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Margaret Hamilton: Spaceship Programmer and Software Pioneer
Science, Maths & Technology

Margaret Hamilton: Spaceship Programmer and Software Pioneer

...writing software for the program. Her programming skills led to her promotion to head of the Apollo Software Engineering Division, where she and her colleagues wrote and developed code for the guidance and control systems of the in-flight command and lunar modules of the Apollo missions (McMillan 2015; Spicer 2017). In the process, Hamilton and her team established the...
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Cost-of-living crisis, or just back-to-life blip?
Money & Business

Cost-of-living crisis, or just back-to-life blip?

...write after November’s overshoot. But domestic events may have compounded the rise in UK costs. The pound has depreciated by 10-15% in the five years since the Brexit referendum vote. This puts upward pressure on everything the country imports, including half its gas and 45% of its food. New trade frictions due to Brexit have added to import prices – though some...
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Review: The Digital Academic - Critical Perspectives on Digital Technologies in Higher Education
Education & Development

Review: The Digital Academic - Critical Perspectives on Digital Technologies in Higher Education

...writing. By focusing a critical lens on academic life, this collection contributes to an increasing body of research interested in universities and the realities for the academics who exist within them. If Burton Clark’s 1987 book The Academic Life began the conversation around the effects of changes such as massification and marketisation, then The Digital Academic...
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Signposts for Work
Health, Sports & Psychology

Signposts for Work

...writing CVs and improving interview skills developing career resilience and succeeding at work using technology more confidently reflecting and improving on communication, creativity, interpersonal and teamworking skills learning and/or enhancing entrepreneurial skills finding out more about volunteering and internships considering next steps when being made redundant or...
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“We don’t just change nappies – we change lives”: Reflections on the Scottish Nursery Nurses Strike, 2004
Society, Politics & Law

“We don’t just change nappies – we change lives”: Reflections on the Scottish Nursery Nurses Strike, 2004

...writes about a lively and militant strike by public sector nursery nurses in Scotland...Find out more about The Open University's Social Sciences courses Setting the scene When we think about things like militancy, trade unionism, struggle and fightback, we draw on familiar imagery of braziers at shipyard gates and pitheads. We think of charged mass meetings, packed full...
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The Somme: The German perspective
History & The Arts

The Somme: The German perspective

...Thus, despite the horrific casualties, the German army emerged from the battle of the Somme an even more formidable foe than before the battle. War writing If you'd like to find out more about the Somme and military history, we've a selection of books which can inform you about the subject. Read on in our section further reading. Read more about the First World War...
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Depression, mood and exercise
Health, Sports & Psychology

Depression, mood and exercise

...writing), we will most probably lose it, quickly. Depression or other mental health syndromes do not tend to get better with ageing so the sooner we start helping our body and mind to feel better through regular exercise, the less ageing is going to adversely affect us in terms of mental health and wellbeing. As we all know, physical and mental health are not two...
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The importance of education for students in secure environments
Education & Development

The importance of education for students in secure environments

...writing, GCSEs and A-levels, and Open University Access modules. I learnt about graffiti, poetry, and activism. I started to dream of a life where I could be free to do all those things. My life had been small, and the prison was smaller but in the folds of the textbooks I was reading, I saw the world (Dalton Harrison, Prisoners’ Education Trust alumnus) James Timpson...
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