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Understanding your sector Badge icon
Money & Business

Understanding your sector

...et al., 2016). This feeling of not having the power or means to leave a job can have profound effects on a person’s perception of their own employability and their ability to change their situation or to move on. Starting with your current situation, and improving your understanding of this and the wider industry and sector, can help you to break out of this cycle and...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
What chemical compounds might be present in drinking water?
Science, Maths & Technology

What chemical compounds might be present in drinking water?

...adapted extract from the Open University course S215 Chemistry: essential concepts...What chemical compounds might be present in drinking water?: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: understand that in drinking water anions have a beneficial range of concentration above which they may have an adverse effect on either human health or the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Talk the talk
Education & Development

Talk the talk

...adapt their intended talk to an unexpectedly shorter or longer time frame. Others could find this unsettling. Nevertheless, it is not uncommon to omit some elements of what you planned to say, whether intentionally or not, and to insert new ones, such as examples, or perhaps a little humour. Relax It is normal to feel nervous at the beginning of a talk, but the ongoing...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
The moral equality of combatants
History & The Arts

The moral equality of combatants

...adapted extract from the Open University course A333 Key questions in philosophy...The moral equality of combatants: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: understand the Jus ad Bellum / Jus in Bello distinction and be able to understand why it might need to be qualified understand and take a view on the idea of the moral equality of...
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Level 3: Advanced 16 hrs
Rights and justice in international relations
Society, Politics & Law

Rights and justice in international relations

...adapted extract from the Open University course DU301 A world of whose making?...Rights and justice in international relations: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: understand the different interpretations of internationally recognised notions of rights and justice give examples of implementing justice in an international sphere...
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Level 3: Advanced 13 hrs
Social problems: Who makes them?
Society, Politics & Law

Social problems: Who makes them?

...et al. (eds) The State or the Market: Politics and Welfare in Contemporary Britain, second edition, London, Sage. Plummer, K. (1992) ‘Speaking its name: inventing a gay and lesbian studies’, in Plummer, K. (ed.) Modern Homosexualities, London, Routledge. Smart, C. (1995) Law, Crime and Sexuality, London, Sage. Wilson, G. (1981) Love and Instinct, London, Temple...
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Level 2: Intermediate 20 hrs
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Money & Business

Risk management

...adapted to fit the task. However, there is a set of commonly recognised process steps. In this case, and for the rest of this module, the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) 31000:2018 standard will be referred to. [Described image] Figure 1 ISO 31000 diagram The process is iterative and when performed properly has multiple feedback loops between the...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
The First World War: trauma and memory
History & The Arts

The First World War: trauma and memory

...adaptation, which premiered in Northampton in August 2014. In these novels, Barker depicted historical characters – including Sassoon, Owen, Graves and the physician W. H. R. Rivers – alongside a shell-shocked fictional protagonist, Billy Prior. Influenced by academic literature on war neurosis, Barker explored the links between masculinity, class and the treatment of...
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Level 1: Introductory 9 hrs