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Rent or buy? The challenge of access to housing
Money & Business

Rent or buy? The challenge of access to housing

...accounts for a good deal of most households’ spending, it is important to make the most appropriate decisions about where to live, what kind of home to choose and whether to rent or buy it. Furthermore, in many countries, housing is seen not just as a place to live but as a store of wealth. This means decisions about housing are important at the household level in...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Understanding and managing risk
Money & Business

Understanding and managing risk

...accounting matters, they are of key relevance to the subject of risk management. This is because investors and other stakeholders will examine the disclosures made under IFRS 7 to help ascertain how exposed an organisation is to financial risks. Additionally, the very fact that these disclosures have to be made places a requirement on the managers of organisations to...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
Researching at the Margins: How Collective Autoethnography centred Black mothers’ knowledge
Society, Politics & Law

Researching at the Margins: How Collective Autoethnography centred Black mothers’ knowledge

...accounts, demonstrating how our stories resonated with, complicated, and deepened theirs. As Jones (2021, p. 217) writes: ‘We are living in a time and space in which the personal – our sense of selves, safety, health, and well-being, and our relationships with others and the planet and our work – is urgently and globally political.’ Addressing the critics Critics...
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Justice, fairness and mediation
Money & Business

Justice, fairness and mediation

...accountable” is closely linked to the concepts of punishment and retribution “when you violate the law, you incur a debt to society.” In this – viewpoint, offender’s are held accountable when they have received or taken a sufficient amount of punishment. In the restorative justice paradigm the meaning of accountability shifts the focus from incurring a debt to...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Throwing light on research by South & Central American scientists
Science, Maths & Technology

Throwing light on research by South & Central American scientists

...of national authorities, insisting on better research in state projects, and better data in state development plans. The network and its news can also be followed at RedLBC‘s Twitter account and the hashtag #CienciaLatina. This article was translated for Global Voices Online by Hazina Cain-Houston, and originally published on Global Voices Online under a CC-BY licence...
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The inaugural lecture of Professor Edoardo Ongaro, Professor of Public Management
Miscellaneous

The inaugural lecture of Professor Edoardo Ongaro, Professor of Public Management

...account for the advancement of the field of public management, and the social sciences more broadly, rather than adopting more generic approaches. Date: Tuesday 6 February, 2018 Time: 6:00pm – 7:00pm Venue: The Open University, the Berrill Lecture Theatre, Walton Hall, Milton Keynes, MK7 6AA Live stream: Trailer video: Edoardo Ongaro is Professor of Public Management at...
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Introduction to the trauma-informed investigation of rape and serious sexual offences article series
Society, Politics & Law

Introduction to the trauma-informed investigation of rape and serious sexual offences article series

...account of events to the police. Being trauma informed and understanding how trauma manifests and how different issues impact on trauma in individuals forms part of this context-led approach. This series provides an overview of some information on different aspects of the approach and offers some insights into how it can be applied in practice, both in organisational and...
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Daisy Main
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Daisy Main

...account where she documents her learning journey, details of which you can find below. ‘For many students, the summer holidays can be a chance to relax, but they can sometimes put us in an academic limbo,’ Daisy explained, ‘But OpenLearn is the perfect way to stay motivated. It provides a low-pressure environment to learn when you aren’t in term time.’...
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