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Supporting sustainable and responsible space exploration
Science, Maths & Technology

Supporting sustainable and responsible space exploration

...businesses, space agencies and more. My current work at Astrobiology OU aims to strike the right balance between industry’s need for agile and cost-effective processes for building spacecraft and rovers and scientists’ desires to conduct meaningful, state-of-the-art, astrobiology experiments. [The ExoMars - Rosalind Franklin - Rover during the environmental testing...
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Remembering Peter and John
Society, Politics & Law

Remembering Peter and John

...Business School Summer Schools. After retirement he spent a bit more time in the garden but continued to contribute to the union by supporting colleagues in dispute with the management. A colleague in Social Sciences recalled that ‘you always knew when John was coming. You always heard those clip-clop brogues and you always knew they would be have to be accompanied by a...
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Education & Development

English: skills for learning

...Business School. Week 2...Week 3: Writing university assignments: Introduction - This week you will start to look at university writing, a very important student activity. You will first consider which aspects of your current writing will be useful when it comes to university-level writing and which might need a bit more work. Then you will move on to look at university...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
The problem with crime
Society, Politics & Law

The problem with crime

...business skills. Niven, who also studied art at one time, has an artist's eye for his city - the streets, the buildings, the effect oflight - and his Glasgow is a beautiful place as well as a prosperous one. SEANDAMER The events of the First World War were to change all that. The emergence ofa genuinely national British press in the nineteenth century was vital in this...
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Level 2: Intermediate 1 hr
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Money & Business

Exploring career mentoring and coaching

...busy life. If you're interested in exploring any of the topics in more detail, the references section at the end of each week provides sources of further reading. By the end of this week, you will be able to: recognise definitions of mentoring and coaching describe the differences and similarities between mentoring and coaching review and reflect on any mentoring and/or...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
What does the US election mean for Europe?
Society, Politics & Law

What does the US election mean for Europe?

...money suggests that she will still win the election, if only because of the vagaries of the US electoral system. But, even if true, the effect on voting for US Senators – what Americans refer to as “down-ballot voting” – could be significant. Faced with this continuously raucous process, relatively few Americans – beyond each candidate’s transition teams –...
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Attacked but not hacked: How secure was the US election?
Society, Politics & Law

Attacked but not hacked: How secure was the US election?

...money and expertise are available to make it happen in communities all across the country – admittedly not an easy task during a period of widespread budget constraints. These concerns align with the basic principles of cybersecurity that apply to any organization. Information resources and their data must remain available and accessible to authorized users,...
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The Struggle For Pay Equality in Scotland’s Colleges
Society, Politics & Law

The Struggle For Pay Equality in Scotland’s Colleges

...money! The other colleges have accepted a deterioration in pay, terms and conditions, so you have to.’ This blackmail worked in colleges with weaker union organisation but failed in those that were strongly organised. This widened the gap between colleges even more. Ironically, what the merger process did was to combine the weaker and stronger branches which brought the...
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