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Foreign interference?
Digital & Computing

Foreign interference?

...technology-43788338 https://www.us-cert.gov/ncas/alerts/TA18-106A https://blog.talosintelligence.com/2018/04/critical-infrastructure-at-risk.html The second story involves a Chinese state-owned telecoms manufacturer called ZTE. The National Cyber Security Centre has written to UK telecom operators warning them that using ZTE devices and software could risk national...
Engendering citizenship
Society, Politics & Law

Engendering citizenship

...education at Cambridge University. Activity 1 Listen to the audio file. You may find it helpful to listen to the recording a second time and take notes that help define the ideas of social citizenship. Engendering citizenship part 1 (12.5 minutes 5 MB) Mary Langan We are going to look at citizenship, not citizenship just in the legal sense, but the idea of social...
Level 2: Intermediate 1 hr
Sex and the Natsal surveys – how do you compare?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Sex and the Natsal surveys – how do you compare?

...Educational Resources (OERs). Specifically OERs derived from the National Surveys of Sexual Attitudes and Lifestyles (Natsal)...Find out more about The Open University’s statistics qualifications. Transcript The first is an animation - “5 facts you didn’t know about sex in Britain” which can be viewed above, followed by our interactive - “No sex please, we’re...
Islam in the West
History & The Arts

Islam in the West

...education and social and political engagement; and the politics of multiculturalism. Controversial Muslim intellectual, Tariq Ramadan provides a challenging insider’s perspective on the issues discussed, plus other interviews with authors, critics and Muslim community leaders. The course will be of particular relevance to teachers, social workers, police and health...
Where a ban has been replaced by a bee
Languages

Where a ban has been replaced by a bee

...Education Act. The federal legislation encouraged school districts to incorporate native language instruction for children with limited English-speaking ability. A 2010 study in the Review of Educational Research Journal surveyed 63 studies on the effects of bilingualism. It found that being able to speak multiple languages correlates with increased working memory, better...
Data analysis and interpretation
Education & Development

Data analysis and interpretation

...educational research by involving the collection and analysis of interview data online in a student-instigated study (Fox et al., 2022). Alternatively, researchers could reflect on their analysis and discuss as a limitation of the study not having included participants’ perspectives in such direct manner. Lucy Yardley (2017) suggested that researchers must show...
Passports: identity and airports
Society, Politics & Law

Passports: identity and airports

...education to the children of the poor, systemised this practise. By the nineteenth century, branding and marking were no longer widely acceptable as means of identification. While clothing persisted as a guide to social identity, more universal means of identification were sought. Passport systems were widely used throughout nineteenth century Europe and included security...
Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Economics explains discrimination in the labour market
Society, Politics & Law

Economics explains discrimination in the labour market

...education, training opportunities or responsibilities for children. Institutional theories tend to focus more on explaining why there are some jobs in which workers suffer labour market disadvantage. These workers will have low productivity so will not necessarily be facing pay discrimination. Rather, the labour market disadvantages that these workers face are...