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Pathways To Success in Higher Education
Education & Development

Pathways To Success in Higher Education

...OU in Wales by emailing them emailing them. How Do I Know Which Subject Pathway to Choose? You may not be sure of where your interests lie, or you may already have some ideas. For this reason a series of short 'tasters' in different subject areas are available below. You can dip into whichever ones interest you and then progress to other units in your chosen area of...
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Can landfills be used to improve biodiversity?
Nature & Environment

Can landfills be used to improve biodiversity?

...OU-BBC co-production Wild Isles have helped to raise awareness of the variety of species across the UK. With nature playing such a vital role, should more be done to safeguard it? Connections to landfills Each day through our consumption, we generate waste, but we rarely think about where this goes once it leaves us. In last few decades, the UK has focused on reducing the...
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The Bottom Line Expert Opinion: Customer Service
Money & Business

The Bottom Line Expert Opinion: Customer Service

...the goal, at least rhetorically, is to improve efficiency and individual care, in practice this can cause serious problems. Geoff Sharrock investigates this trend in his article “Students aren’t customers…or are they?” This article was written to accompany the Winter 2015-16 series of The Bottom Line. For more information on the series, visit the series page....
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Some thoughts on Brexit
Society, Politics & Law

Some thoughts on Brexit

...become increasingly poor and ineffective. When your average citizen perceives that such inequality is not unrelated to the distribution of political power in Westminster and Brussels the response is clear: a vote to leave the EU that has the added benefit of putting two-fingers up to the so-called Westminster elite. What happens next is anyone’s guess. All views...
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Alkali metals
Science, Maths & Technology

Alkali metals

...become more terrifying as we go down the group. Let's try Caesium, our 5th alkali metal. [Huge explosion] The science The alkali metals are the elements Lithium, Sodium, Potassium, Rubidium, Caesium and Francium. They are grouped together because they all behave similarly (except with different ferocity) and together form Group 1 of the Periodic Table. They are in fact...
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Phoenix on Mars!
Science, Maths & Technology

Phoenix on Mars!

...become concentrated as a residue on the surface. We have seen only a fraction of the full panorama as yet, and there may be surprises still to come. Fascinating as the surface images are (at least to me, although I see that today's Sun disagrees We went to Mars and all we got was this lousy photo.... ) the picture that really took my breath away was one sent back by Mars...
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Why do women need abortions?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Why do women need abortions?

...becoming a ‘physical or mental wreck’. This was overturned when the High Court in Belfast ruled Northern Ireland's abortion law in breach of the UK's human rights commitments. To highlight the 50th anniversary of the Act being passed, as well as women’s current experiences of abortion, we created a video collection based on an Open University research project on...
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Understanding Identity
Society, Politics & Law

Understanding Identity

...become a woman; if an organ fails, you can get a new one. But is it all for the greater good? There are people in today's society who wouldn't think twice about putting a patent on our biological and genetic heritage. The tracks on this album discuss issues such as identity, the relationship between the natural and the social sciences, and the colossal topic of ethnicity,...
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