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Universities, empires and refugees
Society, Politics & Law

Universities, empires and refugees

...Human Rights calls for equal access to higher education based on merit, rather than income or citizenship. Organisations like University of Sanctuary and Council for At-Risk Academics (CARA) seek to promote universities as a place of refuge for displaced and threatened scholars and students, in a world distorted by violence and insecurity. However, as well as having the...
More than carbon sinks: Other ways forests can fight climate change
Nature & Environment

More than carbon sinks: Other ways forests can fight climate change

...human body — they purify the air and exchange carbon for oxygen. “Forest cover is a big contribution to carbon sequestration, and will help increase Asia Pacific’s contribution to tackling climate change,” says the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). Asia-Pacific’s forest cover has increased by 24 million hectares over 20 years, while the world’s...
Public health approaches to infectious disease
Science, Maths & Technology

Public health approaches to infectious disease

...human populations and their impact on human lives the biological, socioeconomic and other circumstances influencing the transmission of pathogenic (disease-causing) bacteria, viruses and parasites the success of some low-cost, community based public health campaigns to prevent, treat or control infections, illustrated by a video of a unique rural health programme in...
Defining your research methodology
Education & Development

Defining your research methodology

...resources and approaches to answer different research questions or different aspects of the same question. They aim at producing more in-depth findings. For example, you can explore what the levels of online engagement are of students who scored below 50% in exams using quantitative methods. You can then understand why they had these levels of online engagement using...
Understanding economic inequality
Society, Politics & Law

Understanding economic inequality

...resources from households to firms as shown by the green arrow in Figure 1. Economic resources are also transferred from households to firms as consumption spending of the former on goods produced by the latter. In return for this flow of labour and consumption from households to firms there is a corresponding flow of income from firms to households, as shown by the...
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Year of the Rat: Chinese New Year
Languages

Year of the Rat: Chinese New Year

...of their reproduction rate, married couples also prayed to them for children. The Chinese New Year of 2020 falls on January 25th (Saturday), and the festival will last to February 8th, about 15 days in total. Celebrate the new year by dipping into some of our fantastic resources on China and Chinese. Want to learn some Chinese words and phrases? Explore Chinese culture...
100 Years of Votes for (some) Women
History & The Arts

100 Years of Votes for (some) Women

...1918, 8.5 million women voted for the first time in a General Election. To celebrate this historic event we've made a short film on two remarkable suffragettes, Flora Murray and Louisa Garrett Anderson. Check out their incredible story below then dig deeper into our resources on suffragettes, women's history and feminism. Endell Street: A Suffragette Story Transcript...
Try distance learning for FREE with the OU
Education & Development

Try distance learning for FREE with the OU

...resource that’s open to everyone. It’s a great way to see if distance learning is right for you and prepare you for university...There are over 1,000 courses to choose from with no start-dates, so you can begin right away or at a time that suits you. Some courses are based on The Open University degree materials and others are made specifically for OpenLearn, but all...