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New free courses and hobbies to try while Coronavirus restrictions are in place
Miscellaneous

New free courses and hobbies to try while Coronavirus restrictions are in place

...Work Beginners' Italian: Food and Drink Beginners' French: A Trip to Avignon Explore how you can dig a little deeper in languages with The OU. Succeed in the workplace Perhaps this time has made you revaluate your working life? Check out our badged course, and if you are returning to a in Science, Technology, Engineering or Maths (STEM), feast your eyes on our interactive...
Past-Time Lover: Charles Darwin
History & The Arts

Past-Time Lover: Charles Darwin

...work on the theory of evolution? I published a book entitled On the Origin of Species, which provided evidence towards the theory of evolution, but also proposed my theory on how exactly evolution works. Modern biology stems from this theory and life on Earth is much better understood due to my theory of natural selection. I have become quite the household name. My theory...
Managing my money for young adults: in partnership with the Harrison Foundation
Money & Business

Managing my money for young adults: in partnership with the Harrison Foundation

...work and, therefore, contribute to the production of goods and services. More importantly, young adults are literally the future of the UK economy. This is because young adults will play a big role in creating innovative products and services. Some of these innovations will create large successful businesses and, at the same time, help the society to solve major...
Larry Achiampong – Challenging Colonial Narratives with Art
History & The Arts

Larry Achiampong – Challenging Colonial Narratives with Art

...work spans various media, including video, installation, and performance, allowing him to engage with audiences in diverse ways. He blends personal narrative and collective memory, often drawing on his Ghanaian heritage while addressing broader socio-political issues and raising important questions about the legacies of colonialism. Using digital media Achiampong creates...
Ratting out disease: How animals are detecting disease - and other threats to life
Health, Sports & Psychology

Ratting out disease: How animals are detecting disease - and other threats to life

...work here in Morogoro, a few hundred kilometres west of Tanzania’s largest city, Dar es Salaam, on a programme to sniff out tuberculosis (TB). TB is a disease that can destroy the lungs. About 9 million new cases are diagnosed worldwide every year, one-quarter of them in Africa. Africa also has the highest TB death rate per head of population. Antibiotics can cure TB,...
Why do some cities thrive?
Science, Maths & Technology

Why do some cities thrive?

...work in Milton Keynes] Building the dream: Development work in Milton Keynes Arguably, everything about Milton Keynes is deliberate: its site, its transport, its housing, its business sectors, its jobs. From the moment of its ‘birth’ in 1967 as one of the country’s ‘new towns’, Milton Keynes was planned as a whole. Over the past three decades, it has out-smarted...
What happens to the poorest in a cashless society?
Science, Maths & Technology

What happens to the poorest in a cashless society?

...working poor rely almost exclusively on cash, with about 97 percent of all transactions involving an exchange of rupees. With 93 percent of the country working in informal off-the-books jobs, most transactions entail personalized relationships rather than standardized forms of legal contract or corporate institutions. My own research on the persistence of Delhi’s...
Struggling to be heard: One woman’s video story
Society, Politics & Law

Struggling to be heard: One woman’s video story

...working in the railway? After three years at the Inland Revenue and having no luck with each promotion I went for, I spotted an advert in the local paper looking for Train Conductors to join Scotrail. As a single mum at the time, I had a heart to heart with my young daughter’s childminder and she encouraged me to go for it and said that we would work her caring for...