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Rent or buy? The challenge of access to housing
Money & Business

Rent or buy? The challenge of access to housing

...change? This free course can help you with your own housing decisions, as well as understand the politics that often drive the housing market...Everyone needs a place they call home and housing costs are usually your largest outgoing. Many aspire to buy, but rising house prices, while good news for existing owners, put homeownership beyond the reach of others. This free...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
George at Asda – What makes clothing ownership and use sustainable?
Money & Business

George at Asda – What makes clothing ownership and use sustainable?

...change shape and size, simply wear-out our clothing, and like to adapt to changing fashions so feel special in our clothes. Avoiding throwing things away when we have finished with them, so they don’t end up in landfill, can be a real way to make the clothing we own more sustainable. Donating unwanted clothing to friends, family or good causes for reuse or for recycling...
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Why was the Systems Thinking in Practice hub created?
Society, Politics & Law

Why was the Systems Thinking in Practice hub created?

...changes may have unforeseen consequences. Systems thinking is an approach that complements scientific thinking by addressing these multiple perspectives, examining boundary judgements and modelling interconnections. Systems thinking in practice itself has a long history and has developed from many different disciplinary traditions and used many different techniques and...
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Irish Women’s Poetry
OpenLearn Ireland

Irish Women’s Poetry

...changed in the twenty-first century? Learn about some of the key figures in Irish women’s poetry in this collection...This collection will introduce you to a number of key contemporary Irish women poets in the twenty-first century. It will focus on Irish women’s poetry through the work of three leading poets – Eavan Boland, Sinéad Morrissey and Colette Bryce –...
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Sound Systems: Listening to music together
History & The Arts

Sound Systems: Listening to music together

...changes took place in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries thanks to fast-paced technological change. In the nineteenth century it became possible to record a musical performance and replay it again and again, and in the twentieth century, electronic technology enabled both virtually unlimited private listening via portable devices as well as amplification efficient...
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Strangers on a train platform: Refugees feel the hostility of Hungary
Society, Politics & Law

Strangers on a train platform: Refugees feel the hostility of Hungary

...Climate of fear Hungary has long been polarised over Europe. Fidesz and its sister party KDNP (the Christian Democratic People’s Party) have stirred up popular fear and hatred of the West, of Western capitalism, and of Western lifestyles, which promote “unnatural” relationships. Fidesz has styled itself as a guardian of “Europe” against the threat of the...
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UK nuclear industry faces Brexit fall-out
Society, Politics & Law

UK nuclear industry faces Brexit fall-out

...Board, which was established by the UK government in 2013, said a whole lot of new international agreements would have to be in place before anything in the nuclear sector could be transferred between countries. “We would be crippled without other agreements in place,” she said. Originally published on May 17th by the Climate News Network, written by Paul Brown...
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The Dates of the Buddha
History & The Arts

The Dates of the Buddha

...climate for the acceptance of Buddhist ideas, and generated among Buddhist monks certain expectations of patronage and influence on the machinery of political decision making. Prior to Ashoka Buddhism was a relatively minor tradition in India and some scholars have proposed that the impact of the Buddha in his own day was relatively limited. Archaeological evidence for...
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