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Does prison work?
Society, Politics & Law

Does prison work?

...care to the individual. That's not to say that the programmes within prisons don't in fact help individuals, and our experience here is that many men derive considerable benefit from what we're able to provide at Grenden, but for the vast majority of people coming into prisons there isn't that opportunity and there isn't that experience for them and therefore the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 1 hr
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Money & Business

Working in teams

...adult career guidance for over 20 years, including for the Careers Service at The Open University. LYNNE: If you've had recent experience of looking for work, then you're likely to be fairly familiar with the expectation from employers that you can evidence your ability to work in a team. You may have even been asked a competency question, beginning with the dreaded can...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
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Education & Development

Teaching and learning tricky topics

...careful not to give the student your view on the topic as this can lead towards a teaching session and will not elicit the students’ own ideas on the topic. This may be the hardest thing to remember as a teacher but the teaching must be left to a later point in time so that the students feel free to give you their ‘real’ understanding (or misunderstanding). However,...
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Level 2: Intermediate 24 hrs
Critical criminology and the social sciences
Society, Politics & Law

Critical criminology and the social sciences

...adults in the household, not children, who are responsible for food preparation, even when the children are older. And often, it is women who are responsible more than men. In turn, those roles imply particular social relations- patterned ways in which one group of people relate to another, often hierarchically. The social roles of food preparation imply a relation in...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Developing good academic practice
Education & Development

Developing good academic practice

...Care 4.2.3 Maths, Computing and Technology 4.2.4 Science 4.2.5 Social Sciences Feel free to focus only the subject areas you are interested in studying, or are studying...Developing good academic practice: 4.2.1 Arts - You have been advised that there is no need to provide a reference for a piece of factual information that is deemed to be common knowledge. However,...
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Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs
Studying mammals: Return to the water
Nature & Environment

Studying mammals: Return to the water

...adult seal and develops a thick layer of blubber. Question 1 Can you think of a likely explanation for this change? Answer As DA points out, blubber provides better insulation in the water (and the smoother coat of the adult improves its streamlining). A fur coat traps a layer of warm air next to the body and is a fairly good insulator in air and water, but it has its...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
National identity in Britain and Ireland, 1780–1840
History & The Arts

National identity in Britain and Ireland, 1780–1840

...adult males had the right to vote. Even then, there were several other obstacles to voting. For instance, the right to vote, or franchise, was linked to the value of property a person owned or rented. Even if a man was qualified to vote, many elections were not contested and, if they were, they were often subject to manipulation by landed interests. Meanwhile, Scotland...
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Level 2: Intermediate 4 hrs
David Allen - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

David Allen - Earth in Vision

...careful at the end of the day that we are filmmakers, we can’t be everything to all, we’re making films out there, and that, in some ways, feels tough enough. I can’t also be a multimedia generator, political-lobbyist-cum-conservation… So I think those spaces are also getting filled up by people who are experts in that genre. I think it’s probably more cross...
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