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Introduction to Arabic
Education & Development

Introduction to Arabic

...history of the Arabic language...This free OpenLearn course is a two week pre-course for the Open University short course Introduction to Arabic Language and Culture by the Open Centre for Languages and Cultures. Completing this course will take you about four hours. This course focuses on the most basic steps in learning Arabic: you will learn the alphabet, vowels, and...
Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Beyond the Babble: A conversation about the art of listening
Society, Politics & Law

Beyond the Babble: A conversation about the art of listening

...history in the UK (from the 50s to now) and also what it means to be a Londoner and a Eastender as well as part of specific community within the EastEnd…You wouldn’t get that from the individual stories, you get that when they are all together. Giota: This is an interesting story about stories of identity and belonging; It’s the interwoven layers of the different...
Who belongs to Glasgow?
Society, Politics & Law

Who belongs to Glasgow?

...history has also been reflected in many of the images and representations of the city over the decades. Another image which developed during this period was that Glasgow was a very violent place. This is reflected in the novel No Mean City, written when the city was gripped by the inter-war slump and depression. This image and representation of Glasgow has dominated much...
Level 2: Intermediate 3 hrs
The UK deal with the EU explained: what it says and what it means
Society, Politics & Law

The UK deal with the EU explained: what it says and what it means

...family members of EU citizens who apply to come to the UK, and to limit the payment of child benefit to EU workers who have children in another member state. There will have to be three new EU laws, proposed after the referendum, to make all this happen. Will it go ahead? The European Commission has announced that it will make these three proposals, and the deal says that...
Displaced children of our time
Education & Development

Displaced children of our time

...family sit on the edge of a boat on the beach, smiling - having arrived on the Greek island of Kos. ] Refugees from Iraq arrive on the Greek island of Kos The shipwrecks and deaths in 2015 led to a brief shift in public opinion around migration in the UK and across Europe. British newspapers which are routinely hostile to immigration depicted the deaths at sea as a...
Read this before you fall for a personalised book
History & The Arts

Read this before you fall for a personalised book

...families – including pets – and claim to boost children’s self-esteem and transform the publishing industry. With a personalised version of Where's Wally, children search for their own faces. Instead of Cinderella’s castle, it is the child’s own castle. The global pandemic has seen the mushrooming of personalised books that help children cope with school...
From a distance
Society, Politics & Law

From a distance

...families fled their homelands, a mother of twin infants started her journey to seek a safer place. During the journey, a tragedy occurred. Behjat explores these events through a series of drawings in order to reflect on their meaning and make connections to a wider audience. From a Distance, was at the 5th floor of the Switch House at Tate Modern as Part of the Who Are...
Why school-based sex education isn’t inclusive enough
Health, Sports & Psychology

Why school-based sex education isn’t inclusive enough

...family forms and provide information on risk and protection that goes beyond a focus on opposite-sex sexual behaviour. -End of opinion piece- Why does it matter? The lack of relevant sex education in schools for LGBT youth means that these young people must rely on other sources of information, such as the internet or partners, for this, which can have implications for...