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The impact of supporting Ukrainians with free resources on OpenLearn
Education & Development

The impact of supporting Ukrainians with free resources on OpenLearn

...business interest for the OU (Perryman et al., 2013; Law and Perryman, 2015). Today, OpenLearn’s audience is global, and its video content is also shared on YouTube, collectively reaching over 14 million people a year, rising to 22 million during the first 12 months of the COVID-19 pandemic. The activity, now a business-as-usual function for the OU, has been researched...
Children and violence: an introductory, international and interdisciplinary approach
Society, Politics & Law

Children and violence: an introductory, international and interdisciplinary approach

...money, I bought a Beretta. I spent ten days snatching watches, ‘Pah, pah’ [his onomatopoeic rendition of children stealing watches]. First I bought a Mauser and then I held it against a lady's neck. I swiped her money and a bunch of videocassettes. I spent more than a month with the gun, stealing. Then I sold it and with the money I'd stolen and the money from the gun...
10 billion dollar companies that didn't exist 10 years ago
Money & Business

10 billion dollar companies that didn't exist 10 years ago

...business achievement. Want to know some in-depth answers to life's burning questions? Discover a range of questions at the heart of modern life with our throwback series _The Big Question._ 7: Tumblr [Tumblr homepage] With the likes of Lady Gaga and Barack Obama using it, Tumblr is the star-studded go-to microblog. Founded by David Karp in 2007, and acquired by Yahoo! in...
Culture can be brutal, just ask Milton Keynes
Society, Politics & Law

Culture can be brutal, just ask Milton Keynes

...business after all – but it’s not the whole truth. [Concrete Cows, 2012 Intu shopping centre ] Concrete Cows, 2012 Intu shopping centre The originals, a small herd of three cows and two calves, were created in the late 1970s by the Milton Keynes Development Corporation’s first community artist-in-residence Liz Leyh, with help from some of the town’s first,...
Introducing environmental decision making
Nature & Environment

Introducing environmental decision making

...business, I resent public money being used for what is basically a commercial enterprise and a profit-making enterprise. Narrator As air traffic at Swansea Airport grows, the danger of accidents may also increase. Here a helicopter trying to land has crashed just in front of the control tower. Male Do you know if anybody is hurt? Female airport employee I don’t know,...
Capacity and demand management
Society, Politics & Law

Capacity and demand management

...busy times, and the backlog might be cleared when less demand is coming in. The alternative approach is to adjust capacity in anticipation of a change in demand. We could look at demand forecasts and anticipate when peaks and troughs are going to occur, usually through seasonality of demand. We then make adjustments to capacity to match the general pattern of demand over...
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Systems engineering: Challenging complexity
Science, Maths & Technology

Systems engineering: Challenging complexity

...money to be returned. Frank Field, a former social security minister, tabled a motion in parliament yesterday calling for an independent appeals tribunal to hear cases before the Revenue claws back overpayments. Ministers revealed that 217,000 households asked for overpayments to be written off in 2004/05 and 54,000 have already made write-off requests in the first two...
A journey through two Englands
History & The Arts

A journey through two Englands

...business of his, any more than the most outlying nebula or the coal-sacks of the southern hemisphere: his solar system was the parish; the master's temper and the casualties of lambing-time were his region of storms. He cut his bread and bacon with his pocket-knife, and felt no bitterness except in the matter of pauper laborers and the bad-luck that sent contrarious...