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How is Italy reinventing the co-op?
Money & Business

How is Italy reinventing the co-op?

...Open Group, a 300-member social cooperative, runs a dizzying array of programs out of a buzzing office near Bologna’s central train station. A bike lane is painted across their floor to underscore one of its numerous missions: making Bologna into Italy’s best city for bicycling. Other missions include: Rehabilitating drug and alcohol addicts; Providing services to...
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Homo Economicus, the East India Company and industrial espionage
Society, Politics & Law

Homo Economicus, the East India Company and industrial espionage

...Open University researcher Sara de Jong on the intersections of identity and citizenship with economic history and language...[Plant by Laura Malacart] Sara: What were the sources of inspiration for developing your current installation for the Who Are We? Project? What discoveries did you make in the process that have found a place in your artistic intervention? Laura: I...
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The law-making process in England and Wales
Society, Politics & Law

The law-making process in England and Wales

...Open University course W101An introduction to law...The law-making process in England and Wales: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: explain the roles played by various individuals and bodies who may instigate legislative proposals discuss the legislative process in the Westminster Parliament distinguish between primary and secondary...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Fundamentals of accounting
Money & Business

Fundamentals of accounting

...resources and qualifications by visiting The Open University – www.open.edu/ openlearn/ free-courses...Week 3: Double-entry accounting: Introduction - As you learned in Week 1, accounting is a process that involves: the systematic recording of all relevant financial transactions and events classifying, interpreting, summarising and reporting such bookkeeping data the...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Discover Moon minerals
Science, Maths & Technology

Discover Moon minerals

...Open University's Science courses and qualifications. Moon Minerals is a comprehensive and easy to follow visual guide of minerals that have been reported in lunar samples. For those who may like to delve a bit deeper to develop an understanding of the scientific context for many of these minerals, you will find the associated text particularly helpful. Indeed, one of the...
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Do partnerships like John Lewis represent a better way of doing modern business?
Money & Business

Do partnerships like John Lewis represent a better way of doing modern business?

...openness to the market in the buying and selling of businesses, is prone to a number of problematic consequences for employees, suppliers, and sometimes share-holders. The JLP represents a contrast to this model - one that has implications beyond the small niche of mutually-owned firms. The JLP has lessons for organisations that are unlikely to move towards the...
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What is socialisation? The one minute guide
Education & Development

What is socialisation? The one minute guide

...Open University's Early Years courses and qualifications What is Socialisation? [Two babies looking up with text 'Socialisation is the way that children come to be able to function as members of their community'] Basically, socialisation is a general term for the many different ways and processes by which children come to be able to function as members of their social...
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Chinese at the tip of your tongue: A glimpse of Chinese
Languages

Chinese at the tip of your tongue: A glimpse of Chinese

...means to tear. Here are some terms for transport that contain the character chē: huŏ chē, zi xing chē, gōnggòng qichē, chūzū chē, miànbāo chē, sānlún chē, mă chē. In China roads are very, very busy and you can usually find a mix of these forms of transport sharing the same road. Dur: 2’45” Inspired? Learn beginner's Chinese with The Open University...
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