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Groups and teamwork
Science, Maths & Technology

Groups and teamwork

...technology and innovation policies, where scientific facts may be collated to support opposing arguments for new policy developments. In such situations, the facts themselves do not always point to an obvious policy or strategy for innovation, support and development: decisions are partially based on the opinions and the personal visions of those involved. When expertise...
Level 2: Intermediate 20 hrs
Wilberforce
History & The Arts

Wilberforce

...technologies, experienced particular hardship. There were also significant ideological and organisational rallying points for those discontented with the existing order. Thomas Paine’s Rights of Man (1791) advocated the foundation of society on an Enlightenment conception of ‘natural rights’ rather than on the basis of historical patterns and precedents. Paine...
Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
Child mental health: is it in crisis?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Child mental health: is it in crisis?

...education. You’re ruining your chances. You’re supposed to be choosing your exam subjects in a couple of weeks. LILY I’m doing the work online. JUNE It’s not the same as being in the class with your teachers. What about your friends? LILY They don’t care. I’ve said, I’m not going. DAVE Lil, your mum’s just trying to help. We’re worried. Look, when is...
Diagramming for development 2: exploring interrelationships
Digital & Computing

Diagramming for development 2: exploring interrelationships

...education and has also improved general health (the lack of water or use of polluted water can generate ‘water-related diseases’). The WWP therefore actively addresses the impoverishment of black South Africans, which is a serious issue. 14 million South Africans currently have no or inadequate water supplies. In 1997, unemployment stood at 37%, and 50% of the...
Everyday maths 2
Science, Maths & Technology

Everyday maths 2

...education. To complete this course you will need access to a calculator, a notepad and pen, and a protractor. Enrolling on this course will give you the opportunity to earn an Open University digital badge. The badge is a great way to demonstrate your interest in the subject. What you learn by completing the course will really help if you wish to enrol on a formal...
Free course 48 hrs
Veiling
History & The Arts

Veiling

...educated to the same degree as his sons, and this would require them to leave the home and participate in public. By veiling for a specific period of time, related to their daily routine and their life stage as unmarried women, my grandmother and her sisters were able to overturn social norms by attending college and to observe the sanctities of public space or private...
Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Introduction to Planetary Protection
Science, Maths & Technology

Introduction to Planetary Protection

...technologies have reduced in cost and there is increased participation from smaller, private sector organisations and nations with commercial interests in using the space environment. New sectors such as healthcare, urban development, energy and insurance are all now benefitting from increased access to the space environment and are even setting their sights on...
Nationalism, self-determination and secession
Society, Politics & Law

Nationalism, self-determination and secession

...education, language, culture, sport, travel and so on, and by so doing they establish and reinforce some ‘national’ attributes and discourage others. But extreme, simplistic and coercive peddling of dubious ‘national’ myths for cynical power purposes is common enough also. Hitler's Nazism and Mussolini's Fascism were primary twentieth-century examples, but there...