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Rights and justice in international relations
Society, Politics & Law

Rights and justice in international relations

...education, and to participate freely in cultural life. Article 28 specifies a right to a social and international order in which these rights and freedoms can be fully realised, while Article 29 commands a duty on the part of the rights holder to the community in which the development of his [sic] personality is possible. (Source: United Nations, 1948) As you can see,...
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Level 3: Advanced 13 hrs
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Education & Development

Succeed with learning

...educational institutions such as schools, colleges and universities – where the main business is teaching and learning. People, usually with special qualifications, provide learning which often leads to assessments – such as exams – and in turn leads to certificates, degrees or qualifications. Informal learning is more difficult to define because it covers so many...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Introduction to operations management
Money & Business

Introduction to operations management

...technologies are used. It is common for new ideas to be generated outside of operations but it is the role of the operations manager to implement those ideas. Activity 1: Introduction to operations management Timing: Allow around 50 minutes for this activity Read ‘Introduction to operations management’ (Walley, 2017). This reading introduces the
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
What can Earth tell us about Mars?
Science, Maths & Technology

What can Earth tell us about Mars?

...Education)...Michael Macey is a post-doctoral researcher with the AstrobiologyOU research group at The Open University. His research explores the microbial communities that live in some of the most extreme environments on Earth; environments that Michael and his colleagues believe closely resemble early environments on Mars. Using microorganisms isolated from these...
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Article 10 mins
Discovering development management
Money & Business

Discovering development management

...education, environment) multiple levels (e.g. local, national, global; micro, meso, macro). Difference This quality is rooted in the reality that all of the interested parties come with their own specific identities, arising out of – and contributing to – their own specific histories (within broader histories involving different mixes of interested parties). These...
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Level 3: Advanced 3 hrs
Picturing the family
History & The Arts

Picturing the family

...technology but also European traditions of portraiture...Picturing the family: 3.1 Introducing ideology in portraiture - [Figure 9 A painting of a nobleman seated at a desk] Image 9 Photographer/Painter: French School. Subject: Portrait of a nobleman seated at a desk, c.1750. Portraiture emerged as the first major commercial application of photography because the camera...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Dutch painting of the Golden Age
History & The Arts

Dutch painting of the Golden Age

...technology and culture. Through its large naval fleet, the Dutch Republic dominated world trade and established extensive colonial holdings, which formed the basis of its great wealth and power. Two defining features served to distinguish the Dutch Republic from the predominantly Catholic and absolutist structures of neighbouring European powers. First, although a central...
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Level 2: Intermediate 4 hrs
How arguments are constructed and used in the Social Sciences
Society, Politics & Law

How arguments are constructed and used in the Social Sciences

...education, where there isn't a properly motivated workforce, you are clearly going to have a workforce there that can't compete properly, can't make the best use of the opportunities that exist in a developed country. And instead of course they have to compete directly by falling wages. Digby Anderson You were asked particularly about international comparisons. Are there...
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Level 2: Intermediate 1 hr