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Home education: levelling the playing field or increasing inequalities?
Education & Development

Home education: levelling the playing field or increasing inequalities?

...Studies qualification. [Sign saying 'EXAMS AHEAD' next to books] EHE students have to pay in full and sit exams as private candidates, organising their own exams with willing exam centres; at a school, college or independent exam centre, often not local. With Teacher Assessed Grades (TAG), the teacher completing their assessment/timed mock-exam-style assessments had to be...
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Introduction to algebra
Science, Maths & Technology

Introduction to algebra

...study each of the sections; the whole extract should take about 16 hours to study. The extract is a small part (around 7%) of a large module that is studied over eight months, and so can give only an approximate indication of the level and content of the full module. The extract, which contains the first introduction to algebra in the MU123, is relatively self-contained...
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Level 1: Introductory 16 hrs
Introducing music research
History & The Arts

Introducing music research

...skills: A guide for students studying emotionally challenging content’ guidance. Please also be aware that this section contains strong language. One notable event that is associated with grime is the murder of Richard Holmes by Carl Dobson. The event and its aftermath have been reported by a variety of news publications, which you will explore here. In 2006, Carl...
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Level 3: Advanced 12 hrs
What does an engineer look like?
Science, Maths & Technology

What does an engineer look like?

...studies) at Stanford University in 1977, and a Doctorate degree in medicine from Cornell University in 1981. After receiving her doctorate, she worked as a General Practitioner while attending graduate engineering classes in Los Angeles. She was named an astronaut candidate in 1987, and flew her first flight as a science mission specialists on STS-47, Spacelab-J, in...
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Embodied Intersectionality and British South Asian Muslim Women
Society, Politics & Law

Embodied Intersectionality and British South Asian Muslim Women

...study the experiences of ethnic minority communities? Embodied differences Let’s start with embodied or embodiment. To embody is to represent an idea or quality exactly, and in relation to the body, whereas embodiment is the process or state of living in a body. Our bodies are uniquely connected to our sense of self, but also how we relate to or understand our social...
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Opening up history: art in the Reformation
History & The Arts

Opening up history: art in the Reformation

...study, my undergraduate tutor asked me what themes in history I was interested in and what languages I knew. I was interested in early modern gender and religion and spoke a little German. Those questions set me on my way – during my Master’s I studied the correspondence of Abbess Caritas Pirckheimer who resisted pressure to close her convent during the Protestant...
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Leadership: external context and culture
Education & Development

Leadership: external context and culture

...studying this free course, Leadership: external context and culture, you will develop your understanding of the impact of external context and culture on the practice of leadership. The course begins by exploring the nature ‘societal culture’, identifying how culture, at a number of levels, impacts on leadership. We then explore how the external context within which...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
Jury Hub Conversation: Lee Curley and Dominic Willmott
Society, Politics & Law

Jury Hub Conversation: Lee Curley and Dominic Willmott

Lee Curley and Dominic Willmott discuss their interests in the field of jury research, and recent developments in this area of study...Find out about The Open University's Law courses. Podcast transcript
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