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General Election 2015 - 79Rewind
Society, Politics & Law

General Election 2015 - 79Rewind

...managed politics and we want good, justified performances. Glenda Jackson agrees. GLENDA JACKSON I do sometimes sit and fulminate when I’m watching either PMQs or questions to Ministers, MPs stand up and they haven’t rehearsed their question, and there’s a kind of lot of humming and ahhing and taking ages to get to the point. MICHAEL SAWARD So what is a citizen to...
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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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Critically exploring psychology
Health, Sports & Psychology

Critically exploring psychology

...Introduction - This free course introduces you to critical thinking as a tool for psychology. As you work your way through the course you will learn what critical thinking is, and why it is important to use in the study of psychology. In particular, it will help you to think about how to use it when doing independent research. The course is divided into five separate...
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Level 3: Advanced 3 hrs
Approaching language, literature and childhood
Education & Development

Approaching language, literature and childhood

...Introduction - This free course, Approaching language, literature and childhood, introduces you to the field of children’s literature. In this course, you’ll consider issues such as: How do children acquire and use languages and literacies? Why (and how) is language important in children’s literature? Why (and how) is literature important for children and young...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Health and wellbeing in the ancient world
History & The Arts

Health and wellbeing in the ancient world

...Introduction - Welcome to Week 1 of this free course, Health and wellbeing in the ancient world. In this exciting course you will engage directly with voices and objects from the ancient Greek and Roman worlds to find out what people in the past thought about their health, and to consider how healthy they would have been. You’ll be looking at the body from head to toe,...
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Level 1: Introductory 18 hrs
Economics and the 2008 crisis: a Keynesian view
Society, Politics & Law

Economics and the 2008 crisis: a Keynesian view

...Introduction - Decisions, decisions, decisions. Governments need to make decision about how much to spend, how to finance their debt and how much revenue to collect, in order to ensure their citizens’ welfare is as high as it can be, given that there is a limited amount of resources available or borrowable against future repayments. These decisions become even more...
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Level 2: Intermediate 28 hrs
Digital communications
Digital & Computing

Digital communications

...Introduction - This unit is from our archive and it is an adapted extract from Digital Communications (T305) which is no longer in presentation. If you wish to study formally at The Open University, you may wish to explore the courses we offer in this curriculum area. By using optical fibre, very high data rates (gigabits per second and higher) can be transmitted over...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs