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Population ageing: a global health crisis?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Population ageing: a global health crisis?

...money out, less money in. Economic impact: Growth, Savings, Debt, Investment, Consumption, Labor markets, Pensions, Taxation Social impact: Family composition, Living arrangements, Housing demand, Migration trends, Health care Political impact: Voting patterns, Political representation The elderly bring: Inspiration – values, Work ethic – culture, Leadership –...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Succeed in the workplace Badge icon
Education & Development

Succeed in the workplace

...business that the employer is within. Ramesh: I usually do a background on the company where I'm attending the interview to see how the company has evolved during the last few years and in what direction are they aiming and how I can be an asset to that organisation. Paul: I'd want them to feel that I'd actually made the effort to find out something about them. Rachael:...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Bill Hare - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Bill Hare - Stories of Change

...money, they need resources, they need finance, they need expertise. For these countries they will want to know this deal will deliver to us maybe not enough but enough to get moving, the resources, the technology, expertise that we need to start dealing with the problem and that will need to be real and deliverable for them to say, ‘Actually, this works for us.’ RH:...
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Hybrid working: starting in the workplace
Money & Business

Hybrid working: starting in the workplace

...business, education and government, discusses what employers can do to maximise diversity and enable social mobility, observing that ‘learning and development plays an important role in levelling the playing field for socially diverse talent’. Recruiting and retaining that socially diverse talent benefits both employers and employees but, as Gemma Hallett, Head of...
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Level 1: Introductory 7 hrs
Election days: 1779 - Save Britain from crisis!
History & The Arts

Election days: 1779 - Save Britain from crisis!

...money (which has, alas, been too disgracefully lavished away, in company with our national honour) are greater than were made to support the full glory of conquest in Mr Pitt's administration; although those immense inlets to wealth which then were open are now shut up. Add to these considerations, that fatal precipitancy, whereby we seem hastening to unavoidable ruin,...
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Article 5 mins
Chlorine-washed chicken: An OpenLearn reading list
Money & Business

Chlorine-washed chicken: An OpenLearn reading list

...money. Writing at the Institute For Government, Oliver Ilott suggests the main barrier to cross is the tariff barrier: A trade deal between the US and UK may attempt to remove tariffs in areas where they are high. These are almost all in agriculture. On the US side, there are 22 import duty rates above 100%, all on agricultural products. This makes some agricultural goods...
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Article 10 mins
Protest Banners: Trade Union
Society, Politics & Law

Protest Banners: Trade Union

...money to the strike fund. Eleanor Marx (daughter of Karl Marx, revolutionary philosopher) taught several of the strike leaders to read! So, though it might look as if, 30 plus years later, the Dockside branches were beaten back down, the 1920s banner does portray a strong well set up worker, a worthy heir to those who struggled to have a bigger share of the profits they...
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Sea level rise in London, UK
Nature & Environment

Sea level rise in London, UK

...money) (RGS, 2020) in damage and lost income to the city. The economic importance of London is a central factor in the government response to this issue. How has London adapted to the challenge? In 1953 the decision was taken to protect the city with a barrier downstream at Woolwich which could be closed when high tide was forecast. The Thames Barrier was completed in...
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Article 5 mins