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Beginners’ French: A trip to Avignon
Languages

Beginners’ French: A trip to Avignon

...write out what you want to say. Préparez une présentation sur votre ville. Record your presentation. Try using as few notes as possible. This will make you sound more natural than if you are reading notes. Enregistrez votre présentation. Answer 1 What you answer will, of course, depend on where you live but this is a possible answer. J'habite à Crewe. C'est une petite...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Can rabies be eliminated from Asia by 2020?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Can rabies be eliminated from Asia by 2020?

...writing it has only launched a pilot project in the northern state of Haryana to advise on managing the problem nationwide. Meanwhile, the government leaves it to the local city authorities to carry out programmes for vaccinating stray dogs on the street. Most deal with the problem by hiring NGOs like CUPA. That leaves rural areas, where rabies strikes hardest, all but...
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Article 10 mins
Brexit's two tribes: can they be brought together?
Society, Politics & Law

Brexit's two tribes: can they be brought together?

...write something about Brexit for a little while, but confess I’ve found it incredibly difficult to do so. Part of this is my feeling that as somebody who voted to remain I don’t want to be a bad loser. On the other hand, as somebody who voted to remain I do want to be a bad loser. Like many on the remain side of the divide I have heard nothing to convince me that...
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Article 10 mins
Diary of a Mars operations day
Science, Maths & Technology

Diary of a Mars operations day

...writing my report. Part of my role is to document the discussions we had earlier and preserve for the future why we are investigating the targets that we have selected. Thus, I spend the next ten minutes thinking back to the discussions we had, and making notes of all the reasons why we have chosen the targets. Then there comes a fun part: naming our targets. For this, we...
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Article 15 mins
Women and Workplace Struggles: Scotland 1900-2022
Society, Politics & Law

Women and Workplace Struggles: Scotland 1900-2022

...write to us at: scotland-socsci@open.ac.uk We are particularly keen to hear from women workers, and from male trade unionists, who have been involved in struggles around issues such as pay and fairness at work, defending jobs as well as campaigns to defend or improve workplace conditions. We are also interested in disputes and strikes more generally from across all...
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Article 10 mins
Developing your skills as an HR professional
Money & Business

Developing your skills as an HR professional

...creative team spirit. This tension is particularly important in considering the development of groups and teams. A team will usually have been formed to undertake a specific task, but its success in this may depend on the interpersonal dynamics within the team. Therefore, the job of developing a team and managing its dynamics requires as much attention as managing the...
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Level 3: Advanced 9 hrs
Surfaces
Science, Maths & Technology

Surfaces

...write down the boundary number β. [Figure 24] Figure 24 Answer (a) β = 1; (b) β = 4; (c) β = 1 To find the boundary numbers of paper surfaces, it is convenient to use coloured pens to trace around the boundary. Doing this, we find that the two boundary numbers of the surfaces in Figure 22 are β = 4 and β = 3, as shown in Figure 25. [Figure 25] Figure 25 Problem 8...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
David Hume
History & The Arts

David Hume

...write concerning the death of our late friend, Mr Hume, brought upon me ten times more abuse than the very violent attack I had made upon the whole commercial system of Great Britain [i.e. Smith's The Wealth of Nations, 1776, a groundbreaking work in economics]. (Quoted in Scott, 1937, p. 283)...David Hume: 2.1 Working through the section - This section examines Hume's...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs