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Understanding water quality
Nature & Environment

Understanding water quality

...everyday concerns like housing development, health, jobs, air quality, educational achievement, wildlife and economic prosperity. The indicators provide an overview of national progress towards a more sustainable economy, society and environment. The SDIs are used as a means of assessing whether the nation as a whole is developing sustainably, and as a means for...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
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Money & Business

Effective communication in the workplace

...everyday conversations to the digital workplaces of the future...Many of the problems we encounter in the workplace are the result of poor communication. Whether we are frustrated by a lack of information from senior managers or worrying about how to break bad news to a colleague, communication is often at the root of the issue and the solution. By learning how to...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
EPQs: writing up your dissertation
Education & Development

EPQs: writing up your dissertation

...English, where one word can have a variety of meanings. She suggest perhaps using a thesaurus, but that could lead down the pathway of having too many words to choose from and not being able to decide which one to pick. Thinking about the dissertation, she introduces a word we all dread – waffling! No one wants to be a waffler, and giving too much information might make...
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Philosophy: the nature of persons
History & The Arts

Philosophy: the nature of persons

...English. Technical or semi-technical terms should only be used when – as in this case – plain English provides no easy way around a potential confusion. Why is the question as to the nature of persons a question for philosophers not biologists? In ordinary language, ‘person’ is often used synonymously with ‘human being’. For example, we find out how many...
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Level 3: Advanced 15 hrs
A spiritual revolution? Wicca and religious change in the 1960s
History & The Arts

A spiritual revolution? Wicca and religious change in the 1960s

...English, 1973) and the influential Pagan writer Starhawk’s The Spiral Dance (1979) leaned into this idea. The work of Starhawk and others also presented an interpretation of Wicca that was more closely aligned with emerging New Age ideas, and the seekership of the baby boomers more broadly. These books helped lead to the boom of the ‘teen witch’ in the 1990s, and...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
Health and safety in the laboratory and field
Science, Maths & Technology

Health and safety in the laboratory and field

...English, this section describes the duty of the employer to minimise the risks from equipment and substances to those who are not employed, e.g. undergraduate student, visitors, maintenance contractors, members of the public, etc., also to ensure that these people have a safe entry to and exit from the premises of the employer. The Management of Health and Safety at Work...
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Level 1: Introductory 1 hr
What are waves?
Science, Maths & Technology

What are waves?

...everyday use of waves relies on the physics of what happens after a wave meets an object and is reflected. Think back to the times you heard a sound echo. If you made the sound, then you would know that the longer the gap between the sound and the echo, then the further away the object that the sound was reflecting from. If you know the speed the sound wave is travelling...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
Introducing multidisciplinary study at The Open University
Education & Development

Introducing multidisciplinary study at The Open University

...everyday problems through the lens of different disciplines provides exciting opportunities to find ways in which subjects connect and influence each other. Flexible study has always been at the heart of the Open University. Our unique Open qualifications allow you to combine subjects and develop your knowledge and skills across a range of disciplines. Enabling you to...
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Level 1: Introductory 2 hrs