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How can we stop science, engineering and technology losing talented women?
Digital & Computing

How can we stop science, engineering and technology losing talented women?

...students, some of whom will of course become the next generation of scientists and engineers themselves. This report is important in setting out specific recommendations which should make a difference in helping more women reach senior positions. But in my view it shouldn’t just be about those high achieving women at the top. Yes, it’s symbolic to have women in senior...
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How can your accent put your life at risk?
Languages

How can your accent put your life at risk?

...students who were considered lazy and poorly motivated on the basis of their English expression; or consumers who did not manage to return faulty products within the warranty period because shop assistants pretended not to understand them. Mundane interactions such as these have broad social consequences. Far from interacting on a level playing field, NESB speakers have...
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A very brief history of AI
Digital & Computing

A very brief history of AI

...become a much more efficient man since his efforts would no longer be limited to the one-to-one patient-therapist as now exists. In actuality (as Weizenbaum was all too willing to explain to anyone willing to listen) ELIZA is a relatively simple program that recognises certain words and phrases entered by the user and uses it to generate one of a series of its own...
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On the death of Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela
Society, Politics & Law

On the death of Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela

...students and workers, many of which ended in bloody massacres. Mandela was by now convinced that the ANC had no alternative but to take up armed struggle. During his long years of imprisonment, the apartheid government was slowly losing its grip on power. The anti-apartheid movement helped to ostracise the regime internationally. The South African Defence Force’s air of...
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Why Study Philosophers?
History & The Arts

Why Study Philosophers?

...OU's series Journeys In Thought explored philosophy through six programmes about six philosophers: Arendt, Kierkegaard, Wittgenstein, Nietzsche, Marx, and Rousseau. But how representative of philosophy are these six? This is a more controversial question than it sounds. According to some philosophers they are representative, according to others they are hardly...
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Haymaking is critical to our heritage meadows, but is later really better?
Nature & Environment

Haymaking is critical to our heritage meadows, but is later really better?

...student, Vicky Bowskill, explains how researching seasonal changes in the nutritional content of hay can help conserve the UK's precious species-rich floodplain meadows... [farmers in a field haymaking in the early 1900s] Haymaking in the early 1900s, newspaper cutting from my grandmother's scrapbooks. [farmers on a tractor haymaking during the 1950s post-war agricultural...
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Using digital tools in teaching
Education & Development

Using digital tools in teaching

...students? How can podcasts be shared for teaching purposes? Explore these questions and more in the three short animations and associated article below. [Digital champions logo. Blue circle with outline of a face in white, white spots in the brain area. Digital champions in blue]The Digital Champions are a group of colleagues from the School of Early Childhood, Youth and...
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Discussing intersectionality: race, gender and social class
Society, Politics & Law

Discussing intersectionality: race, gender and social class

...inequalities based on social divisions of gender, race, class and the intersections of these? Transcript Why do you think it is important that students learn about race, gender, social class and intersectionality to better understand social research? Transcript These videos were filmed for the Open University course DD215 Social research: crime, justice and society....
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