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Systems Practice case study - The CEO
Money & Business

Systems Practice case study - The CEO

...learning on the job. I would monitor whether the deal was working through the fortnightly meeting. * An 'advance development' team. These are teams that have shared interests and work together to develop their knowledge and skills so that the organisation can keep ahead in areas where we are, or want to be, active. * An admin task that would necessitate speaking to every...
Fake news during COVID-19
Science, Maths & Technology

Fake news during COVID-19

...LEARN MORE: • Wondering how experts conduct research and modelling of COVID-19? We have another interview with statistician Dr Sayantan Banerjee, who explains in more mathematical terms, how such modelling is being done, and its application to the situation in India. Click here. • To watch a thorough discussion and Q&A session on COVID-19 with experts from the OU STEM...
‘A little bit of kindness’: migrant nurses in the Scottish NHS
Society, Politics & Law

‘A little bit of kindness’: migrant nurses in the Scottish NHS

...learned from the industrial relations models in Europe, where some countries have a tripartite system. Through this unions, employers, and state work together and develop policies to avoid issues of racism and wider social welfare issues (Connolly, Marion, and Lucio, 2014). References, Sources and Links Connolly, H., Marino, S. and Lucio, M.M. (2014) ‘Trade union...
Challenge: Make paper and ink
Science, Maths & Technology

Challenge: Make paper and ink

...learning to identify tropical plants in the field/forest) Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients Used in Food, Drugs, and Cosmetics by Albert Y. Leung and Steven Foster. 1995 John Wiley & Sons Inc; ISBN: 0471508268 Fruits and Vegetables of the Caribbean by M.J.Bourne, G.W. Lennox, and S.A. Seddon, Caribbean Publishing 1988, ISBN: 0333453115 Trees of the Caribbean by...
United We Will Swim: Women’s Role in The Struggle to Save Glasgow’s Govanhill Pool
Society, Politics & Law

United We Will Swim: Women’s Role in The Struggle to Save Glasgow’s Govanhill Pool

...learned to swim there and were part of the in-house Kingston Swimming Club, a club with a proud history of teaching thousands of working-class children swimming for almost 100 years; Nicola Fisher, a local teacher who lived on Calder Street who had used the slipper baths for a hot bath for many years before internal bathrooms were installed into her tenement; Jean Adair,...
Arglwyddes Llanofer, alawon Cymreig a chytgord cenedlaethol
History & The Arts

Arglwyddes Llanofer, alawon Cymreig a chytgord cenedlaethol

...learned them of her mother, who lived to 95 and so traced them back for centuries transmitted orally, never written down.’ [Tudalen deitl Ancient National Airs of Gwent and Morganwg.]Tudalen deitl Ancient National Airs of Gwent and Morganwg (1844). Noder y cyflwyniad i'r Frenhines Fictoria. (Llun: Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru) Rhaid dweud, petai Maria Jane Williams wedi...
Seeing foreigners as weird and different: What is orientalism?
Society, Politics & Law

Seeing foreigners as weird and different: What is orientalism?

...learning more about the man behind the body, you will find this BBC article about “the man stuffed and displayed like a wild animal” as informative as it is disturbing. Another way to turn foreign people into spectacles for the western gaze was to put actual people on display. For instance, in the collections of Heinrich Zille, an illustrator and photographer who...
Change in the West of Ireland
OpenLearn Ireland

Change in the West of Ireland

...Learning Outcomes By engaging with this collection of articles, you will be able to: Recognise how the different elements of society are linked together in any one particular place Apply the method of synthesis to explain how places in rural Ireland retain their uniqueness within evolving systems of interdependence Recognise how links between places are part of wider...