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Buddhist Economics
Society, Politics & Law

Buddhist Economics

...working and teaching in accounting and finance has forced him to a fundamental reappraisal of the idea that businesses’ objective is to maximise shareholder wealth. The case for shareholder wealth Alan Shipman of The Open University Economics Department recalls the origins and optimistic expectations of the shareholder value ‘revolution’, inspired by economic ideas...
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Renewable Energy and the UK
Science, Maths & Technology

Renewable Energy and the UK

...work to do to ensure the targets are met. Managing energy supply from variable renewables to ensure it meets demand is one of the key challenges in a transition to a renewable future. Because wind and solar power output is variable, new ways of balancing supply and demand are being developed. These involve a mixture of demand management, storage, backup from conventional...
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Environment: journeys through a changing world
Nature & Environment

Environment: journeys through a changing world

...working to preserve the gorillas' natural habitat and develop quality of life for the locals. This material forms part of the course U116 Environment: Journeys Through a Changing World... Environment: journeys through a changing world A short introduction to this album Conservation for Whom? How locals and gorillas can inhabit the forest in harmony. Conservationists...
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Think like a scientist
Science, Maths & Technology

Think like a scientist

...works. These materials form part of the Open University free courses Basic Science: Understanding Experiments and Basic Science: Understanding Numbers available from OpenLearn. http://www.open.edu/openlearn/free-courses... How to present your results A graph is a great way of telling a story with numbers but the same data can be presented using different ways. So how do...
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The secret history of teenage bedrooms
Education & Development

The secret history of teenage bedrooms

...work out so well in many instances. But it’s definitely – you see that the teen bedroom is kind of portrayed as a reflection of what the middle class hopes their children turns out to be. And of course the realities are always a bit muddier than that but these are ideals anyway that people could strive for. Laurie Taylor: And you interestingly say that what impels or...
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Mary Colwell - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Mary Colwell - Earth in Vision

...worked for the BBC, ABC and independent companies across a career that started in the 1980’s. Mary has two science degrees from Manchester and Bristol universities. She published her first book “John Muir – The Scotsman who Saved America’s Wild Places” in 2015 and is a feature writer for The Tablet. She is currently walking 500 miles across Britain and Ireland...
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Reading communities: why, what and how?
Education & Development

Reading communities: why, what and how?

...work in the long term. They encourage children to read for recognition, for reward, for their parents, their teachers and/or the school, but not for themselves. Reading for pleasure is more closely associated with intrinsic motivation; it is reading that children do for themselves at their own pace, with whom they choose and in their own way. Reading for pleasure is more...
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Introducing environmental decision making
Nature & Environment

Introducing environmental decision making

...work, which products to buy in the shop – to complex decisions about changing jobs, moving house, choosing schools and participating as a member of a local community in planning decisions and improvements. What processes do we go through in making these decisions about different possible courses of action? Are they the same every time? Are they the same for everyone?...
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Level 3: Advanced 24 hrs