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Maths skills for Science
Science, Maths & Technology

Maths skills for Science

Want to study science but worried you don't have the maths skills required for higher education? Fret not! We have a handy interactive guide to get you on track...[Maths for science gif] Select the image to begin your maths challenge.
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Syria, Spitsbergen and Seeds
Society, Politics & Law

Syria, Spitsbergen and Seeds

...Open University’s Department of Geography where I currently work as a Research Associate. I’m going to examine how conflict in the Middle East risked disrupting research into the future security of the world’s food supplies, and find out how a revolutionary project on the remote island of Spitsbergen acted to keep that research going. This case captures, for me,...
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Coming to America: The Making of the Irish-American Diaspora
OpenLearn Ireland

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

...Open University. https://www.open.edu/openlearn/history-the-arts/national-identity-britain-and-ireland-17801840/content-section-2 Diner, H. (1984) Erin’s Daughters in America: Irish Immigrant Women in the Nineteenth Century, Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press. Donnelly, J.S., (2002) The Great Irish Potato Famine, Stroud, Gloucestershire: Sutton Publishing Ltd....
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Article 5 mins
Brain Awareness Week
Science, Maths & Technology

Brain Awareness Week

...resources from our experts about the brain, from articles to free courses. Spend a few minutes thinking about what your brain does You could have come up with many different things. For example, the brain controls our movements and our basically bodily functions such as hunger and thirst. It also allows us to interact with the world around us by interpreting information...
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Article 1 hr
Vitality Netball Nations Cup 2025: can the England Roses go all the way?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Vitality Netball Nations Cup 2025: can the England Roses go all the way?

...opening game, they defeated Malawi 62-36. The following day, despite playing better as a team, and being neck and neck with them at the end of every quarter, South Africa just clinched the victory at the end winning by 2 points 59-61. Paige Reed of the Roses battles with Martha Dambo of Malawi, 1 February 2025 The fast-paced invasion sporting competition is being aired...
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Can I use 'we' and 'I' in my essay? Introducing corpus linguistics
Languages

Can I use 'we' and 'I' in my essay? Introducing corpus linguistics

...Open and I've searched the whole BAWE corpus: [Screengrab showing instances of the word 'we' in the British Academic Written English corpus as returned by SketchEngine] Click on the image to see a larger version From this screenshot, we can see that BAWE contains 15,718 instances of 'we' (or 1,885 per million words). A similar search for 'I' reveals that there are 13,069...
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Article 10 mins
Carrying out research for policy and advocacy work
Society, Politics & Law

Carrying out research for policy and advocacy work

...overlooked, the publishers will be pleased to make the necessary arrangements at the first opportunity. Don't miss out If reading this text has inspired you to learn more, you may be interested in joining the millions of people who discover our free learning resources and qualifications by visiting The Open University – www.open.edu/ openlearn/ free-courses....
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Using film music in the classroom
Education & Development

Using film music in the classroom

...inadvertently overlooked, the publishers will be pleased to make the necessary arrangements at the first opportunity. Don't miss out: If reading this text has inspired you to learn more, you may be interested in joining the millions of people who discover our free learning resources and qualifications by visiting The Open University - www.open.edu/ openlearn/ free-courses...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs