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How to write a CV
Education & Development

How to write a CV

...systems, platforms) alongside the all-important ‘softer skills’ that all employers are looking for. Creative industries CV With the expansion of digital and creative industries over recent years, CV formats have become more imaginative in these sectors. A highly creative CV format can be suitable for some roles in creative and artistic sectors such as marketing,...
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What did it mean to be found guilty by joint enterprise?
Society, Politics & Law

What did it mean to be found guilty by joint enterprise?

...think the law needed changing. “From the cases I have seen and from the assurances I have received, I am satisfied that we are applying the doctrine correctly and that these cases are being properly brought before the courts,” Saunders told MPs. “The guidelines help prosecutors in their decision-making and should improve consistency as well…” Furthermore, Mike...
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Article 10 mins
Where a ban has been replaced by a bee
Languages

Where a ban has been replaced by a bee

...think it would be amazing, especially as we are going to become a majority minority country,” she says, referring to US Census Bureau projections that non-whites will outnumber whites in the next 30 years. Concurso Nacional de Deletreo en Español had 11 contestants in its first year. In the past it was hosted in Albuquerque, New Mexico. At the spelling bee this year,...
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Asa Briggs and new maps of learning
History & The Arts

Asa Briggs and new maps of learning

...think they had been asked very profoundly in England before, and I don't think all universities in England ask them now. But one of the advantages of being a new university, as the Open University itself realises of course, is that you are forced into asking questions, the answers to which people usually take for granted in existing institutions. INTERVIEWER: But the...
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Reimagining professional learning: conversations across perspectives
Education & Development

Reimagining professional learning: conversations across perspectives

...thinking about professional learning, it is easy to default to formal programmes and structured training, but this obscures what we know about how people actually learn in their professional lives. There can be tension between regulated continuing professional development (CPD) requirements and authentic learning in professions such as health, social work and education....
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Contemporary issues in managing
Money & Business

Contemporary issues in managing

...think critically and challenge ideas and received wisdom. ...This free online course, Contemporary issues in managing, introduces three contemporary approaches (managing through organisational culture, managing through internal marketing, and managing through collective leadership). These approaches require you to think critically and challenge ideas and received wisdom....
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Language and creativity
Languages

Language and creativity

...think are creative? Which ones are not? Is it easy to put them into these two categories? [Described image] Figure 1 Examples of creativity? Look over them again and think about what made you decide that some of them are creative and others are not. What aspects of the examples suggest creativity? Discussion Your answers may differ from these, but we thought that the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Economics and the 2008 crisis: a Keynesian view
Society, Politics & Law

Economics and the 2008 crisis: a Keynesian view

...thinking about the causes of crises and unemployment. Keynes's thinking on how to reduce these problems was very influential with economists and policy makers for several decades following the 1930s. The economic downturn that started in 2008 led to a widespread revival of interest as economic conditions seemed to resemble those seen in the 1930s. This OpenLearn course on...
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Level 2: Intermediate 28 hrs