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EPQs: why give a presentation?
Education & Development

EPQs: why give a presentation?

...available online to help you prepare and give good presentations. Here are two from the Open University that you might find useful: Communicating and presenting: skills for OU study Giving presentations [Extended Project Qualification banner]This article is part of our ‘EPQ - helps and tips’ series. Click here to view the other articles or find them listed below....
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How do social networks play a key role in disaster recovery?
Society, Politics & Law

How do social networks play a key role in disaster recovery?

...studied more than 130 cities, towns and villages in Tohoku, looking at factors such as exposure to the ocean, seawall height, tsunami height, voting patterns, demographics, and social capital. We found that municipalities which had higher levels of trust and interaction had lower mortality levels after we controlled for all of those confounding factors. The kind of social...
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The awarding gap at The Open University
Education & Development

The awarding gap at The Open University

...study with work and caring responsibilities. Students can take up to sixteen years to complete their degree given the modular based study routes offered by the OU. The key aim is to `remove all inequalities in access and outcomes for students from underrepresented and disadvantaged backgrounds´The OU is committed to reducing the gap and is guided by the principles set...
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Rio 2016: A Caster Semenya reading list
Health, Sports & Psychology

Rio 2016: A Caster Semenya reading list

...studies in Russia and South Korea showing that most elite female athletes had much lower testosterone levels, between 0.1 and 3.08 nmol/L. In fact, they added, 99 percent of female athletes had testosterone below 3.08 nmol/L. If anything, they said, the 10 nmol/L cap for women was "arguably too generous." But Chand, who will race the 100-meter dash at the Olympics on...
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The secret history of teenage bedrooms
Education & Development

The secret history of teenage bedrooms

...study of that very phenomenon called Get Out of My Room! Its author is Jason Reid, who lectures in History at Ryerson University in Toronto, from where he now joins me, while here in the studio I have Sian Lincoln, who’s Senior Lecturer in Media Studies at Liverpool John Moores University. Jason, going over to you first in Toronto, that Beach Boys song would you agree...
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Getting started with SPSS
Society, Politics & Law

Getting started with SPSS

...studying and using statistics. The good news is that these days, when we carry out statistics in social science, very little of it is done by hand. Instead, we use a computer programme to do most of the hard work for us. The most common computer software that we use for carrying out statistics in the social sciences is the aptly named: Statistical Package for the Social...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
Delacroix
History & The Arts

Delacroix

...study Delacroix's early career, his classical background, the development of Romantic ideas and their incorporation into his work. You will have the opportunity to study some of his most important paintings and compare them to works favouring a Neoclassical approach. You will also be able to see how his themes, subjects and style were influenced by Romantic ideas, the...
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Level 1: Introductory 16 hrs
John Webster, The Duchess of Malfi
History & The Arts

John Webster, The Duchess of Malfi

...skills of textual analysis...This free course, John Webster, The Duchess of Malfi, concentrates on Acts 1 and 2 of John Webster's Renaissance tragedy, The Duchess of Malfi. It focuses on the representation of marriage for love and the social conflicts to which it gives rise. The course is designed to hone your skills of textual analysis....John Webster, The Duchess of...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs