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Introduction to cyber security: stay safe online Badge icon
Digital & Computing

Introduction to cyber security: stay safe online

...public about potential computer security risks. This one, released in March 2014, lists six vulnerabilities in this family of Siemens PLCs, which could allow attackers to interrupt or stop their operations. It also highlights that this family of PLCs are used in a range of critical sectors. This PLC isn't just vulnerable, it is also quite likely to be working in an...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Week 1 Civilisations: The debate
History & The Arts

Week 1 Civilisations: The debate

...public debate about the arts. Gill and I have also contributed by making a Civilisations poster, which you can order for free (and teachers and parents are encouraged to order one for classrooms!) Luckily we've also been able to use some of the footage shot for Civilisations on the third-level module which overlaps with it, A344, Art and its Global Histories. Students on...
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Activity 5 mins
Oxfam: Challenges for a complex charity
Money & Business

Oxfam: Challenges for a complex charity

...public company where he had also been Chair was a ‘doddle’ compared to chairing Oxfam. So what are some of the challenges of running a large charity like Oxfam? An important difference between a charity and a business is that whereas a business raises most of its money from its customers a charity has to fundraise from a different group of people to those the...
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Article 10 mins
About The Open Centre for Languages and Cultures
Languages

About The Open Centre for Languages and Cultures

...public awareness of the strategic importance of meaningful and effective communication between individuals and groups and are confident that the short courses offered by the centre will make a valuable and much-needed contribution to fostering creative curiosity and transformative understanding between people, both locally and globally. In fulfilling its mission, the...
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Video 5 mins
Using art and creative methods to interrogate identity, citizenship and migration
Society, Politics & Law

Using art and creative methods to interrogate identity, citizenship and migration

...public participation during the ‘Who Are We?’ event, and learn how their interactions may give us insights that challenge stereotypes and representations communicated in mainstream media. In addition, you will be able to explore an example of a collaboration between academics from Open University, Oxford University and the Migration Museum Project through an...
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Article 5 mins
Do we really want speed on our roads to be further reduced?
Society, Politics & Law

Do we really want speed on our roads to be further reduced?

...publicity on local radio and newspapers. Using borrowed equipment, speeds were monitored and 'alarming data' was uncovered, including a motorcycle travelling at 104mph though the 40 mph zone. A petition signer who is also a councillor has said that plans are being drafted to reduce speed limits quite significantly in order to 'make cutting the number of deaths and...
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Article 5 mins
Past-Time Lover: Albert Einstein
History & The Arts

Past-Time Lover: Albert Einstein

...public, she would not expect intimacy and she would halt talking and remove her presence if I so required. (Source: Einstein: His Life and Universe, by Walter Isaacson, via Listsofnote.com). Unfortunately, she deemed herself unable to adhere to my clear and concise recommendations and the marriage ended, but not before I began my relationship with my first cousin Elsa,...
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Article 5 mins
Care for the elderly
Money & Business

Care for the elderly

...public obligation to invest in and ensure the welfare of older populations. However, in the current climate of austerity this once sacred duty seems increasingly hard to guarantee. Added to this are emerging concerns of how we can support not just those who are retired but also those looking after them. This has presented new opportunities and challenges for age-old task...
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Article 5 mins