10 mins
The impact of supporting Ukrainians with free resources on OpenLearn
Education & Development

The impact of supporting Ukrainians with free resources on OpenLearn

...account with The Open University, the set-up for which is a universal function for the university’s websites and is only available in the English language. Table 4 shows platform metrics for the five courses and article translated into Ukrainian from the point of being published (October 2022) to November 2023. Table 4 Site metrics for content that was translated into...
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Article 10 mins
Engendering citizenship
Society, Politics & Law

Engendering citizenship

...account of equal rights for all citizens. Helen Meekosha. Helen One of the most exciting things for disabled people has been the growing rise of the disability movement both in the UK, the US, Australia and indeed across the world. And many of the new – not new rights, but many of the breaking down the barriers, have been occasioned by people taking to the streets, by...
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Level 2: Intermediate 1 hr
Recovery strategies in sport and exercise
Health, Sports & Psychology

Recovery strategies in sport and exercise

...accounted for. In the next activity we will look at some of these challenges and some of the limitations of research examining recovery. Activity 4 The challenges of investigating recovery Timing: Allow 25 minutes Imagine you have developed a new recovery strategy that you would like to test (e.g. a piece of equipment that you believe speeds up recovery between sessions)....
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs