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Exploring immortality
History & The Arts

Exploring immortality

...Studies and Philosophy investigate immortality...Research into physical immortality is big business. Just try searching Google for the CEO of Apple Computers and biotech firm Genentech founded Calico (est. 2013). It's a company backed by a billion dollars of investment which aims to ‘devise interventions that slow aging and counteract age‑related diseases.’ The...
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Art and visual culture: medieval to modern
History & The Arts

Art and visual culture: medieval to modern

...skill, and the liberal arts pertaining to the leisured classes and studied for their own sake. Self-evidently, the distinction is a false one in that all artists needed to earn a living. To claim that painting was a liberal art narrowed the social gap between artist and patron, however, and put painting on a par with educated activities to do with reading and writing,...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Budget 2017: Instant reactions
Money & Business

Budget 2017: Instant reactions

...skills infrastructure. New funding will be made available to support the creation of 110 free schools. These will, controversially, include new selective schools and specialist maths schools. While it is widely recognised that students attending selective schools can benefit from the experience, average performance across all students in areas served by such schools is...
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Article 5 mins
Section 6: Introduction to Learning Resources on Red Clydeside
Society, Politics & Law

Section 6: Introduction to Learning Resources on Red Clydeside

...study, embracing recent and mostly new research, places Red Clydeside in context and gives perspective to the role of the First World War as an incubator of heightened class consciousness and militancy in the region. The extent to which the years 1910-1914 marked a watershed in industrial relations has been widely debated in the British literature, but hitherto there has...
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Article 30 mins
Connecting unseen dots
Education & Development

Connecting unseen dots

...Skills, and specifically the role of competencies such as critical thinking, creativity, communication and collaboration, which are all underpinned by a more democratic view of who and how we generate new thinking (including children and young people). In response to the final question, Mathew shared some initial findings from his research showing that what young people...
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Video 25 mins
PhotoFit Me
Health, Sports & Psychology

PhotoFit Me

...skills now by clicking on the image above... Instructions - For the best results, use a modern web browser. Upgrade to the latest version of Internet Explorer or try a free alternative like Google Chrome, Firefox or Safari. The science behind PhotoFit Me Imagine the scene: you witnessed a man stealing a mobile phone and are now being interviewed by the police who ask you...
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Activity 5 mins
Viento en popa: upper intermediate Spanish
Languages

Viento en popa: upper intermediate Spanish

...skills developed in previous intermediate and introductory courses and includes a compulsory residential school in Spain. The themes of the course range from talking about the past to urbanism. The course is lively and varied, with a wide range of authentic mixed-media material from Spain and Latin America, structured to allow students to evaluate progress, build...
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Video 26 mins
Beginners’ Italian: food and drink
Languages

Beginners’ Italian: food and drink

...skills. This OpenLearn course provides a taster for studying other Italian short courses at The Open University’s Open Centre for Languages and Cultures. Some activities in this course use an audio-recording tool. This may not work correctly in the Safari browser on Apple Mac computers. Please try another browser such as Google Chrome to run this...Beginners’ Italian:...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs