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Developing leadership practice in voluntary organisations
Money & Business

Developing leadership practice in voluntary organisations

...becomes increasingly difficult to distinguish one from the other. Watch the following video, where OU academic Caroline Clarke addresses the issue of narcissism in relation to leadership. CAROLINE CLARKE: The word leadership has become a bit of a catch-all. It can mean everything and nothing. And we like to invest in individuals as being heroic. So if you think about some...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Explore the baking and culture of Europe: France
Languages

Explore the baking and culture of Europe: France

...ou même encore chaude, et c’est pour cette raison que les Français vont à la boulangerie de leur quartier au moins une fois par jour. La baguette est toujours le type de pain le plus répandu, mais il en existe beaucoup d’autres. Il y a de nombreuses sortes de pains blancs. On les distingue grâce à leur taille, de la ficelle à la flûte, et grâce à leur forme,...
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Introduction to Spanish
Languages

Introduction to Spanish

...OU registered students. You can however access the Collins dictionary. Paso A Watch Video 2 and decide whether the following statements are true or false. Dictionaries are very useful tools for language learners. In this short screencast you will be acquainted with some of the information you can find in a dictionary. There are 2 main types of dictionaries – monolingual...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Criminology beyond crime
Society, Politics & Law

Criminology beyond crime

...become central to the critical enterprise. To this end, notions of a ‘supranational criminology’ (Smeulers and Haveman, 2008) have been developed. This area of critical criminology is concerned with the study of international crimes, harms, and violations that have an impact on a mass or global scale – for example, war crimes, torture, genocide, crimes against...
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Level 3: Advanced 3 hrs
Are there other responses to urban terror than just more bollards?
Society, Politics & Law

Are there other responses to urban terror than just more bollards?

...becomes part of the design process. In the aftermath of attacks, or amid fear of imminent attack, obtrusive security features – notably temporary concrete or steel blocks – are commonly “thrown” around key sites to stop vehicle attacks. These are not necessarily aesthetically pleasing. In the last decade the initial swathe of security bollards and defensive...
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Article 5 mins
This is not a city: Milton Keynes
Society, Politics & Law

This is not a city: Milton Keynes

...become key nodes in globalised systems of economic production, the distribution of goods, and sites of the exploitation of workers, whose labour produces that wealth. Walking around many of the UK’s cities today can remind one of the wealth generated during the industrial age, with elegant Victorian buildings, statues and squares, although the labourers of this period...
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Article 15 mins
In deep, stormy waters: Scotland, the UK and the politics of fishing
Nature & Environment

In deep, stormy waters: Scotland, the UK and the politics of fishing

...become an EU member re-joining the EUs Common Fisheries Policy?...The UK’s fishing industry has been long in decline, certainly a process predating EU membership. The outcome of the Cod Wars was a deal with Iceland that hit some of the major fishing communities hard. While the industry is now only a shadow of its former self, nonetheless in an island country such as the...
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Article 5 mins
How emoji are changing the shape of everyday English
Languages

How emoji are changing the shape of everyday English

...become so ubiquitous that ‘facepalm’ itself is starting to be used as a form of reflexive interjection in writing. So how about emoji? Is the same thing likely to happen with them? At the moment the evidence is slight. But there are indications that it’s beginning, at least in certain contexts. Unlike alphabetic writing systems, which allow an infinite number of...
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Article 20 mins