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Everyday maths 1 (Northern Ireland)
Science, Maths & Technology

Everyday maths 1 (Northern Ireland)

...business and people and skills. For more information visit UK Shared Prosperity Fund: prospectus - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk) The content in the Everyday maths Northern Ireland courses maps the Essential Skills Numeracy curriculum in Northern Ireland and can be used as a helpful resource to prepare you for studying an Essential Skills Numeracy qualification. For information on...
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Level 1: Introductory 48 hrs
Exploring Religion in London
History & The Arts

Exploring Religion in London

...busy. We have visitors, because as I said before, we also have the Buddhism day school. The young children come to the temple to learn about Buddhism, Thai culture and Thai language. Their parents would come here to do chanting, meditate also, and even to have a chat with their friends and with their colleagues. Most visitors are Thai, and they are Buddhists. I thought...
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Video 30 mins
Taking your first steps into higher education Badge icon
Education & Development

Taking your first steps into higher education

...Business School. Week 4...Week 5: Work, inequality and diversity in families: Introduction - First watch this video in which Jonathan introduces Week 5 and the first quiz to count towards your badge: Jonathan Hughes - Author Welcome to Week 5 of this course, the second of the two social science weeks. Last week you were looking at identity. Who’d have thought Popeye...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
US Election 2016: A last week reading list
Society, Politics & Law

US Election 2016: A last week reading list

...business consultancy near Frankfurt and is married to a German-Persian woman. I follow the election closely enough to have watched the first debate live at 3 a.m. I was interested, but there was also an ironic aspect. How should I put this? I've come to see it as a bit of cabaret. You could see that Trump wasn't prepared and just kept repeating the same platitudes …...
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Article 5 mins
A year in review 2022
Education & Development

A year in review 2022

...business, and didn’t everyone make the most of it during that hot summer? The Supreme Court ruled there is no constitutional right to abortion in the United States, upending the landmark Roe v Wade case; and railway workers started their strikes in the UK – and they weren’t the last to do so this year! New to OpenLearn: Wimbledon’s centenary was a big hit (pun...
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Article 5 mins
Systems explained: Sir Geoffrey Vickers
Money & Business

Systems explained: Sir Geoffrey Vickers

...business, some in a curious mixture of competition and co-operation which an ecologist finds when he looks under a paving stone or in the Amazon jungle. Systems These systems, certainly at the human end are almost all extremely unstable. And they're mostly unstable because of the destabilizing effect of this one element in the whole thing, man. And we destabilize them...
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Video 10 mins
Coming to America: The Making of the Irish-American Diaspora
OpenLearn Ireland

Coming to America: The Making of the Irish-American Diaspora

...Business 2022: Ireland The Next Century American Chamber of Commerce https://www.amchambusinessreport.com/ Colley, L. (2003) Britons: Forging the Nation 1707–1837, new edn, London: Pimlico. National identity in Britain and Ireland, 1780–1840. Open University.
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Article 5 mins
The Industrial Revolution and Time
History & The Arts

The Industrial Revolution and Time

...business organisation. Co-ordination was essential to bring together supplies of raw materials, to organise workers and distribute their output. No point in having workers turn up at any old time, hoping that someone had brought in the cotton or wool to be processed, or hoping that someone had cleared yesterday’s output. Factories demanded considerable time-management....
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Article 10 mins