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Including diversity in race, ethnicity and culture in your teaching
Education & Development

Including diversity in race, ethnicity and culture in your teaching

...public places like schools. Religion in multicultural Britain is a community matter and should be respected by public institutions like schools. The education policy in each of the four UK nations is different, since education is a devolved political matter. There are many interesting points of comparison between them, as well as with other nation states’ approaches, on...
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Article 10 mins
The greatest composers you’ve never heard of
History & The Arts

The greatest composers you’ve never heard of

...public life. Many women composers – including Louise Farrenc, Fanny Hensel, Emilie Meyer, Clara Schumann, Augusta Holmès, Cécile Chaminade, Ethel Smyth, Amy Beach and Lili Boulanger – actually flourished as composers during the nineteenth century and wrote many works alongside their male peers, although their works were not included within the classical music canon....
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Judicial decision making
Society, Politics & Law

Judicial decision making

...public interest immunity’ is a process recognised by common law rules where the government can apply to a court to exclude evidence that would otherwise be used because the government believes it would harm the public interest. The evidence might put an informer’s life at risk if disclosed, or it might harm national security. Just before World War II, an experimental...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Harry Marshall - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Harry Marshall - Earth in Vision

...public archives, as well as the conservation of king cobras, environmental filmmakers around the world, and the box office success of River Monsters. ...Harry Marshall Harry is the Creative Director of Icon Films – a long established award-winning, UK independent production company. Over the last 25 years Icon Films has produced over 290 hours of high-end factual...
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Video 30 mins
Global challenges in practice: designing a development intervention
Money & Business

Global challenges in practice: designing a development intervention

...health post in a rural area, initiating a community saving scheme, or conducting an awareness raising campaign around a specific issue in the local area. You may have noticed intervention and project are used interchangeably in this course. But what is a project? A project is a time-bound intervention, usually lasting between one and five years. It’ll be based on some...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Piracy, anonymity & parametric politics: An interview with Ned Rossiter and Soenke Zehle
History & The Arts

Piracy, anonymity & parametric politics: An interview with Ned Rossiter and Soenke Zehle

...public interest. More often than not, repression of what is deemed private is much stronger than what is said to be of public significance, making this repression less contested as well. Similarly, hackers’ targeting of information and communication infrastructure is depoliticized, or delegitimized under criminal conspiracy acts. Instead you claim that contemporary...
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Article 15 mins
52 things you never knew about OpenLearn
Miscellaneous

52 things you never knew about OpenLearn

...health (see below). Transcripts SYNDICATION AND OTHER SITES We have our sister site OpenLearn Create, which is more international with 48% of users from India and another large chunk from Tanzania and Nigeria. Our YouTube channel has a whopping 264,000 subscribers – the most on any UK university YouTube account. We have a Facebook and Twitter account with over 22K...
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Article 5 mins
53 things you never knew about OpenLearn
Education & Development

53 things you never knew about OpenLearn

...health (see below). Transcripts SYNDICATION AND OTHER SITES We have our sister site OpenLearn Create, which is more international with 48% of users from India and another large chunk from Tanzania and Nigeria. Our YouTube channel has a whopping 291,000 subscribers – the most on any UK university YouTube account. We have a Facebook and Twitter account with over 25K...
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Article 20 mins