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Sustainable innovations in enterprises
Money & Business

Sustainable innovations in enterprises

...account and things like that, trying to get my passport. JOHN BROWN: When I first became homeless, I was 16. I met a girl and made [INAUDIBLE] with her. I had a child, got married, and then fell out with her, and ended back on the street again. JOE HART: I never had anywhere to stay, unless it was on a friend's couch or under a bridge. PETER HART: I used to sell the Big...
The law-making process in England and Wales
Society, Politics & Law

The law-making process in England and Wales

...account, checking proposed legislation, and debating and approving or rejecting new legislation. It is the role of the first minister, who is commonly known as the Prime Minister, to take responsibility for forming the government and to appoint members of the government to take responsibility for specific areas, such as health or education. You have now considered what a...
Exploring the history of prisoner education Badge icon
History & The Arts

Exploring the history of prisoner education

...accounts offer a specific idea or circumstance as an explanation, others refer to a national trait such as ‘British pluck’. One step towards being a critical thinker is to be aware of our preconceptions. [This is a large-scale oil painting of a battle scene. Commanders on horseback in the centre foreground are surrounded by hundreds of red-uniformed foot soldiers....
The First World War: trauma and memory
History & The Arts

The First World War: trauma and memory

...account that plays with our prior knowledge of the condition and revisits many of the common assumptions that we have about shell shock, and about the First World War from a British perspective. BBC - iWonder - Did Craiglockhart hospital revolutionise mental health? Claudia Hammond explores the variety of treatments available at the famous First World War hospital. (Some...
Software and the law
Science, Maths & Technology

Software and the law

...account of the law with examples from around the world – we want to enable you to explore the laws of your own country to understand their scope in your context. This OpenLearn course is an adapted extract from the Open University postgraduate computing course, M814 Software Engineering...Software and the law: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should...
Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
Managing complexity: a systems approach
Society, Politics & Law

Managing complexity: a systems approach

...account of external factors such as the time you have or the circumstances in which you study? Are you basing your judgement on your own evaluation of your intellectual capacities? Do energy, enthusiasm and commitment come into the evaluation? The activity you have just engaged in is the first of several such activities. It is an example of a pattern of activities that...
A journey through two Englands
History & The Arts

A journey through two Englands

...account were accustomed to say that "they never meddled with politics themselves." The busy scenes of the shuttle and the wheel, of the roaring furnace, of the shaft and the pulley, seemed to make but crowded nests in the midst of the large-spaced, slow-moving life of homesteads and far-away cottages and oak-sheltered parks. Looking at the dwellings scattered amongst the...
Should the EU give up on 'ever closer' union?
Society, Politics & Law

Should the EU give up on 'ever closer' union?

...accountability would be at the centre of policymaking from day one. This system of flexible differentiation might face fierce criticism due to its complexity. It can be argued that it is counter-intuitive because the union is too complex already. But it is not flexible enough. After Brexit and the economic and refugee crises, the EU has entered a phase in which...