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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
Understanding different research perspectives
Money & Business

Understanding different research perspectives

...Open University course B865 Managing research in the workplace...Understanding different research perspectives: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: understand the different perspectives from which a problem can be investigated consider the researcher’s involvement in the research process as insider and/or outsider reflect on the...
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Level 3: Advanced 9 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
World-Changing Women: Cynisca
History & The Arts

World-Changing Women: Cynisca

...education and women had freedom of movement. In addition, Spartan women were discouraged from spending time on household activities and encouraged to participate in active physical exercise. Their revealing sportswear earned them the nick-name 'thigh-showers'. However, at Olympia, women were still not allowed to participate in the most prestigious games festival in the...
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Article 5 mins
Should I use a skills-based CV to smooth the gaps in my employment history?
Money & Business

Should I use a skills-based CV to smooth the gaps in my employment history?

...education and qualifications: degree subject, class (attained or expected), modules studied, A levels (always with dates and grades), summarised GCSE/O levels or CSEs a description of your key or transferable skills (identify the key skills required for the job and use these headings in your CV) a summary of your work experience your referees, who can be named or ‘on...
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Article 5 mins
World-Changing Women: Charlotte Maxeke
History & The Arts

World-Changing Women: Charlotte Maxeke

...education. She was taken on a tour of the United States with her church choir and remained in the USA to study at Wilberforce University in Cleveland, Ohio. She graduated with a B.Sc degree having met her husband. When they both returned to South Africa in 1901, Maxeke did so as South Africa's first Black woman graduate. Maxeke worked as a teacher and, together with her...
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Article 5 mins
DIY: Measuring latitude and longitude
Society, Politics & Law

DIY: Measuring latitude and longitude

...Open University's Geography courses and qualifications. To pinpoint your position on a map of the world you need to work out your co-ordinates, known as latitude and longitude. Latitude is your position north or south of the Equator. Lines, or parallels, are drawn around the Earth at intervals. The North Pole is assigned the latitude 90º north and the South Pole latitude...
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Article 15 mins