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Working with diversity in services for children and young people
Education & Development

Working with diversity in services for children and young people

...think around ten percent, or maybe just over ten percent, of the school age population is from a non-white, non-British background. So it's a significant proportion of young people who have a different ethnicity or a different religion, or a different nationality, a different language, a different home life, which makes it more difficult, and they face an extra challenge...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
Challenges in advanced management accounting
Money & Business

Challenges in advanced management accounting

...Think about the situation of new product development to identify the overlaps that may occur with other functional areas. Discussion A strategic focus on delivering value to the customer requires integrated ways of organising around the value chain. The specialist areas of production and product development, corporate management, human resources, procurement, finance, and...
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Level 3: Advanced 15 hrs
Living without oil
Science, Maths & Technology

Living without oil

...System of Units). Examples of SI units are the kilogram or tonne for mass and the litre for volume. This course uses SI units wherever possible, but on occasions it will be necessary (or just more convenient) to go along with the oil industry and quote values in barrels. In order to translate the units used in oil industry publications to those more commonly used in...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Coping on the Coast: moral economies and liminality at the heart of things that matter
Society, Politics & Law

Coping on the Coast: moral economies and liminality at the heart of things that matter

...think about settling elsewhere, even though island life held so many challenges and uncertainties, and for most, returning meant a lower standard of living. Through their talk about the changes and increasing difficulty of coastal life, but also through their deep loyalty to their home island, it seemed to me that the villagers invoked a distinctive moral economy. One in...
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Video 15 mins
Different types of business
Money & Business

Different types of business

...think about a number of different types of business because they have different characteristics and behave differently. This OpenLearn course is an adapted extract from the Open University course B100 An introduction to business and management...Different types of business: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: describe different types...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
A spiritual revolution? Wicca and religious change in the 1960s
History & The Arts

A spiritual revolution? Wicca and religious change in the 1960s

...think about religion and spirituality in your own context. The following activity will help you to understand how complex modern religious identities are, as well as clarify your own position – and maybe some preconceptions too! Most importantly, it will show you that ‘religion’ does not refer to one specific thing, but can indicate a range of different things,...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
Social care in the community
Health, Sports & Psychology

Social care in the community

...think. Angry about being ignored. It seems that no one in the family is happy, at least not at this point. This two minute insight into the family’s life demonstrates both the responsibility of caring and the negative effects it can have on people’s lives. Now do Task 2. Task 2 What is happening to Ann’s life? The next audio is in two parts. In the first, the family...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
Could Islamic law be the key to defeating ISIS?
Society, Politics & Law

Could Islamic law be the key to defeating ISIS?

...thinking. There was, of course, no “Gate of Ijtihad” to be closed, and nobody had the authority to close the gate even if one had existed. The metaphor, however, highlighted the contrast between the cultivation of diversity in the first three centuries of Sharia and the stalemate and rigidity of the study of Islamic law since then. The “silver lining” of ISIS is...
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Article 10 mins