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Human Resource Management and EDI
Money & Business

Human Resource Management and EDI

...OU’s MSc in Human Resource Management....Human Resource Management and EDI: Introduction - Human Resource Management and EDI is a free course provided by OpenLearn, based on adapted material from B810. This course will highlight why equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) are key for the practice of Human Resource Management (HRM) today. This includes the promotion of...
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Level 3: Advanced 2 hrs
Stephen Hawking: The tributes
Science, Maths & Technology

Stephen Hawking: The tributes

...OU/BBC co-production 'The Search for a New Earth' - another great example of his ability to communicate science to the masses and make it accessible. See the box below: Hawking was born on January 8, 1942, in Oxford, England. In 1963 he was diagnosed with ALS, a form of Motor Neurone Disease, and later confined to a wheelchair and forced to communicate via a computerised...
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The research and modelling of COVID-19
Science, Maths & Technology

The research and modelling of COVID-19

...becomes the initial infected network of the state. The complete initial network is constructed by adding additional susceptible nodes so that the number of nodes matches the population of the state. We then simulate the growth of this network under specified parameters. We also look at the healthcare capacity in India across different states and analyse the overall...
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What is openwashing - and how can you avoid it?
Digital & Computing

What is openwashing - and how can you avoid it?

...becomes more prevalent. As far as I know, Michelle Thorn, Mozilla’s Director of the Webmaker Program, was the first to define openwashing in 2009: “Openwashing: to spin a product or company as open, although it is not. Derived from “greenwashing," which should not be confused with "The Open Source Washing Machine." Also in 2009, Phil Marsosudiro, coined a similar...
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Article 5 mins
Housing beyond borders
Society, Politics & Law

Housing beyond borders

...become acutely contentious is housing. Transformed over recent decades through the construction of new luxury apartments and speculative redevelopment, there are growing concerns over the cost and stability of housing arrangements within cities and regions across Britain and beyond. An important part of this story relates to the transformation of homes into assets as new...
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Article 5 mins
Impossible Peace 2: Introduction
OpenLearn Ireland

Impossible Peace 2: Introduction

...becomes a possibility and then a reality. As I write, the World headlines are the stories of the Hell of Gaza, and the constant references to war involving Russia and Ukraine, Israel and Iran and the bombs of the US; stories also of ceasefires and broken ceasefires, of power and ego masquerading as leadership. Within these pages, you will read the words of a Palestinian...
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Article 5 mins
Robert Burns: a man of his times for today
History & The Arts

Robert Burns: a man of his times for today

...become an informal race between Scotland’s urban elites to have one. Overseas, particularly in Canada, the United States, Australia and New Zealand, Scottish settlers and their descendants followed suit. Burnomania The explanation for what one of Burns’ disapproving critics – and there were several, mainly representatives of the Kirk – termed Burnomania, is far...
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‘It’s Just Banter’: Women and Sexual Harassment in the Hospitality Industry
Society, Politics & Law

‘It’s Just Banter’: Women and Sexual Harassment in the Hospitality Industry

...student, Suzi Collins worked in a bar in Fife. Here she recounts her personal experience with sexual harrassment in the workplace...Find out more about The Open University's History and Social Sciences qualifications. Setting the Scene Two old guys at the bar where I was working: “Whaur’s ma New Year’s kiss then?” “Aye, and whaur’s mine?” “No thank you,”...
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Article 10 mins