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Future of Empowerment
Society, Politics & Law

Future of Empowerment

...free-market reality. These concerns were only exacerbated by the 2008 financial crisis and its now decade-long aftermath. The near global crash followed by a recovery that appeared to serve the few rather than the many, challenged sacred assumptions about the capitalist and increasingly even liberalist democracy. In its place has emerged an anti-establishment politics...
Advance your independent learning: the innovative and personalised module (YXM830)
Education & Development

Advance your independent learning: the innovative and personalised module (YXM830)

...courses or just one or two at the advanced level. Studying courses on OpenLearn indicates that you have experience of what it is like to undertake distance learning and study online. You might like to consider where to take this learning next…...Transcript Advance your independent learning (YXM830) is an innovative, personalised postgraduate module offers you the...
Why has Sweden tightened its borders?
Society, Politics & Law

Why has Sweden tightened its borders?

...course of 2015, it became increasingly difficult to find accommodation for the refugees. There were reports of deploying gymnasiums, churches and camps of tents. Local councils from across the country claim they are no longer able to bear the expense of the growing numbers of refugees. A practical choice? On a more positive note, the restrictive immigration politics have...
Why cancer cells go to sleep: the mystery of cancer dormancy
Science, Maths & Technology

Why cancer cells go to sleep: the mystery of cancer dormancy

...anti-inflammatory drugs could stop dormant cancer cells that generate metastasis from “waking up”. If clinical trials confirm these results, we will soon be able to offer the patients treatments that specifically target dormant cancer cells. This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article. Try a free health and social care course...
What is leading to a decline in trust in charities?
Money & Business

What is leading to a decline in trust in charities?

...course of their trusteeship. Carrying out these legal duties can in itself lead to negative publicity, such as when the Church of England chases people for payments for chancel repairs to local churches, which it has argued in the past must be done by trustees “to exercise their powers in its best interests”, or when charities such as the RSPCA are forced to defend...
Electric Dreams: Technology makeover
History & The Arts

Electric Dreams: Technology makeover

Let our interactive take you on an electric trip down memory lane...Passionate about technology? The Open University has Engineering and Technology courses you might be interested in - try Engineering The Future, which takes you from design concepts through to manufacture, or the online course Design Thinking: Creativity for the 21st Century.
Postgraduate study: Education, Childhood & Youth
Education & Development

Postgraduate study: Education, Childhood & Youth

...courses to help with the skills needed for postgraduate online distance learning...[Illustration of people studying, teaching and reading, books and digitally on laptops and mobile] Perhaps you work with children and young people or are a teacher thinking about taking your learning to the next level? Or you might simply want to know more about research and how you can...
Why the bands played on: Live music in the shadow of the Paris attacks
History & The Arts

Why the bands played on: Live music in the shadow of the Paris attacks

...course, there’s still big money in music. Increasingly, though, it’s live revenues that count, especially for artists without a back catalogue of hits, trying to build a career. It’s difficult to feel sorry for stars jetting between stadiums. Restrictions won’t hurt them much. But putting a show on the road with a shoestring budget, on the other hand, is hard at...