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Religious diversity: rethinking religion
History & The Arts

Religious diversity: rethinking religion

...2 Change in religious affiliation, 2001– 2011, England and Wales, in 'Religion in England and Wales, 2011', Office for National Statistics, December 2012. This chart is licensed under the Open Government Licence 3.0, http://reference.data.gov.uk/id/open-government-licence The largest section of the population is represented in orange, those who identify with the general...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Introducing mammals
Nature & Environment

Introducing mammals

...2 Kit fox, Vulpes macrotis [Described image] Figure 3 Dorcas gazelle, Gazella dorcas Clearly these mammals are well adapted to the conditions that they live in. If you think about all the mammals that you have encountered, as well as those you’ve seen in photos and TV programmes, it is apparent that mammals are very diverse in geographical range, in size, in form and in...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Leadership for inclusion: thinking it through
Education & Development

Leadership for inclusion: thinking it through

...2: A philosopher’s perspective Timing: 45 minutes Read the following extract from: MacIntyre, A. and Dunne, J., (2002) ‘Alasdair MacIntyre on education: in dialogue with Joseph Dunne’, Journal of philosophy of education, 36(1), pp.1–19. (The Open University is not responsible for external content.) Open the link in a new tab or window. Begin reading from the...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
Essential for what? A global social reproduction view on the re-organisation of work during the Covid-19 pandemic
Society, Politics & Law

Essential for what? A global social reproduction view on the re-organisation of work during the Covid-19 pandemic

...2), Newman, S and Nahman, M. (2021), Nurture commodified? An investigation into commercial human milk supply chains, Review of International Political Economy (Early Access). About us OU Economics is about real-world economics: through a pluralist approach to the subject, we teach the analytical techniques and practical skills required to understand the world of...
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The thorny issue of ‘driverless’ cars
Society, Politics & Law

The thorny issue of ‘driverless’ cars

...2). In this case, Lexus was the producer of the physical car, but Google was the producer of the algorithms that enabled it to manoeuvre on roads without a driver. To the extent that this accident was the car’s “fault”, the defect must be in the algorithms, and Google clearly accepts this. Section 4 includes the “development defence”, which means that the...
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Will Brexit mean London loses its financial dominance?
Money & Business

Will Brexit mean London loses its financial dominance?

...2 trillion-a-day market. Currently, more than 70% of euro trading takes place in London, compared with 11% in Paris and 7% in Frankfurt, according to Bank for International Settlements data. The European Central Bank has already tried banning clearing houses outside the eurozone from trading the euro. But in 2015, the EU’s highest court disagreed. Hence London’s...
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Reporting in the fog of an attack
History & The Arts

Reporting in the fog of an attack

...2) Don’t trust secondary or single sources 3) Assume nothing, trust nobody, check everything twice Twenty-six years ago, I was in the BBC’s live TV control room as the first bombs fell on Baghdad in the Gulf War. There was a news agency report that Iraq had attacked Israel with chemical weapons. One news network ran it and others then picked it up quoting two sources....
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How did United Airlines get their PR response so wrong?
Money & Business

How did United Airlines get their PR response so wrong?

...2. When you apologise to a customer, sound like you mean it Airlines have, quite rightly, the authority to ask passengers to leave an aircraft if they are genuinely disruptive or are considered a threat to safety. That is as it should be. But with power comes responsibility. Airline staff should be trained to use their discretion, and to know the difference between...
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