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Pluto comes into sharp focus – but it’s still not a planet
Science, Maths & Technology

Pluto comes into sharp focus – but it’s still not a planet

...University APL/SWRI Pluto was embraced as the solar system’s ninth planet upon discovery by Clyde Tombaugh in 1930. He’d been looking for a planet where faulty data suggested a planet-sized body was perturbing the orbit of Neptune. This, he felt, was it – and the world agreed. Pluto’s mass was at first thought to be roughly the same as the Earth’s, but by 1948...
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How large is the UK alternative finance sector?
Money & Business

How large is the UK alternative finance sector?

...University of Cambridge and UK innovation foundation Nesta, in partnership with KPMG and with the support of CME Group Foundation. It is the latest in an annual series of reports from the University of Cambridge Judge Business School and Nesta, which track the size and development of online alternative finance, such as P2P lending and crowdfunding, in the UK. Key findings...
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Introduction to Green Social Prescribing — Mental Health and the Workplace Environment
Health, Sports & Psychology

Introduction to Green Social Prescribing — Mental Health and the Workplace Environment

...University and a Chartered Educational Psychologist with a keen interest in exploring ways to support Mental Health and Wellbeing. She is also an OpenLearn Champion for the Open University in Wales and has co-created a badged online course (BOC) on OpenLearn ‘Supporting Children’s Mental Health and Wellbeing’. Mae'r erthygl yma hefyd ar gael yn Gymraeg. | This...
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Wheelchair basketball player Yasmin on coaching, classification and the cost of disability sport
Health, Sports & Psychology

Wheelchair basketball player Yasmin on coaching, classification and the cost of disability sport

...University. She’ll be tuning into the Tokyo Paralympics, but with mixed feelings, as she explains...“I’m mad about disability sport and love learning new things”, says Yasmin who’s just completed her first year of a Sports, Fitness and Coaching degree with the OU. Having left school after her GCSEs, she began a career working in design. Always a keen...
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Welcome to nowhere special
Languages

Welcome to nowhere special

...universities and similar institutional spaces that want to mark themselves as internationalized, diverse and inclusive. That all this indexing of cosmopolitanism is indeed “banal” and only runs skin deep is best exemplified by those multilingual “welcome” signs that get one or more of their versions wrong. And I don’t mean home-made signs in developing countries...
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Essay and report writing skills
Education & Development

Essay and report writing skills

...guide and will introduce you to the principles of good practice that can be applied to all writing. If you work on developing these, you will have strong basic (or ‘core’) skills to apply in any writing situation. For assistance with specific aspects of any course you are to study, always refer to any guidance notes or handbooks that have been provided. This course...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Becoming an ethical researcher Badge icon
Education & Development

Becoming an ethical researcher

...University digital badge. Badges are not accredited by The Open University but they're a great way to demonstrate your interest in the subject and commitment to your career, and to provide evidence of continuing professional development. Once you are signed in, you can manage your digital badges online from My OpenLearn. In addition, you can download and print your...
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Level 3: Advanced 18 hrs
Sharpening Your Critical Thinking
History & The Arts

Sharpening Your Critical Thinking

...Universe, whereas I think there isn’t. Or perhaps you think that Wellington is the capital of New Zealand, while I think it’s Auckland. It’s possible to disagree about almost anything. [Roger Federer serving during one of his matches at the 2012 London Olympics.] Roger Federer serving during one of his matches at the 2012 London Olympics. Most of the time, people...
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