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Start writing fiction
History & The Arts

Start writing fiction

...2 If you identify as being from a Black background, you could be eligible to study our MA in Creative Writing for free: Open Futures – Creative Writing Scholarship. Tell us what you think! We’d love to hear from you to help us improve our free learning offering through OpenLearn by filling out this short survey...Start writing fiction: Learning outcomes - After...
Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Dawn Parsonage-Kent - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Dawn Parsonage-Kent - Earth in Vision

...2, but all sorts of BBC channels and UK TV channels. And then I was there for about 10 years and in that time I started specialising in the children’s channels, so CBBC and CBeebies. For a time I was the Creative Head of CBeebies for the BBC, well, it’s actually for Red Bee Media, so at that point our department at the BBC had been sold, gone private and became Red...
Note taking in relation to the Social Sciences
Society, Politics & Law

Note taking in relation to the Social Sciences

...2 (13 minutes 6 MB) John I think that is a very useful point to remember Gerry. Esther I think it might be useful just to try and think through an example of how one might go about note taking. Esther OK if I was studying chapter two in book one on disability and just starting the chapter, I would always start with the course guide because that would tell me what the...
Children’s rights
Society, Politics & Law

Children’s rights

...2 (8.5 minutes 4 MB) Mary Well I think one of the interesting things was that that issue was focused, well what we saw was it being played out in the playground. It would have been interesting to see how gender manifested itself within the classroom and whether, you know, given the point that you have raised Ann about boys doing less well apparently compared with girls in...
Level 2: Intermediate 1 hr
Social problems: Who makes them?
Society, Politics & Law

Social problems: Who makes them?

...2 Make your own list of ‘what everybody knows’ about poverty and then compare it with our ‘comment’. [Figure 2] Figure 2: Poverty in the UK today: a growing social problem, or no problem at all? Discussion Our list of ‘what everybody knows’ is as follows: There is no real poverty in Britain today. There are more people living in poverty now than in the 1970s....
Level 2: Intermediate 20 hrs
Dr Benny Peiser - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Dr Benny Peiser - Stories of Change

...2° target being reached in 20 years, what do you do to avoid that? RH: What do you do? BP: Well, the point is… the political reality of the world is that the governments are not doing anything really, genuinely about it and there are reasons for that. And people have been warning about the inability and the unwillingness of the international community to genuinely...
EU Referendum - Economy
Society, Politics & Law

EU Referendum - Economy

...2% inflation target and ensuring the health of financial firms under the Prudential Regulation Agency. But it’s also too old and wise an institution to take political sides in the Brexit debate. The assessment it published last October states clearly that EU membership has made the UK economy more open to trade, which helps it become more competitive and innovative. But...
Newry: Frontier town or border city?
Society, Politics & Law

Newry: Frontier town or border city?

...2% by 2008. The world-wide downturn has undoubtedly altered this picture in more recent times, but its impact on trade in the region has actually been quite beneficial. As the Republic of Ireland began to sink deeper into economic recession during 2008 and 2009, cross border trade with Newry grew substantially. A favourable currency exchange rate, coupled with VAT...