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Learning our way to a better environment
Nature & Environment

Learning our way to a better environment

...managing our environment? This short video looks at developing a more sustainable relationship between humans and the environment...World Environment Day is celebrated on the 5th June each year. Around the world, events and stories are used to highlight the environmental threats and challenges communities face and to celebrate the ways in which they are adapting...
The solar system and the night sky
Education & Development

The solar system and the night sky

...Manager...Find out more about The Open University's Natural Sciences courses I’m the Curriculum Manager for YXM130 and my favourite characteristic about the module is that it provides you with the option to study what interests you. If I was to study this module, I would be interested in studying courses that would help to expand my knowledge of the solar system and the...
Urban trees - could towns and cities become forests?
Nature & Environment

Urban trees - could towns and cities become forests?

...manage trees in urban environments now and for the future...6000 years ago, most of Britain would have been covered in a mosaic of woodland and open heaths, bogs and grasslands. Today, although only about six percent of the land in Britain is urban, almost 85% of the population lives in towns and cities. The ancient woods that once covered much of Britain now make up a...
Studying Engineering
Science, Maths & Technology

Studying Engineering

...module T868: Environmental Monitoring and Protection, which discusses different environmental monitoring techniques for noise, water, air and wastes, and explores available mitigation methods. This module can be taken individually but it also forms part of our Postgraduate Diploma in Environmental Management, our MSc in Environmental Management and our MSc in Engineering....
Diabetes care
Health, Sports & Psychology

Diabetes care

...manage their own condition. This material forms part of The Open University course SK120 Diabetes care... Diabetes care A brief introduction to this album. Living with diabetes Professor David Matthews on the history of research into the treatment of diabetes and how patients can manage the condition by modifying their behaviour. Annual review What happens during an...
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Business Bursts: Marketing
Health, Sports & Psychology

Business Bursts: Marketing

...Management The most important thing in marketing of any sort is the actual product and the service that you’re marketing. Your marketing effort can help people know about that, they might not have known about it before, or it can help people to access it or it can help people to be able to afford it by setting the price right, but at the end of the day they’ve got to...
Oxfam: Challenges for a complex charity
Money & Business

Oxfam: Challenges for a complex charity

...manage. We ask some questions about the challenges it faces to remain successful in a competitive marketplace...[Oxfam at the UN Millennium Development Goals Summit] Oxfam at the UN Millennium Development Goals Summit Starting a new job is often daunting, but can you imagine what it must be like taking over at Oxfam? How do you manage an organisation with 5000 paid staff,...
Hybrid working and digital transformation toolkit
Money & Business

Hybrid working and digital transformation toolkit

...managing uncertainty and building resilience Hybrid employee experience and culture Collaborative communication and building trust Diversity and inclusion Physical and digital wellbeing Change management You'll also hear contributors from higher education institutions, public bodies, businesses, and other organisations share their journeys towards new ways of working,...