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Different types of business
Money & Business

Different types of business

...education. [Described image] Figure 2 A steelworks It is useful to distinguish these broad economic sectors as we can see that there will be important differences between a business operating in the primary sector and one that provides a service. Nonetheless, it would also seem obvious that there may be big differences between businesses within the same broad economic...
Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
Brexit: What’s this fine mess you’ve gotten us into? (Apologies to Laurel and Hardy)
Society, Politics & Law

Brexit: What’s this fine mess you’ve gotten us into? (Apologies to Laurel and Hardy)

...education and health. But the battle lines are becoming clear on the essentials outlined above. So this is apparently where we are now. The UK Conservative party is still apparently split down the middle on many of the issues concerning separation from the EU. At least it appears so from what we read about divisions within the Cabinet; at times these appear distinctly...
How can you turn desert into farmland?
Nature & Environment

How can you turn desert into farmland?

...education and funding is needed to really get “soils at the heart of environmental policy”. And within this policy scope, building resilience in healthy soils will be vitally important in order to safeguard the critical functions that soils provide. When soils aren’t well managed, as in Mesopotamia, the repercussions can be enormous. “Soils take thousands of years...
Influence of temperament
Education & Development

Influence of temperament

...educational and behavioural difficulties but only if they come from socially disadvantaged backgrounds (Quinton and Rutter, 1976). It has proved more difficult to establish whether temperament does influence susceptibility to adverse experiences. Dunn and Kendrick (1982) have shown that an older child’s response to the arrival of a new sibling is systematically related...
The Life of Saint Patrick
History & The Arts

The Life of Saint Patrick

...educated many children whom he trained up to serve at the altar. He always gave till he had no more to bestow, and rejoiced to see himself poor, with Jesus Christ, knowing poverty and afflictions to be more profitable to him than riches and pleasures. The happy success of his labours cost him many persecutions." Saint Patrick's trials and tribulations in Ireland "A...
Little white lies: Whiteness, reflexivity, race and criminology
Education & Development

Little white lies: Whiteness, reflexivity, race and criminology

...education service in the early 1950s. My birth certificate from Ghana’s capital, Accra, has the words ‘Gold Coast’ crossed out in several places and Ghana handwritten in ink above it. Follow the money, as the saying goes. That golden thread of whiteness breaks, unexpectedly, when I complete the ‘place of birth’ part of the application form to register for a PhD...
Getting started with SPSS
Society, Politics & Law

Getting started with SPSS

...Education Academy and the content is released under the Creative Commons Licence. This OpenLearn course was updated with the help of Gini Harrison in July 2019. Course image: Thomas Galvez in Flickr made available under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.0 Licence . Except for third party materials and otherwise stated (see terms and conditions), this content is...
Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
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Languages

Get ready for beginners’ French

...educational well-being of the community. The courses also provide another way of helping you to progress from informal to formal learning. To complete a course you need to be able to find about 24 hours of study time, over a period of about 8 weeks. However, it is possible to study them at any time, and at a pace to suit you. Badged courses are all available on The Open...
Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs