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Identity In Question
Health, Sports & Psychology

Identity In Question

...Accounts Combining an account of the unconscious with a Foucaldian account of discursive practices. Kleinian and Object Relations Exploring the central concepts of the Kleinian and object relations tradition, and their use in clinical practice. The Inner World Two clinical workers offer personal views of their understanding of the 'Inner World' within the context of...
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Audio 54 mins
Buddhist Economics
Society, Politics & Law

Buddhist Economics

...accounting and finance has forced him to a fundamental reappraisal of the idea that businesses’ objective is to maximise shareholder wealth. The case for shareholder wealth Alan Shipman of The Open University Economics Department recalls the origins and optimistic expectations of the shareholder value ‘revolution’, inspired by economic ideas of profit-maximisation...
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Audio 44 mins
Contemporary Wales
Society, Politics & Law

Contemporary Wales

...account of contemporary Wales. It introduces key aspects of the economy, society, politics and culture of Wales, providing a wealth of up-to-date evidence that is organised around core social science concepts and theories, to help you make sense of a changing nation...This free course provides an accessible and lively social science account of contemporary Wales. It...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Welcome to the OpenLearn schools hub
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Welcome to the OpenLearn schools hub

...account. However, to have your learning recognised (so that you earn a certificate or a digital badge on an OpenLearn course) you must create an account, which will provide any learner with an OpenLearn profile. This profile can be made public or private and records your learning progress and achievements. Learning carried out on OpenLearn won’t count towards any formal...
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Article 15 mins
HR at the heart of the productivity shift
Money & Business

HR at the heart of the productivity shift

...accounting-for-ourselves productivity culture, because rather than the organisation confronting unfeasible objectives or serious structural problems, the workforce take the full brunt of responsibility for how they ‘manage’ or ‘mismanage’ their own productivity. The employee is nearly always complicit; striving to be more, do more, papering over the cracks of...
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Article 5 mins
What's the problem with the government's plans for our schools?
Education & Development

What's the problem with the government's plans for our schools?

...accountability in education, particularly in light of proposals to expand the academies programme contained in the Education and Adoption bill making its way through parliament. Combined with reports that over 500,000 primary school children are now being taught in super-size classes and that we are facing a chronic shortage of teachers, the whole area of the...
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Article 5 mins
How can Facebook decide who you really are?
Science, Maths & Technology

How can Facebook decide who you really are?

...account suspended. Indeed, Facebook requires people to display their “real” names on their profiles. The unusualness of Sands’ first name, especially in combination with his last, seemed to have sent Facebook's name verification robots the wrong signal, and suddenly he had seven days to submit some form of state-issued ID or lose access to his account. After a few...
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Article 5 mins
Get in touch
Education & Development

Get in touch

...account. However, to have your learning recognised (so that you earn a certificate or a digital badge on an OpenLearn course) you must create an account, which will provide any learner with an OpenLearn profile. This profile can be made public or private and records your learning progress and achievements. There are no forums on OpenLearn courses but all learners with an...
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Article 5 mins