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Seeing the bigger picture: exploring the stories of children from migrant backgrounds
Education & Development

Seeing the bigger picture: exploring the stories of children from migrant backgrounds

...resources for learning, my study involved children in an English nursery, who were asked to make images of special people, days out, toys, cooking, FaceTime calls to family in home countries, friends and more. I worked closely with the children’s teacher, practitioners and parents to listen to children’s photo conversations and the making of their personalised photo...
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Care for the elderly
Money & Business

Care for the elderly

...resources during the current period of economic crises and volatility. Despite being a widely recognised universal priority, the concrete investment in such services is commonly inadequate. Increasingly, it is being asked “can we afford to care for older citizens?” These problems are exacerbated by rising life expectancy and the greater pressure placed on people of...
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Article 5 mins
Learning about sex, a shilling a time: Aristotle's Masterpiece
History & The Arts

Learning about sex, a shilling a time: Aristotle's Masterpiece

...education in 18th Century Britain and America...John Cannon, a teenaged agricultural laborer, bought a book called Aristotle’s Masterpiece for a shilling in 1700. He usually read chapbooks like Fortunatus and Dr Faustus, but he bought the Masterpiece in order to “pry into the Secrets of Nature especially of the female sex” — to find out about sex. What he learned...
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Article 10 mins
A short introduction to the English language
Languages

A short introduction to the English language

...overlooked, the publishers will be pleased to make the necessary arrangements at the first opportunity. Don't miss out If reading this text has inspired you to learn more, you may be interested in joining the millions of people who discover our free learning resources and qualifications by visiting The Open University – www.open.edu/ openlearn/ free-courses....
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Working with charts, graphs and tables
Science, Maths & Technology

Working with charts, graphs and tables

...Open University by visiting our online prospectus...Working with charts, graphs and tables: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: reflect on existing skills and mathematical history, set up strategies to cope with mathematics and assess which areas need improving understand the following mathematical concepts, through instruction, worked...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
How can governments ensure their cybersecurity is strong?
Digital & Computing

How can governments ensure their cybersecurity is strong?

...resources (thus not “Cheap”) and time (thus not “Fast”) to its process, and as a result it ended up with a substantially better final product than many of the jurisdictions that either rushed programs out the door, or tried to repurpose existing resources without thoughtful investment in a field of growing importance. The desire for quick and low cost answers to...
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Commercial awareness
Money & Business

Commercial awareness

...Education team in The Open University Business School. Except for third party materials and otherwise stated (see terms and conditions), this content is made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 Licence. The material acknowledged below is Proprietary and used under licence (not subject to Creative Commons Licence). Grateful...
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Level 1: Introductory 2 hrs
Download your free Matrix of Modern Life poster
Science, Maths & Technology

Download your free Matrix of Modern Life poster

...Open University that explores the colourful connections between different parts of science, engineering and technology - presented in the inimitable Bang style...This print item is now download only [Matrix of Modern Life] Celebrate Bang by downloading your free 'Matrix of Modern Life' poster. From the Large Hadron Collider to your microwave oven, jumbo jet to fuel cells,...
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