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Redundancy - what are your next steps?
Education & Development

Redundancy - what are your next steps?

...out about support that may be available to you, advice on finance, wellbeing and career planning. Listen to those who have experienced and successfully reframed their redundancy journey, plus from recruiters on how to present yourself positively in future applications. To start with, it’s perfectly natural to experience a range of emotions if you have been made...
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Can the Economy be Irish?
Money & Business

Can the Economy be Irish?

...out the word 'Brexit'] Image credit: Speedpropertybuyers The Irish are great storytellers, illuminated through the centuries by Beckett, Yeats, O’Brien, Shaw, Wilde, Binchy, Enright and Joyce to name a few. The great English lexicographer, Samuel Johnson, said that narrative is the superior form of knowledge, whilst the German philosopher, Hegel, stated that knowledge...
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Assessing the Future of Artificial Intelligence
Science, Maths & Technology

Assessing the Future of Artificial Intelligence

...out knowledge on a topic as well as critical reflection on it. Whilst well-designed assessment strategies are there to test a learner’s grasp of a subject area, they can also be used as a powerful learning support tool, helping direct you to convert your own knowledge and understanding of a topic in order to express a well-constructed argument based on it. Assessment...
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How fertility rates affect population
Science, Maths & Technology

How fertility rates affect population

...out why? The fertility rate based model regulates the rate at which new people are introduced into the population starting in 2012; the life expectancy model regulates how people started to leave the population profile. Maybe not surprisingly, the difference in effect on the overall predicted population size by 2087 is not as significant as it was for the different...
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Stargazing on a budget
Science, Maths & Technology

Stargazing on a budget

...checking out reviews before spending your money as there are many available free from various on-line sources. Remember that the best astronomical resource of all is free – it is the night sky itself. Any effort expended in finding a dark site away from light pollution will be well rewarded. The Open University are not responsible for the content of external websites...
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Universities United
Nature & Environment

Universities United

...out how progress against these targets will be reported in a transparent, consistent, and understandable way, and collectively work with official statistics providers to improve data collection. Sign the UN’s SDG Accord or embed elements of SDG accord reporting into their existing reporting. Use the Climate Commission’s Climate Action toolkit to assess how further...
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Telegram brief history. Stop
Digital & Computing

Telegram brief history. Stop

...out our own hopes and fears of modern technologies? ...Find out about The Open University's Science courses and qualifications. [Fine specimen of a real antique Morse code telegraph machine.] An antique Morse code telegraph machine The word 'telegram' may conjure up the image of a frayed yellowing document, containing a message about a now distant historical event,...
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There is a biological reason why teenagers struggle to wake up early!
Health, Sports & Psychology

There is a biological reason why teenagers struggle to wake up early!

...out, Russell Foster at the University of Oxford made a key breakthrough in the neuroscience of time. By raising blind mice, Foster was able to show that all mammals’ sleep times depended on sunlight only. This means that biological time – which determines when you feel sleepy – is different from social time, which is set by clocks and customs about when things...
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