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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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,...
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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?...
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The Galapagos
Science, Maths & Technology

The Galapagos

...publication of his "On the origin of species", and the unspoilt islands still fascinate researchers. Some of the plants and animals that live here are found nowhere else on Earth. Today that biodiversity is under threat from an increasing population, tourism and invasive non-native species. The video tracks on this album retraces Darwin's first steps on the Galapagos...
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The Internet at 40
Science, Maths & Technology

The Internet at 40

...Public Understanding of Technology at The Open University and author of 'A brief history of the future - the origins of the internet'. He explores some of the key moments in the short but spectacular history of an extraordinary phenomenon, the people who made them happen, and some of the problems that have emerged. The album also features archive interviews with Tim...
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