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The Empties Generation: Why did we hit peak booze in 2004
History & The Arts

The Empties Generation: Why did we hit peak booze in 2004

...human easier. It wasn’t that alcohol made my social anxiety disappear; that feeling would show up again the next morning, accompanied by a headache and bottom-of-a-bird’s-cage mouth. But drinking meant I could talk to people more easily, sometimes even dance. Still, there was always that one last drink that tipped me over the edge. At one ball I drank so much free...
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Financial statement analysis and interpretation
Money & Business

Financial statement analysis and interpretation

...resources, financial leverage, dividend pay-outs, etc. However, this information needs to be extracted and analysed to make an evaluation of a company’s earnings, its financial performance in comparison to its competitors and its ability to pay back its loans. An evaluation of changes in the value of one item in relation to another item can help draw useful inferences...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Retirement planning made easy
Money & Business

Retirement planning made easy

...resources and courses on OpenLearn. New to University study? You may be interested in our Access modules. You might also be interested in the Open University course DB125 You and your money and the BA in Economics. Making the decision to study can be a big step and The Open University has over 40 years of experience supporting its students through their chosen learning...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Learning to teach: making sense of learning to teach
Education & Development

Learning to teach: making sense of learning to teach

...human side and still become a person that they can have a relationship with and that they can develop some trust with and I think if you have that really good sense of trust and understanding of each other then actually they will do pretty much what you want them to do. So I guess after 26 years of teaching experience, the idea of developing your relationship with the...
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Level 3: Advanced 5 hrs
Additive manufacturing
Science, Maths & Technology

Additive manufacturing

...human tissue and organs. (a) Skull repair. (b) Jawbone reconstruction. (c) Broken bone support cast. (d) Custom dental work. The key point is that once the design is finalised, the cost and effort required to make a single instance of that design versus a large batch are similar. This is almost unheard of in manufacturing and could be called a paradigm shift...Additive...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
Start writing fiction
History & The Arts

Start writing fiction

...human being?’ ‘Uh oh,’ Lula said from behind the file cabinet. ‘Rhino alert.’ Lula is a retired hooker who helps clean up the filing and sometimes rides shotgun for me when I do my fugitive apprehension thing. If people were cars, Lula would be a big, black ’53 Packard with a high-gloss chrome grill, oversized headlights, and a growl like a junkyard dog. Lots...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Understanding devolution in Wales
Society, Politics & Law

Understanding devolution in Wales

...resources are spent on nurses not bureaucrats and red tape. Better schools – by setting tough new standards for literacy, numeracy and overall achievement.. Better job opportunities – by providing a voice in Europe and around the world, to attract investment and back Welsh companies. Better democracy – by ensuring that decisions about local schools and hospitals are...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Discovering Ancient Greek and Latin
History & The Arts

Discovering Ancient Greek and Latin

...human nature The Greek words had in their turn been invented centuries earlier for the purpose of philosophising. Indeed Plato, who coined the word ποιότης (poiotēs) for ‘quality’ (from ποῖος, poios, meaning ‘of what kind?’), apologised to his audience for its strangeness (Theaetetus, 182a). If we wish to emphasise the expressive power of Greek and...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs