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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
Buddhist Economics
Society, Politics & Law

Buddhist Economics

...public limited company’, and whose market leadership adds to the pressure to reform the shareholder model. How would conventional accounting change? Dr Mike Lucas assesses the changes to conventional accounting methods, and management teaching, that would be needed to establish a new business model based on Buddhist economics. Economics and accounting of the future?...