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Brexit's two tribes: can they be brought together?
Society, Politics & Law

Brexit's two tribes: can they be brought together?

...Education, the economy, welfare and were prepared to support Labour candidates. There is no evidence to support a view that the electorate would punish MPs in leave constituencies who voted to remain. A small number of seats were lost by remain MPs but it is not clear whether Brexit played a significant part in those seats or not. What we do know is that whilst the...
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Human Resource Management and EDI
Money & Business

Human Resource Management and EDI

...education level, mental health, etc. Some of these may be visible (ethnicity), others invisible (education) and many may be open to change (marital status); some refer to the characteristics of the individual (age), while some may be concerned with the beliefs, norms and values of a group (religion). (It may even be the case that a visible characteristic (for example,...
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Level 3: Advanced 2 hrs
10 years of The Bottom Line
Money & Business

10 years of The Bottom Line

...educate, to inform and to entertain. In Evan Davis, the BBC has found someone who can do all three with remarkable ease and wonderful effectiveness. The mission to education is what binds the OU and the BBC together, and it is also what links us with Evan Davis. Evan has been associated with a number of OU BBC productions in recent times. Currently, he is hosting another...
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Developing high trust work relationships
Money & Business

Developing high trust work relationships

...de Bunt: ‘… trust works as a lubricant in economic transactions by smoothing relations between actors and reducing transaction costs related to control’ (Bijlsma and van de Bunt, 2003, p. 639) The idea of ‘smoothing relations between actors’ deserves more attention here, as does the notion of ‘reducing transaction costs related to control’. Let’s take each...
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Level 2: Intermediate 2 hrs
Hybrid working: change management
Money & Business

Hybrid working: change management

...Educational Funding Council for Wales. [HEFCW logo]...Change management for hybrid working: Introduction - Your role within an organisation will influence how comfortable you are with change. If you are responsible for driving and delivering change initiatives, it can be easy to focus on the desired outcomes rather than the journey you need to take people on. The COVID-19...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Translation as a career
Languages

Translation as a career

...de Barcelona, Spain, has been conducting research for nearly two decades on the acquisition of translation competence, defined as ‘the underlying system of knowledge needed to translate’ (PACTE, 2003, p. 16). They started by describing the characteristics that define the professional translator and then developed a model for their acquisition. The aim was to...
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Level 3: Advanced 4 hrs
Speeches and speech-making
History & The Arts

Speeches and speech-making

...education in the Middle Ages, and it is still very much alive today in the public sphere. Speeches by figures such as politicians are usually carefully crafted affairs, designed to be spoken, but relying on a written script. Analysing the construction of a speech, and its manner of delivery, can give interesting insights into the techniques of rhetoric, but what matters...
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Level 1: Introductory 1 hr
Challenge: Make paper and ink
Science, Maths & Technology

Challenge: Make paper and ink

...Forest by Lynn Cherry, pub 2000 Voyager Books; ISBN: 0152026142 El Gran Capoquero: UN Cuento De LA Selva Amazonica by Lynn Cherry, translated by Alma Ada, 1994 Harcourt; ISBN: 0152323201 This page was updated in April 2017 to remove some dead links, include the video tutorials, and to redraft the text to make better sense outside of the context of the original programmes....
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