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Free School Meals: An OpenLearn reading list
Education & Development

Free School Meals: An OpenLearn reading list

...families received Working Tax Credits and earned less than £16,040 (the extended entitlement pilot). The National Centre for Social Work picked through the results: Impact on take-up of free school meals Most pupils in the universal pilot areas took up the offer of free school meals. Around nine in 10 primary school pupils were taking at least one school meal per week by...
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Promoting equality through the Arts
History & The Arts

Promoting equality through the Arts

...family, music, and the digital images that they carry in their pockets make them feel ‘at home’: “My family is where my home is and also I think the language and the accent for me means home because it's so distinctive wherever you go.” “When we were first married we lived in five houses in about four years. We had one big rug, very little else, but wherever we...
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The Balakot Earthquake: Ten years on
Science, Maths & Technology

The Balakot Earthquake: Ten years on

...families of the dead and injured were compensated, and grants given for house reconstruction outside the red zone. But far fewer people told us they’d received help to rebuild their livelihoods. Although commercial activity started again days after the devastation, local entrepreneurs described to us how they had initially struggled to recapitalise their businesses. In...
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Introduction to adolescent mental health Badge icon
Health, Sports & Psychology

Introduction to adolescent mental health

...family, and we did talk about it altogether, my husband and my daughter, and we agreed to go to the GP because we knew her. She was very anxious. And the thing of how we’ve got through it really is together as a family. It’s a fine line, isn’t there, between natural parts of sort of growing up. But she was twirling and tapping her foot on things and behaviours that...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Veiling
History & The Arts

Veiling

...family in Pakistan. It has always caught me off guard. No individual, religion, or state has ever dictated that I – as a secular person of mixed heritage – must veil. Nonetheless, when the subject of Muslim women’s clothing arises, the discussion inevitably veers toward the veil. Given the profound differences between styles of dress and conceptions of female...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
English in the world today
Languages

English in the world today

...family. In other words, speaking and reading English is something you just do. You may have the odd argument with people about certain aspects of English usage (‘Is it okay to say My sister and me had an argument about correct grammar?’), or may occasionally consult a dictionary to check the meaning or spelling of an unusual word (‘What does deontic mean?’;...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
The poetry of Sorley MacLean
History & The Arts

The poetry of Sorley MacLean

...tree, I have the power to kiss you, I dwell in your ear. Tell him you do not want to listen – he comes, an otter, he comes swarming like hornets, he cries, a cricket, he grows with the marsh under your house, he whispers in the well, smordis you hear, your black alder will wither, and die at the fence tomorrow. What Bobrowski's poem suggests powerfully is that in our...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Who counts as a refugee?
Society, Politics & Law

Who counts as a refugee?

...families, but since 1933, when Hitler came to power in Germany, they had gradually, but systematically, lost rights and opportunities to work. In 1932, aged 19, Lotte had entered Berlin University to study medicine, but she was expelled in 1934. Wolja had completed his education, including in 1935 his PhD in Mathematics and Physics, but as a Jew he was unable to obtain...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs