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Cost-of-living crisis, or just back-to-life blip?
Money & Business

Cost-of-living crisis, or just back-to-life blip?

...work incomes are sinking. But after successive stock-market and property booms that mainly benefited the generation now retired, tougher times may loom for those who can’t access the fast-growing Bank of Mum and Dad. Tax bills also inflating Having promised lower-paid workers a rise on its way to re-election in 2019, the government is trying to ensure their pay at least...
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Building the first Thames sewer system
Science, Maths & Technology

Building the first Thames sewer system

...Works to speed up the building process. This editorial from The Morning Chronicle of 20th July, 1859 explores why the fight against cholera had turned the river putrid, and called for faster action...[An 1855 Punch cartoon, in which Faraday hands a stinking Old Father Thames his card] Michael Faraday hands Father Thames a card during one of the 'great stinks' - a Punch...
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Learning, thinking and doing
Science, Maths & Technology

Learning, thinking and doing

...working. This course deals with the strategies for coping with the demands of learning, but does not cover the tactics required for successful learning. It does not cover specific study skills such as note taking, effective writing or preparing for assignments. If you believe that you need to learn, or brush up on, these types of skills then you are strongly advised to...
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Level 1: Introductory 16 hrs
EPQs: help and tips
Education & Development

EPQs: help and tips

...work independently on a topic that really interests you or that you think is important. It is equivalent to an A-level qualification. These articles are designed to help you if you are enrolled on an EPQ...Find out more about The Open University’s Open degree qualification. This series of articles includes help and tips from members of AstrobiologyOU, a research group...
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Entrepreneurial Lives
Money & Business

Entrepreneurial Lives

...work demands, running businesses from home, the role of friends and family members, lifestyle, resource acquisition, and the fascinating, messy realities of entrepreneurs are themes explored in this series by Dr. MariaLaura Di Domenico of The Open University... Invisible Boundaries: When Home is the Business MariaLaura examines the challenges of running a home-based...
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Audio 1 hr 17 mins
Assessment in secondary science
Education & Development

Assessment in secondary science

...worked for many years in science education both as a teacher in secondary schools and as a teacher/educator in university. Assessment is a challenging aspect of a science teacher’s work. Science is not simply a fixed collection of facts but a complex discipline. Consequently assessment in secondary science should not be concerned only with what facts students can...
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Level 3: Advanced 11 hrs
School business manager: Developing the role
Education & Development

School business manager: Developing the role

...work effectively to support school activities and stakeholders, and in particular how you can support and manage aspects of the change agenda in your school to improve teaching and learning outcomes...There is an ongoing revolution in the running of state schools and this is making the position of the school business manager both significant and necessary. Government...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Accessibility of eLearning
Education & Development

Accessibility of eLearning

...social circumstances can participate successfully. These are the ideas that we are talking about when we use the term ‘accessibility’. Experience has shown us that it is better to consider accessibility at the beginning as well as throughout a process. It is often much more difficult to incorporate accessibility after a complex product has been completed (often termed...
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Level 3: Advanced 15 hrs