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Raymond Williams and Leonardo Sciascia: Intellectuals At the Margins
Society, Politics & Law

Raymond Williams and Leonardo Sciascia: Intellectuals At the Margins

...work brought them global reputations but the starting points, the essence of their writing to which they always returned, was life experience drawn from the margins and across the borders of different worlds. Their work brought them global reputations but the starting points, the essence of their writing to which they always returned, was life experience drawn from the...
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Creative writing and critical reading
History & The Arts

Creative writing and critical reading

...works in social settings, how monologues operate. Reading specific sections in isolation reminds you that a script has to have a structural coherence even in its smallest units...Creative writing and critical reading: 4 Writers on reading - In the next activity, you will listen to members of the Creative Writing course team at The Open University talking about their...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
Sam Selvon, The Lonely Londoners
History & The Arts

Sam Selvon, The Lonely Londoners

...social structure, cultural norms and values, and climate? The discussions of Selvon’s novel in this course will offer some possible answers to this and other questions, through an emphasis on the themes of migration and memory...Sam Selvon, The Lonely Londoners: Leaving home - The issue of finding a ‘voice’ for the articulation of West Indian migrant experience has...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Eric King and Bill Binney: Some thoughts on their interview
Society, Politics & Law

Eric King and Bill Binney: Some thoughts on their interview

...working for institutions concerned fundamentally with operating within and protecting the Constitution. We know that large organisations are subject to regime change. Regime change can and repeatedly does put even the core structural principles and values of any institution in jeopardy. Institutional memory fades and anything can be sacrificed to the agenda of the...
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Fossil evidence for evolution
History & The Arts

Fossil evidence for evolution

...work has more than borne out his theories, explains Peter Skelton...[An ammonite fossil embedded in rock.] We tend to think of Charles Darwin as a kindly-looking old man with a big beard, but let's wind the clock back to the vigorous 22-year old embarking in 1831 on the voyage of a lifetime around the world on the survey ship, HMS Beagle. Recently down from Cambridge, his...
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Stakeholders in marketing and finance
Money & Business

Stakeholders in marketing and finance

...work practice...This free course, Stakeholders in marketing and finance, comprises two sections introducing the idea of customers and stakeholders for financial information. It also contains two activities in which learners are asked to relate the ideas discussed to their own work practice....Stakeholders in marketing and finance: Introduction - This course comprises two...
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Level 2: Intermediate 2 hrs
Introduction to UK immigration law and becoming an immigration adviser
Society, Politics & Law

Introduction to UK immigration law and becoming an immigration adviser

...social life for the next ten weeks. Do the work you find most difficult when your concentration is strongest. Take regular breaks, perhaps every 45 minutes. Be flexible – reflect on whether your study pattern is working. For example, if you are getting less done in the evenings than you hoped, try something different – perhaps by studying in the early morning. Avoid...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
A World Cup legacy for generations to come
Health, Sports & Psychology

A World Cup legacy for generations to come

...work towards. These include creating opportunities for talented female footballers to remain playing in New Zealand, developing more female coaches, coach educators and leaders, creating a more effective talent pathway and building a stronger relationship with the Māori Football Aotearoa. This video, produced by New Zealand Football, provides an overview of the Legacy...
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