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Autumn Statement 2016: Tories shift to growth strategy in an Ed Balls-style pirouette
Society, Politics & Law

Autumn Statement 2016: Tories shift to growth strategy in an Ed Balls-style pirouette

...analysis. And when reality bites, a switch is made from taxing less to spending more on structures that can constitute a public asset as “security” for the additional public debt. Labour broke the deficit-boosting record in 2008-10 – but only after the unprecedented bailing-out of a collapsed financial sector. It had previously reduced the public debt, by moving the...
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How radical was Martin Luther King?
History & The Arts

How radical was Martin Luther King?

...analysis of what linked poverty and violence both at home and abroad. While he had spoken out before about the effects of colonialism, he now made the connection unmistakably clear. He said: “I speak for those whose land is being laid waste, whose homes are being destroyed, whose culture is being subverted. I speak for the poor in America who are paying the double price...
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Chelsea Manning: An OpenLearn reading list
Society, Politics & Law

Chelsea Manning: An OpenLearn reading list

...data CD disguised as a music disc, from which the materials were transferred to a laptop and then to the WikiLeaks servers for dissemination. The reports were widely published around the world and caused enormous diplomatic embarrassment for the United States government. Manning was eventually identified after confessing in an online chat to Adrian Lamo, who informed the...
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Five ways in which COVID-19 has impacted on progress in global health
Health, Sports & Psychology

Five ways in which COVID-19 has impacted on progress in global health

...Data taken from the Demographic Health surveys of Kenya (2014), Malawi (2015-16), Mozambique (2011), Nigeria (2018), South Africa (2016), Tanzania (2015-16), Uganda (2016), Zambia (2018) and Zimbabwe (2015) that are nationally representative Source: STATCOMPILER tables Due to COVID-19 several countries have witnessed a fall in institutional deliveries. This is mainly due...
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Article 15 mins
Modelling the planets
Science, Maths & Technology

Modelling the planets

...data to be sure. Are they actually similar to Earth’s continents, and if they are, what does that mean for Venus? Could they have formed in a similar environment to Earth? There’s some speculation that Venus might still be volcanically active. If future missions find fresh lava flows, it might confirm that. I’ll use the data I gathered in the Icelandic basalt to...
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Leadership for inclusion: thinking it through
Education & Development

Leadership for inclusion: thinking it through

...analysis of the five participants’ data. You will be reading about Sophie, a 30-year-old European New Zealander. Prior to entering the Masters teaching programme, Sophie had a bachelor’s degree double majoring in marketing and advertising and worked as an account manager. Read: from The paragraph which begins: ‘In terms of the kind of teacher she would like to be’...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
Engineering: The challenge of temperature
Science, Maths & Technology

Engineering: The challenge of temperature

...data from a thermally activated process in terms of Arrhenius's law identify the changes of phase taking place in a variety of critical phenomena provide examples of gradual, accelerating and sudden changes in the properties of materials that accompany changes in temperature...Engineering: The challenge of temperature: 1 Temperature – problem or solution? - 'Have you...
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Level 2: Intermediate 40 hrs
Practice supervision and assessment in nursing
Health, Sports & Psychology

Practice supervision and assessment in nursing

...analysis template below. What do you believe you bring to a practice learning role (Strengths)? What development do you require to address any specific learning needs (Learning needs)? What might the role of practice supervisor/assessor add to your own professional (and personal) development (Opportunities)? What barriers might there be for you if taking on this...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs