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The Bletchley Park connection
History & The Arts

The Bletchley Park connection

...managed to give us the slip about 3 o’clock in the morning. A search was immediately started by all the ships in the area, and dispositions made by the Admiralty to cover her possible courses. As a result of this she was sighted by an aircraft of the coastal command about 10.30 on the morning of the 26th making for Brest. Chris Williams So, in the early hours of May the...
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Afrodite: Untangling the Routes of Black Women’s Hair
Education & Development

Afrodite: Untangling the Routes of Black Women’s Hair

...manageable, healthy and shiny – while ‘bad’ hair is ‘short, matted, kinky, nappy, coarse, brittle and woolly’ (Johnson and Bankhead, 2014). Consequently, terms such as ‘good hair’ have become a code for Caucasian straight hair, granting more power and social capital. Indeed, the idealisation of Eurocentric femininity with her long blonde hair and blue eyes...
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IT: Information
Science, Maths & Technology

IT: Information

...projected image. However , as Taylor discusses later in the paper , the equipment needed for filming in a narrower width (16 mm was used) was lighter and more portable. Activity 2 From your reading of this material and your understanding of the media, list the merits and limitations of each of: newspaper, radio and newsreels, as a source of news during the 1920s and...
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Level 1: Introductory 20 hrs
Children’s perspectives on play
Education & Development

Children’s perspectives on play

...project characters onto their toys and sometimes onto themselves. I used to have a role where I might get things going and they would then go with them. It’s less so these days because they’re sort of self-starting. My background as a photographer, video engineer and someone who’s interested in science means I have always been an explorer and a life learner. I...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Secondary learning
Education & Development

Secondary learning

...projects at The Open University, the focus of which are teacher education. As a beginning teacher you will almost certainly be preoccupied with survival – planning lessons, classroom management, marking work and meeting targets set for you and your school. Learning to be a teacher involves developing your own teaching personality, which enables you to be the sort of...
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Level 3: Advanced 11 hrs
Introducing ageing
Health, Sports & Psychology

Introducing ageing

...manage to keep jobs for long. Works part-time at a garden centre. Unpaid work None, as far as I know. Is ‘Brown Owl’ of her local Brownie group and secretary of local Gardening Club. Takes a neighbour shopping every week. Visits my Gran in the care home twice a week. Helps a friend with her garden. Social life At the pub or out clubbing most nights. Also goes on...
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Level 1: Introductory 11 hrs
Engineering: environmental fluids
Science, Maths & Technology

Engineering: environmental fluids

...manage Large waves, widespread longer-length foam crests 7 Near gale 14–17 50.4–61.2 Whole trees sway, walking into wind difficult Waves breaking, foam being blown, spindrift starting 8 Gale 17–21 61.2–75.6 Twigs break off trees, walking into wind more difficult High long waves, crests breaking into spindrift, prominent foam streaks 9 Strong gale 21–24...
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Level 3: Advanced 7 hrs
Getting started with Italian 2
Languages

Getting started with Italian 2

...project and is providing extracted units of all courses on The Open Centre in our dedicated Language and Cultures Hub. The Open Centre for Languages and Cultures is the exciting new home for non-accredited language and intercultural communication short courses. You can study a wide range of language and language related subjects with us anywhere in the world, in any time...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs