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SMEs and Net Zero – challenges and opportunities
Money & Business

SMEs and Net Zero – challenges and opportunities

...businesses are SMEs, and most are ‘small’ or ‘micro’ enterprises with between zero and 10 employees. Each might appear insignificant, but collectively they generate a sizeable proportion of the world’s carbon emissions, plus other environmental problems, such as air and water pollution. SMEs are also important in other ways, including the influence they can have...
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The shops that make us buy
Society, Politics & Law

The shops that make us buy

...money-spending effects of the following retail environments: Coffee shop, Supermarket, Clothing boutique, Car boot sale and Online shop. [An illustration of a supermarket taken from The shops that make us spend online carousel] Click on the image above to launch this interactive Instructions - For the best results, use a modern web browser . Upgrade to the latest version...
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Highs and lows and highs again: How football has changed in the past 50 years
Health, Sports & Psychology

Highs and lows and highs again: How football has changed in the past 50 years

...has had a huge impact on football in the previous 50 years. Simon Rea investigates the key changes over this period to our national game...In May 1969, one month after the inception of The Open University, Manchester City won the FA Cup when they defeated Leicester City 1-0 at Wembley Stadium. During The Open University’s 50th year they celebrated winning the League
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What makes people happy at work?
Money & Business

What makes people happy at work?

...money, it means an environment where they can actually give of their best. It means the reduction and elimination of discrimination generally, of systems and procedures that discriminate. It means allowing a level of empowerment, in terms of allowing people accountability and responsibility to make the organisation work. And it means finding innovative ways of working...
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Between humanity and space
Science, Maths & Technology

Between humanity and space

...money. One of the coins was a Florida quarter, declaring Florida to be the ‘gateway to discovery’. [Florida commemorative 25c coin, minted in 2004. Spanish Galleon, Space Shuttle, strip of land with palm trees.]From the sixteenth-century galleon to the twentieth-century Space Shuttle, we’ve used colonial ideas of ‘discovery’ and ‘exploration’. But often that...
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When Edward met Bertha: Mental Health, Colonialism, Race and Patriarchy in Jane Eyre
History & The Arts

When Edward met Bertha: Mental Health, Colonialism, Race and Patriarchy in Jane Eyre

...money and power. It is his narrative which Jane relates, as part of her own. But the suppresed voice needs to be heard, as Bertha’s is as much a part of the story, but this does not happen in Jane Eyre and Bertha is silenced. [An image of Bertha Merson from Jane Eyre] Over one hundred years after Charlotte Brontë wrote Jane Eyre, the author Jean Rhys gives a voice to...
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Theo on... getting celebrity endorsements
Money & Business

Theo on... getting celebrity endorsements

...Business Management (Marketing) qualification. Transcript Marketing isn't simple. The world isn't simple. The Open University Business School can help you sharpen your skills as a manager in charge of marketing. Selling direct to the public? The Open University has a course offering An introduction to retail management and marketing. The whole story Join Theo Paphitis as...
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The People on the Notes: Jane Austen
History & The Arts

The People on the Notes: Jane Austen

...money. W.H. Auden famously remarked of her fiction: ‘It makes me most uncomfortable to see/An English spinster of the middle-class/Describe the amorous effects of “brass”.’ Darcy’s worth is explicitly set at £10,000 a year, and, whatever else Pride and Prejudice may be about, it is about money, its desirability, and the way of life that expresses it and is...
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