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Succeed in the workplace Badge icon
Education & Development

Succeed in the workplace

...out if you are suited to the work and to the organisation, and you should ask questions to help you to work out if you think you would fit in well, too. After all, even if you are offered the job, you might decide not to accept it. Whatever you decide, making interviews productive is vital if you are to achieve your career aims. Watch Wendy introduce Week 7: Wendy...
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Young children, the outdoors and nature Badge icon
Education & Development

Young children, the outdoors and nature

...out their research into babies’ and toddlers’ engagement with the outdoors. Enrolling on the course will give you the opportunity to earn an Open 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...
EU Referendum - Sovereignty
Society, Politics & Law

EU Referendum - Sovereignty

...out that greater openness means more exposure to financial market contagion, especially from the Eurozone, and that the task of maintaining a dynamic, well-regulated UK financial sector may “become more challenging as the euro area integrates further.” So while its report emphasises the extent to which UK financial services currently build on their EU connections, it...
The making of Industrial Britain: A gradual revolution?
History & The Arts

The making of Industrial Britain: A gradual revolution?

...out” of fashion. One is the view that economic modernity emerged in a rush, in a sudden “Industrial Revolution”. Traditionally this is dated from the late eighteenth century, and focuses on the sudden rise of the cotton mills and the increasing use of steam power. The other view is its corrective, looking at ways in which change was more gradual, spanning centuries...
Jury Decision-Making: What’s the Story?
Society, Politics & Law

Jury Decision-Making: What’s the Story?

...out about The Open University's Law courses. Why would we need a theory to understand jury decision making? To answer this, it helps to think about why we might be interested in understanding juries in the first place. One plausible reason is that we might want to reassure ourselves that they are making reliable decisions. Or, to put it differently, to see where any...
What is the relationship between history and historical fiction?
History & The Arts

What is the relationship between history and historical fiction?

...out, which just makes it less believable. But I think John Mullan in How Novels Work makes a very interesting point about this which is that in a way if you do pile in the bibliographies the, you know, the historical notes, the further reading and… and all the rest of it, that’s sort of apologetic. You’re confessing to a sort of lesser status, you’re explaining...
Making a difference: Youth participation
Education & Development

Making a difference: Youth participation

...out resources to lots of different schools across the country about how they can help combat the sort of negative stigma around young people who maybe look different because of birth marks, or scarring, or some kind of condition which affects the way that they look. And that was something which we feel will really help those young people because it helps reduce bullying...
Arnold Circus, London: social housing for the 'deserving poor'
Society, Politics & Law

Arnold Circus, London: social housing for the 'deserving poor'

...out door to door surveys and one of the most comprehensive of these was that done by Charles booth. With his team of researchers, he visited every street in London, producing detailed notebooks, surveys and poverty maps. Booth's notebooks described the buildings and the inhabitants in great detail, often including moral comments about the workers and their living...