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Microbes – friend or foe?
Nature & Environment

Microbes – friend or foe?

...works (shown schematically in Figure 5), it is first filtered to remove large objects (e.g. condoms, tampons and cigarette ends) which have got into the system. These usually go to a landfill site or incinerator. The remaining material is then allowed to ‘settle’so that much of the solid material drops to the bottom of a tank. This solid material is then removed and...
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Level 1: Introductory 2 hrs
Discovering disorder: young people and delinquency
Society, Politics & Law

Discovering disorder: young people and delinquency

...these different levels of analysing things. The following sections will focus on the work of psychologists who developed theories to try and understand why some people behave in deviant ways, and even commit crimes, as compared to those who do not. Sections 2.1 to 2.3 look at early research that focused specifically on the individual’s personality, without exploring other factors that may influence a person to behave in......
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Childhood in the digital age
Education & Development

Childhood in the digital age

...working tablets and so on like pass masters. I mean do they just pick up how to use things like that? LYDIA PLOWMAN Quite a few of the parents will tell us that that is the case, but in fact, because we do visits to home and we’re observing what’s going on rather than just asking questions down the phone line or something, we are able to see that children are...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Journeying through wellbeing: Exploring mental health and wellbeing
Health, Sports & Psychology

Journeying through wellbeing: Exploring mental health and wellbeing

...work productively and fruitfully and is able to make a contribution to her or his community. It is a state of complete physical, mental and social wellbeing and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity. While this definition has been praised, there has also been some criticism of the overly positive nature of the definition. For example, some academics suggest that...
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Article 10 mins
English: skills for learning Badge icon
Education & Development

English: skills for learning

...work through the course at your own pace, so if you have more time one week there is no problem with pushing on to complete another week's study. You can also take as long as you want to complete it. The Open University would really appreciate a few minutes of your time to tell us about yourself and your expectations for the course before you begin, in our optional...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Different types of business
Money & Business

Different types of business

...working for them are motivated, well qualified and work well together. In other ways, however, small businesses operate very differently from large businesses. Small businesses are often owned and managed by the same person. This ‘owner-manager’ may be the founder of the business, or sometimes a relative, perhaps a son or daughter of the founder. Owner-managers are...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
Explainer: how do you read an election poll?
Society, Politics & Law

Explainer: how do you read an election poll?

...work status (employed, unemployed, retired, and so on) and the region of the country where they live. Most of the polling organisations speak to their sample of electors either by telephone interviews or through websites. The margin of error There are several kinds of opinion poll results for an election. The commonest kind in the UK give the voting intentions for the...
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Article 10 mins
True stories of the 1975 EEC Referendum
Society, Politics & Law

True stories of the 1975 EEC Referendum

...working class should be opposed to the Common Market”. The EEC was “a capitalist institution, designed to strengthen the power of the ruling classes of the different countries within it”. The opposition was unequivocal: “No to the capitalists’ Common Market – on any terms.” In an explicit re-run of the point made in 1971, the IMG argued that “the job of...
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Video 2 hrs