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World Diabetes Day 2015
Health, Sports & Psychology

World Diabetes Day 2015

...awareness amidst concern over an escalating diabetes epidemic. Find out more about diabetes care here...Learn more about diabetes care The following video tracks introduce various aspects of a patient’s diabetes annual check-up. This material forms part of the Open University course Diabetes care. Listen to this podcast on type 1 diabetes Try a free diabetes course...
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Business development skills for apprentices
Education & Development

Business development skills for apprentices

...'hard' skills (such as project management or IT applications), The Open University is here to help with our collection of free courses...[Business development skills for apprentices] Try our FREE courses in an array of subjects to support you. IT training Time and priority management Email etiquette Presentation skills Introduction to project management Business...
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PodMag September 2016
Society, Politics & Law

PodMag September 2016

...Open University...This edition of the PodMag focuses on starting to study, either for the first time or beginning a new module. We hear from Georgina Blakeley about her top tips for studying, Alison Green talks about the merger between Arts and Social Sciences, and Nicky Harlow talks about how essays are marked, and what advice she has for students as a writer. Select...
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Audio 20 mins
Quiz: Can you identify food under an electron microscope?
Science, Maths & Technology

Quiz: Can you identify food under an electron microscope?

...Open University's Health and Wellbeing courses and qualifications. Start the quiz now. [Screenshot of the launch image from the interactive.] Instructions For best results, use a modern web browser. Upgrade to the latest version of Internet Explorer or try a free alternative like Google Chrome, Firefox or Safari. If you are having problems viewing the quiz, changing...
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You are here
Science, Maths & Technology

You are here

...find out more about the Milky Way, the 30 or so galaxies that make up our local group and much more...Find out more You might be closer to a science degree than you think: find out if you're ready to study science with The Open University Discover more about Stargazing LIVE which returns to our screens to take us on a brand new journey of discovery through the night...
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Activity 5 mins
Listening for form in popular music
History & The Arts

Listening for form in popular music

...Open University course A234 Understanding music....Listening for form in popular music: Introduction - This free course, Listening for form in popular music, explores form, or how music is organised in time. You will study the form of several popular songs, including ‘Be My Baby’, ‘Suspicious Minds’, ‘Midnight Special’ and ‘It’s Only a Paper Moon’. You...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
What makes people happy at work?
Money & Business

What makes people happy at work?

...educated, possibly part-time or self-employed, probably working in a small work place with just ten or twenty employees." Worker happiness is not an add-on For worker happiness to come about, it needs to be integrated into an organisation's working practices and into what economists call the work contract between capital and labour. Angela Ishmael, of The Work Foundation:...
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Article 10 mins
How gender equality can help fix the construction industry
Society, Politics & Law

How gender equality can help fix the construction industry

...Education figures suggests an alternative reason. Just five years after graduation, long before starting a family, women engineers and architects are already being paid less than their male counterparts. The lack of career progression that this suggests increases with age, with the number of women in senior positions dwindling to a minuscule proportion. With such...
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Article 4 mins