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The City: The Roman and Greek Cities
History & The Arts

The City: The Roman and Greek Cities

...resources from the provinces and ultimately to establish Roman institutions in native society. If it was commerce that drove urbanisation in Greece, it was the political needs of an empire that drove the urbanisation of northern Europe. Eventually, provincial aristocrats like Ausonius, a resident of Bordeaux in the fourth century AD, came to see the political and cultural...
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Science, Maths & Technology

Discovering chemistry

...resources and qualifications by visiting The Open University – www.open.edu/ openlearn/ free-courses ...Session 1: Atoms – the building blocks of matter: Introduction - Atoms are the basic building blocks of all the substances around you, rather like letters are used to construct words and hence a language. And a look ‘inside’ an atom is perhaps your best starting...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Language of Poverty
Society, Politics & Law

Language of Poverty

...Open University's Gerry Mooney discusses the language used to describe poverty in the UK with columnist and writer, Owen Jones ...The language used to describe poverty in the UK has a vital bearing on how welfare policy is implemented, and how policies are perceived by the wider population. The strivers versus skivers debate has framed much of the Government's current...
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Seeing institutions in different ways
Society, Politics & Law

Seeing institutions in different ways

...Open University course TU872 Institutional development: Conflicts, values and meanings...Seeing institutions in different ways: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: understand different ways of thinking about institutions and institutional development appreciate that institutions in processes of development create pictures of...
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Level 3: Advanced 12 hrs
Why do transgender students need safe bathrooms?
Education & Development

Why do transgender students need safe bathrooms?

...educational institutions - and other public spaces are likely to follow. Alison Gash explains why it's important...Bathroom safety has become the next battle for transgender students on college campuses across the nation. Often referred to as “bathroom desegregation,” calls for safer bathrooms have inspired “shit-ins” at California Polytechnic and San Diego State,...
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Child spirituality
Education & Development

Child spirituality

...education, identity, family and social relationships, social presentation, emotional and behavioural development, self-care skills). They also require assessments to think about each child in the context of their particular family and community. This helps practitioners to assess what appears to be universal to children, to understand individual differences, the...
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Betty Luckham: celebrating the activism of a pioneering Windrush woman
History & The Arts

Betty Luckham: celebrating the activism of a pioneering Windrush woman

...education at Carnegie College of Domestic Science, she was very involved in helping to care for relatives of her mother who were in poor health. [This is a map of Guyana] Map showing the location of Guyana At 18, Betty entered the world of work, beginning in the Department of Transport and Harbours before joining the civil service in the Housing and Planning Authority....
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What can Earth tell us about Mars?
Science, Maths & Technology

What can Earth tell us about Mars?

...Education)...Michael Macey is a post-doctoral researcher with the AstrobiologyOU research group at The Open University. His research explores the microbial communities that live in some of the most extreme environments on Earth; environments that Michael and his colleagues believe closely resemble early environments on Mars. Using microorganisms isolated from these...
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