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Successful IT systems
Digital & Computing

Successful IT systems

...accounts committee, which investigated the project, he said: ‘This is because much of the software and hardware which has been developed could only be used by the BBC if the project were completed, a course of action which, due to technological difficulties and changes to business needs, would be, I fear, equivalent to throwing good money after bad.’ DMI has cost...
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Level 3: Advanced 9 hrs
Working in the voluntary sector Badge icon
Society, Politics & Law

Working in the voluntary sector

...account. The organisation is committed to helping the type of person who is likely to volunteer, or it regards developing and nurturing its volunteer force as equally important – for example, in a volunteer bureau, a self-help group, a community project, and so on. The organisation has a policy of trying to accommodate all offers of help whenever possible. Some...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Climate change
Nature & Environment

Climate change

...accounts to this day) and/or that none of it ever goes out to space - in which case the planet would simply heat up without limit! In reality, some of the longwave radiation from the surface escapes directly to space (at wavelengths in the 'atmospheric window'). The rest is absorbed and re-emitted (up and down) by greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. Back radiation from...
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Level 2: Intermediate 18 hrs
Learning about sex, a shilling a time: Aristotle's Masterpiece
History & The Arts

Learning about sex, a shilling a time: Aristotle's Masterpiece

...account of the conception of Jesus. Like John Cannon, Place was an eager consumer of sexual knowledge; he used to go to London’s secondhand bookstalls and page through medical works, looking for anatomical pictures that he found exciting, until shooed away by irate booksellers. But the Masterpiece was not just read by teenaged boys. In a copy of the first edition held...
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Article 10 mins
Mashing up the Union Jack
Society, Politics & Law

Mashing up the Union Jack

...account imperial histories and devolving struggles, these range between egalitarianism and dominance, openness and tolerance, nationalism and patriotism, dissensus and collectivism. For Gil, the aim was to recreate a sense of home and community; while the re-appropriation of the Union Jack in its various popular cultural incarnations (from logos to emblematic LP covers...
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Article 10 mins
Syria: who's involved, and what do they want?
Society, Politics & Law

Syria: who's involved, and what do they want?

...accountable. We must do all we can to protect the ban on the use of chemical weapons. Some of this stems from concerns that any missile attacks will lead to a wider conflict in the Middle East, and potentially between Russia and the West more broadly. But the war in Syria has driven rifts between specific allies as well, in particular between certain member states and...
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Article 10 mins
Adaptation and Assimilation: The Irish Catholic Experience in America
OpenLearn Ireland

Adaptation and Assimilation: The Irish Catholic Experience in America

...account of their religion and culture, the Catholic Irish gradually gained acceptance in American society. ...The post-Famine period witnessed a continued influx of mainly Catholic Irish immigrants into the United States due to ongoing social and economic change in Ireland and American economic expansion. By the end of the century, the US census indicated that almost five...
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Article 5 mins
Eco-anxiety and how to cope with the Climate and Ecological Crisis
Health, Sports & Psychology

Eco-anxiety and how to cope with the Climate and Ecological Crisis

...accounts of eco-anxiety from people interviewed for The Guardian newspaper (Sarner, 2022): · ‘My heart was pounding. My chest felt tight every time I thought about it – and I couldn’t not think about it. I’d often burst into tears because it felt overwhelming. It’s like a pit in your stomach – you feel weirdly empty. It’s not always the same, but it...
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Article 5 mins