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Using OpenLearn as an OU Student
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Using OpenLearn as an OU Student

...Succeeding in postgraduate study is the best course for you. Researching your next module A small portion (up to 5%) of almost every module offered by The Open University is repurposed and offered for free on OpenLearn. You can use these to research different subjects or help decide on future module choices by getting a flavour of what that module may be like. All of our...
Can quotas make gender equality happen in politics? Lessons from business
Society, Politics & Law

Can quotas make gender equality happen in politics? Lessons from business

...work environments is incredibly important for addressing gender inequalities. Academics working in Sweden, often put forward in media and popular culture as the place where gender equality is most advanced, tell us that simply “body counting” the number of women doesn’t mean that equality has been achieved. Cultural change takes a lot longer, if it can be achieved...
Hanukkah: a festival of light
History & The Arts

Hanukkah: a festival of light

...succeeded and set about restoring local life, albeit with at least tacit recognition that the new superpower would continue to dominate the region. During the conflict Jerusalem’s temple had been desecrated. So here’s why light and oil are central to Hanukkah: in restoring the temple to its religious function it was necessary to light a sacred lamp. However, only...
Remembering Ali: How do The Philippines remember The Thrilla In Manila?
Society, Politics & Law

Remembering Ali: How do The Philippines remember The Thrilla In Manila?

...succeeded in redirecting public attention from the alleged excesses committed by the military-backed government toward the boxing game. Facebook user Manny Payumo wrote how the ‘Thrilla in Manila’ led to fewer anti-government protests a week before the event: I was at the college of engineering during the Thrilla in Manila fight at Araneta Coliseum. The week into the...
Selling Empire: Posters
History & The Arts

Selling Empire: Posters

...work is sometimes described as having elements of Cubism and Futurism. [EMB poster Motor Manufacturing] 'Motor Manufacturing', by Clive Gardiner, from the 'Empire Buying Makes Busy Factories' series of posters; 60 x 40 ins, displayed September 1928; Waterlow and Sons Ltd; EMB ref C1; (TNA) CO956/258 Any attempt to claim that EMB posters adopt particular styles to...
The Life of Saint David
History & The Arts

The Life of Saint David

...work on the lives of the saints tells the story of Wales' patron saint...[St David] About the Year 544. ST. DAVID, in Welch Dewid, was son of Xantus, prince of Ceretica, now Cardiganshire. He was brought up in the service of God, and being ordained priest, retired into the Isle of Wight, and embraced an ascetic life, under the direction of Paulinus, a learned and holy...
Proper men, proper women: Gender roles in contemporary UK society
Health, Sports & Psychology

Proper men, proper women: Gender roles in contemporary UK society

...working life that result from her class or the career itself or her workplace. She's determined to succeed and she assumes that any failure to progress is her own fault, because she isn't working hard enough. This might sound like the beginning of a celebrity success story. In this case, however, Walkerdine suggests it's the story of someone who blames herself when the...
The Lovable Bra Occupation, Cumbernauld, 1982
Society, Politics & Law

The Lovable Bra Occupation, Cumbernauld, 1982

...preventing closure, and the women returned to their machines on 18 March 1982 to work for Modewear Ltd. The dispute is highly significant in our understandings of women’s opposition to factory closure in the period. Cumbernauld: the growth of a new town Cumbernauld was one of five new towns designated in post-Second World War Scotland to combat the overcrowding of people and industry in Glasgow, and to take some of the ......