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History How-to videos: Decoding medals
History & The Arts

History How-to videos: Decoding medals

...Researching military history can be quite time-consuming but it can also be really rewarding because the military keep excellent records. Success is all about doing your homework properly. Phil Wellbelove has sent us this photograph and medal. He wants to know what this medal is for. It’s a substantial looking medal with three bars on it. All he knows is that this is...
History How-to videos: Metal detection
History & The Arts

History How-to videos: Metal detection

...researching different types of artefacts and coins that I found, so that gave me an interest in history that started growing in me over the years. When you go on a new site that you know has got a good bit of history there is a good bit of excitement there and you’re envisaging, you’re actually trying to look under the soil. In your brain, you envisage all these...
What is the national learning hub for volunteers?
Education & Development

What is the national learning hub for volunteers?

...needs and opportunities? These free OpenLearn courses will help you on your quest, featuring topics like: communication relationship skills human resources freedom to act physical effort mental effort emotional effort working conditions business acumen skills research and development Get started and discover content with our website for people who work with volunteers....
Edward Lear's Nonsense Songs
History & The Arts

Edward Lear's Nonsense Songs

...researching her own sequel, children’s author Julia Donaldson discovered that Lear wrote – but never completed – his own follow-up. In this fragment the cat falls out of a tree and the “elegant fowl” goes demented with grief – treading the characteristically fine line between joy and melancholy in Lear’s writing. Edward Lear – the 20th child of a bankrupt...
Open Hip Hop
History & The Arts

Open Hip Hop

...research and share their work in a managed safe environment...WHY: Following two very successful biannual conferences, feedback from our delegates and supporters have led us to conclude that this type of platform is both innovative and essential and requires an ongoing effort to secure a structured, organised and accessible space for Hip Hop Education. WHAT: Our aim is to...
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Women in Science
Science, Maths & Technology

Women in Science

...Researcher, Clare Warren, nominates Dorothy Hodgkin - the first British woman to win a Nobel Prize. Barbara McClintock American geneticist Barbara McClintock won a Nobel for her pioneering work on genetic transposition. Chosen by Dr Hilary MacQueen, Head of the Department of Life Sciences at The Open University. Women in Science Today All the speakers work at The Open...
COVID-19: Making decisions based on flawed statistics
Science, Maths & Technology

COVID-19: Making decisions based on flawed statistics

...researchers at the University of Manchester and other UK institutes claimed that ‘by the end of the second week in April, 29% of the population may already have had the disease’. Many newspapers jumped on this news, which suggests that 19 million out of the 67 million UK residents have already been infected with COVID-19, with survivors now having immunity. This would...
Creativity, community and ICT
Education & Development

Creativity, community and ICT

...research indicates that educational institutions rarely promote the creative process. Many schools tend to focus on enculturating students into existing school knowledge, driven by a concern for individual children to acquire certain amounts of ‘statutory’ know-how before leaving a particular key stage. Research also suggests, however, that in settings where...
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