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Julie Asumu: mother, grandmother, stalwart of Manchester’s Black community, activist and care giver
Education & Development

Julie Asumu: mother, grandmother, stalwart of Manchester’s Black community, activist and care giver

...education but remained at school an extra year to mature as a primary school teacher. I applied for a teaching job and was successful so, at the age of 13, I left my home to teach in a village about 7 miles away. This was to encourage and illustrate the importance of a western education for girls in particular and also the financial benefits of having a western education....
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Entrepreneurial impressions – reflection
Money & Business

Entrepreneurial impressions – reflection

...resources and qualifications by visiting The Open University – www.open.edu/ openlearn/ free-courses...Entrepreneurial impressions – reflection: Introduction - In this course, we take a closer look at the entrepreneurial individual. During the course, you will be examining recent research evidence on entrepreneurial personality and behaviour, and comparing it with the...
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Level 3: Advanced 7 hrs
How to use a musical score
History & The Arts

How to use a musical score

...Open University, explain about different types of music, how it is written down, and what that notation means to performers... What is a score? Open University lecturers Catherine Tackley and Naomi Barker outline how music is written down, what a musical score is and what it does. You will also learn how musicians use and interpret musical scores in their work. How do...
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Video 51 mins
Getting started with Spanish 1
Languages

Getting started with Spanish 1

...resources and qualifications by visiting The Open University – www.open.edu/ openlearn/ free-courses...Week 1: How to say hello and goodbye: Introduction - Spanish (castellano or español), in its various forms, is the official language in 23 countries, and is spoken in many more. It is the world’s second most spoken first language with millions of learners speaking...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Getting started with Italian 3
Languages

Getting started with Italian 3

...resources and qualifications by visiting The Open University – www.open.edu/ openlearn/ free-courses...Week 1: Talking about arrival and departure times: Introduction - [Described image] In Week 1 you are going to learn and practise how to make enquiries about travel times using the 12-hour and the 24-hour clock. This will involve using numbers as well as practising...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
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Society, Politics & Law

Working in the voluntary sector

...Open University and a significant figure in the voluntary sector. This free online course, Working in the voluntary sector, will introduce you to some of the main activities carried out by volunteers and staff, will give you some background on how different organisations work and will provide you with knowledge and skills you can apply to your own work or volunteering, as...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Money and Emotions
Money & Business

Money and Emotions

...Open University and other partners. The project is using leading edge physiological sensors and computer game technologies to explore the impact of emotions on financial decision-making and to develop new approaches to learning, which can support effective choices. In this podcast Professor Mark Fenton-O'Creevy of The Open University Business School looks at the work of...
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Audio 19 mins
Social science and participation
Society, Politics & Law

Social science and participation

...resources. You will see that both of these dimensions of participation are important in social scientific accounts of participation. Some participation involves deliberate decisions to act together with others, such as when people march in a demonstration, vote in an election or join a group formed to pursue a shared purpose, such as protecting the environment. Other...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs