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Sex workers’ labour struggles in Scotland
Society, Politics & Law

Sex workers’ labour struggles in Scotland

...Open University's Social Sciences courses Background There is no figure so mystified as the sex worker. She is either a whore who must be punished, a fallen woman (and it is always believed to be just women who are sex workers) who must be saved, or a public health hazard who must be stopped to save society from her immorality and disease. However, for several decades sex...
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Krishan Arora - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Krishan Arora - Earth in Vision

...open to the public. ...Krishan Arora Krishan is a consultant and producer. He is currently the International Content Consultant for Australian public channel SBS Television. He was previously at the BBC in London, first as Commissioning Executive for specialist factual documentaries and then as the Independents Executive, responsible for the BBC’s strategic relationship...
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Krishan Arora - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Krishan Arora - Earth in Vision

...open to the public...Krishan Arora Krishan Arora is a consultant and producer. He is currently the International Content Consultant for Australian public channel SBS Television. He was previously at the BBC in London, first as Commissioning Executive for specialist factual documentaries and then as the Independents Executive, responsible for the BBC’s strategic...
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Introduction to operations management
Money & Business

Introduction to operations management

...Open University course B207 Shaping business opportunities. The full course explores how organisations work by looking at their internal functions (operations management, human relations, finance and marketing). You will also learn about the external environment for businesses and how the economic and political context helps shape how businesses respond to global...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Working mathematically
Science, Maths & Technology

Working mathematically

...Open University course ME620 Mathematical thinking in schools...Working mathematically: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: understand some current issues in mathematics education, such as the relationship of mathematics content to mathematics processes understand the use of pedagogical frameworks used in teaching mathematics such as...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
An introduction to material culture
History & The Arts

An introduction to material culture

...opened body by his friend who was a doctor, who undertook to enact the terms of the will. His head was preserved and mummified, unfortunately not very successfully, and it wasn’t really recognisable so it has been replaced by a wax head. And then the skeleton was reconstructed and dressed with Bentham’s own clothes, and he was put into a pose that’s supposed to be...
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Level 1: Introductory 2 hrs
World-Changing Women: Marie-Louise Girardin
History & The Arts

World-Changing Women: Marie-Louise Girardin

...open to a young woman who had given birth to a child out of wedlock and had then been abandoned by the father. Unable to see a familial or economic future for herself at home, Marie-Louise Victoire Girardin escaped parental disgrace by disguising herself as a man. She joined a scientific expedition to Tasmania as a ship’s steward, calling herself Louis Girardin....
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World-Changing Women: Hildegard of Bingen
History & The Arts

World-Changing Women: Hildegard of Bingen

...open to women were limited. Although the Church was organised as a male hierarchy, it did offer women the benefit of education and the means to attain some measure of autonomy. One woman who took advantage of these opportunities was Hildegard of Bingen. Born in the Rhineland, the tenth child of noble parents, Hildegard was educated from the age of eight at the Benedictine...
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