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Working with young people: roles and responsibilities
Education & Development

Working with young people: roles and responsibilities

...Centre and she’s, she’s put the money in, so there’s a hundred thousand pound extension which shall be built… KAWSAR [02.31] …so what happened with all the other areas….like… ANDREW [02.33] No, we can’t get planning permission – they’re too expensive – we need lots more money, you know, it’s not feasible. KAWSAR [02.43] A hundred thousand...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Rising China and Africa's development: oil
Society, Politics & Law

Rising China and Africa's development: oil

...research and this course is going to ask that question, is to what extent is this delivering benefits for Africa? Video 1 [Described image] Figure 1 The Chinese economy is often depicted in comic ways as a challenge to US global hegemony The data is impressive as the graphs (Figures 2a–d) in this PDF show. The data reveals that China’s economy has been growing...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
Data analysis: visualisations in Excel
Science, Maths & Technology

Data analysis: visualisations in Excel

...Researchers and analysts alike use this tool for various applications in the real world, such as in business, medicine, academia, logistics, operations, transportation, tax and auditing, marketing, accounting and finance. Moreover, it is flexible enough to be used with all types of data, irrespective of whether the data is qualitative or quantitative. In this section, you...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Approaching literature: reading Great Expectations
History & The Arts

Approaching literature: reading Great Expectations

...children. (I am not suggesting that any reader would think about all this on a first reading, by the way.) This distancing effect, pulling us back to the adult narrator's perspective, and then further, to our own reading of that narrator's views, is reinforced by Dickens's way of handling time. Salinger uses the present tense, and his child narrator looks back just less...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
Mental health in society
Health, Sports & Psychology

Mental health in society

...research sector. My big interest in mental health is severe mental illness and psychosis in particular, and the links between psychotic experience and various types of adversity, including social adversity. CIARAN MULHOLLAND My name is Ciaran Mulholland. I’m a consultant psychiatrist. A psychiatrist, just in case any of the listeners are unaware, a psychiatrist is first...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Enacting European Citizenship (ENACT)
Money & Business

Enacting European Citizenship (ENACT)

...researchers of the ENACT project. Rutvica Andrijasevic conducts the interview with Engin Isin, who in turn conducts the other interviews. Find out more about studying with The Open University by visiting our online prospectus...Enacting European Citizenship (ENACT): Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: demonstrate a familiarity with the...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Diary of a Mars operations day
Science, Maths & Technology

Diary of a Mars operations day

...researchers. I love those, because it was more senior colleagues taking time for me when I was beginning my career that got me to where I am today... including to Mars! Right after a late lunch, though, my favourite part of the week starts, as I am on the operations team for today’s rover planning – rover, which rover? The Mars Science Laboratory rover, Curiosity....
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Article 15 mins
Is a technological solution always the best? The politics of toilets
Health, Sports & Psychology

Is a technological solution always the best? The politics of toilets

...research actually revolves around an invention of sorts, but rather than innovating in new areas of material science my colleagues and I have been trying to design something that could be manufactured locally and easily repaired. Our Open Source Condom Vending Machine (OSCVM.org) is an attempt to build reliable, low-cost condom vending machines in Ghana. All the...
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Article 5 mins