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Introduction to UK immigration law and becoming an immigration adviser
Society, Politics & Law

Introduction to UK immigration law and becoming an immigration adviser

...Education. Her research interests include public engagement with law, and marginalised communities and their access to justice. Edwin Parks Edwin is a Senior Lecturer in Law at The Open University and has written a wide range of courses, including materials for OpenLearn, the LLB and Executive Education. He is an international practitioner and experienced OU tutor. Liz...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
Managing virtual project teams
Money & Business

Managing virtual project teams

...educational and professional qualifications and licences relevant experience communication and numeracy personal characteristics, e.g. physical characteristics if they are required for the job willingness to travel team-building or administrative skills. Job descriptions and person specifications can be used for job advertisements, interviews and any other recruitment and...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
Talk the talk
Education & Development

Talk the talk

...education, and there is lousy online distance education. What should our goal be as we all consider opening ourselves up in digital spaces? Quite simply, as it always should have been. It has to be about great teaching. But if those students have never known a world without digital being part of their life, then shame on us if we think we can sit still, put our head in...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Як почати навчання онлайн
Education & Development

Як почати навчання онлайн

...education’, The Encyclopaedia of Informal Education [Online]. Available at http://infed.org/ mobi/ what-is-informal-education/ (Accessed 26 November 2015). Office for National Statistics (2015) Internet Users [Online]. Available at http://www.ons.gov.uk/ ons/ rel/ rdit2/ internet-users/ 2015/ index.html (Accessed 3 December 2015). The Open University (2015) ‘What are...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Social problems: Who makes them?
Society, Politics & Law

Social problems: Who makes them?

...educate ‘them’ to make better choices). Each of the statements above could be assessed in this way, exploring the assumptions about society, behaviour and poverty that underpin them. The same approach could be applied to statements about other social problems. Activity 3 If we were to consider discussions which focus on lone-parent families as a social problem, we...
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Level 2: Intermediate 20 hrs
Assessing risk in engineering, work and life
Science, Maths & Technology

Assessing risk in engineering, work and life

...de minimis concept, which assumes that there is a level of risk that is so low it can be reasonably ignored. Its name is derived from the common law maxim de minimis non curat lex: ‘the law does not concern itself with trifles’. A one-in-a-million level of increased risk over a lifetime is often used as a reasonable criterion for separating high-risk problems (which...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Managing my money
Money & Business

Managing my money

...education, defence, the transport infrastructure and the police service. Money raised in taxes goes a substantial way towards paying for the physical and social framework within which citizens live and work. This money, raised and spent collectively, reduces the need for private expenditure that would otherwise be required for health, education and so on. State benefits...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
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Languages

How to learn a language

...education. Tita speaks Spanish, English, French and Italian. She is also currently learning German, and she has also already decided what three languages she’s going to learn next! You can find out more about her teaching and research on Tita’s OU Profile. [An image of Olly Richards] Olly Richards Olly Richards is a polyglot who speaks eight languages (English,...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs