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52 things you never knew about OpenLearn
Miscellaneous

52 things you never knew about OpenLearn

...System in our The Magic of Meteorites hub. …And finally, for those of you with a dirty mind, we'll let you know our free course with the most hilarious title. Who says toilet humour isn’t funny?! May we introduce you to Analysing Skid Marks? Unfortunately this course was deleted on 11th January 2019 but the content still lives on in part (like one of Voldemort's...
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What You Need to Know About Psychometrics
Health, Sports & Psychology

What You Need to Know About Psychometrics

...system that assigns scores to test and other assessment outcomes; for example, how the candidate would fit with the team. By using multiple indicators, such as interviews, personality and ability tests, and assessment centres, selection processes create a composite picture of candidates. These can then be compared, so that the candidate with the highest overall...
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The Plessey Factory Occupation, Bathgate, 1982
Society, Politics & Law

The Plessey Factory Occupation, Bathgate, 1982

...system to end the dispute. In Scots Law, a company would require an interdict served to every member of an occupation to prevent the continuation of their ‘unlawful’ behaviour. The cumbersome nature of this process meant that it had not been used by any organisation to force an end to an occupation. However, in 1982 there were two cases of an interdict being sought...
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53 things you never knew about OpenLearn
Education & Development

53 things you never knew about OpenLearn

...System in our The Magic of Meteorites hub. In our FREE course 'Astronomy with an online telescope', you get to use The Open University’s own robotic telescope facility COAST sited on the island of Tenerife. How cool is that? …And finally, for those of you with a dirty mind, we'll let you know our free course with the most hilarious title. Who says toilet humour...
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The greatest composers you’ve never heard of
History & The Arts

The greatest composers you’ve never heard of

...system was permanently weakened. She was ill for almost the rest of her life, suffering from regular flare-ups of the chronic intestinal tuberculosis which ultimately led to her early death. Boulanger became the first woman to win France’s famous composition competition, the Prix de Rome (which women had only been allowed to enter since 1903), in 1913 for her cantata...
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Scoring the Shoreline
History & The Arts

Scoring the Shoreline

...system in danger of inundation, transformation and loss. It is a place of work, a giver and taker of lives and livelihoods. At the same time, it is a zone of leisure and pleasure, innocent pastimes, robust healthy exercise, over-indulgence and covert assignations. In each of these ways and more the sounds of the seaside are deeply engrained in our cultural consciousness....
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Hybrid working: change management
Money & Business

Hybrid working: change management

...systems and even charities need to innovate new products, services and processes to compete. To do so means that invariably they need to undergo almost continuous change. This need for change can come about, as Senior et al. (2020) point out, from any source and influence, be it socio-cultural, political-legal, technological or economic. To respond to that need can often...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Social problems: Who makes them?
Society, Politics & Law

Social problems: Who makes them?

...system of values, norms and ideas that prevented single motherhood. Something has changed to undermine that moral order (explanations of this may vary – we have become less religious; people are more concerned with individual freedom; there has been a rise in permissiveness; welfare systems have provided benefits to lone parents, making it easier to choose to be a lone...
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Level 2: Intermediate 20 hrs