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...history of the English language! We want all of our content to be a place for engagement with our learners, so please leave comments and if there’s something you want to know on a topic that’s not covered in the podcast, then ask away! And if there’s a subject, a course or a topic on OpenLearn you think would make a good podcast episode, then let us know. So head on...
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Ceasefire anniversary in Northern Ireland: 30 years of an impossible peace
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Ceasefire anniversary in Northern Ireland: 30 years of an impossible peace

...history meets a new generation. “Impossible Peace” Impossible Peace was published by Brian Rowan in August 2024. The project is a marrying of spoken and written words that help tell the story of what the former Clinton adviser Nancy Soderberg describes as a ‘miracle’ emerging out of leadership and vision; that moment, to borrow a thought from Miriam Reynolds,...
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The dot.com bubble
Society, Politics & Law

The dot.com bubble

...history and causes of economic bubbles and focuses on the highs and lows of the dot.com boom of the early 2000s. How do we spot a bubble emerging? Why do we buy into it? And what are the consequences when a bubble bursts? This material forms part of The Open University course DB234 Personal investment in an uncertain world... The dot.com bubble A short introduction to...
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Audio 39 mins
The pensions timebomb
Society, Politics & Law

The pensions timebomb

...history of the pension Why has there been such sever shocks to the pension system that over the last three decades? Final salary pension schemes Nowadays many people are forced to work beyond retirement age, how did this occur and where did it all go wrong? Occupational pension scandals How did £440 million go missing from The Mirror Group pension fund? Who was...
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Audio 46 mins
The Psychological Risks in Reality TV and How Aftercare Should be Done
Health, Sports & Psychology

The Psychological Risks in Reality TV and How Aftercare Should be Done

...family, friends and work colleagues too. Allegations from former participants of perfunctory screening question that have missed pre-existing mental health issues, alleged “wind up” methods in the Green Room to incite conflict before a show commences, have previously been reported. So-called “aftercare” procedures have also come in for criticism for being brief,...
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Group theory
Science, Maths & Technology

Group theory

...family of finite groups, the dicyclic groups...This free course consolidates and builds on group theory studied at OU level 2 or equivalent. Section 1 describes how to construct a group called the direct product of two given groups, and then describes certain conditions under which a group can be regarded as the direct product of its subgroups. Section 2 describes the key...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
Neurodiversity: What is it and what does it look like across races?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Neurodiversity: What is it and what does it look like across races?

...families live in highly stressful environments, thus making their children more vulnerable to hyperactivity’. Yet it has also been argued that this over-identification could be linked to socio-economic disadvantages within these communities or, further still, this misrepresentation could be due to inherent biases and low expectations of teachers with regards to their...
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How can honour killings be stopped?
Health, Sports & Psychology

How can honour killings be stopped?

...family’ or ‘troubled families’ approach which loses its primary focus of protecting victims and holding perpetrators to account. It is also woefully inadequate in meeting the challenges of the collective nature of domestic violence/HBV where codes of ‘honour’ are used to justify, collude or inflict abuse by multiple perpetrators in extended BME families and...
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