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Why is FGM practised?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Why is FGM practised?

...manage pain during the procedure. In most cases, the girl is held down and restrained by a family member or others from the community. Medicalised FGM In recent years, international and professional organisations have raised grave concerns about the emergence of medicalised FGM, where the procedure is undertaken by qualified healthcare professionals using clinical methods...
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Non-existent countries
Society, Politics & Law

Non-existent countries

...introduction to – to fifty non-existent countries. And when I say non-existent I mean places that would like to be countries but are not recognised as such by other countries. And those other countries being places with a seat at the United Nations for example. But when you start looking into what defines a country first point to make is that there is no
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Abolitionism must come from below: A critique of British Anti-Slavery Abolition
Society, Politics & Law

Abolitionism must come from below: A critique of British Anti-Slavery Abolition

...introduction of the Slavery Abolition Act (1833) brought an end to slavery in British Empire in 1838. But during this this time, not only was there an intensification in the exploitation of ‘free labour’, but also a rise in penal servitude, which was to reach its zenith in Britain later that century with the ‘hard fare, hard bed and hard labour’ prison policies...
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Article 20 mins
Succeed with maths: part 1 Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Succeed with maths: part 1

...manage your digital badges online from My OpenLearn. In addition, you can download and print your OpenLearn statement of participation - which also displays your Open University badge. The Open University would really appreciate a few minutes of your time to tell us about yourself and your expectations for the course before you begin, in our optional start-of-course...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Everyday maths 2
Science, Maths & Technology

Everyday maths 2

...manage your digital badges online from your OpenLearn Profile. In addition, you can download and print your OpenLearn Statement of participation – which also displays your badge. This course has been produced as part of the Department for Education’s Flexible Learning Fund and with the kind support of Dangoor Education, the educational arm of The Exilarch’s...
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Free course 48 hrs
Visions of protest: graffiti
History & The Arts

Visions of protest: graffiti

...Introduction - What is graffiti? Is it art, vandalism or a form of popular protest? This course, which is based on materials from Y031, the Open University’s Arts and languages Access module, introduces you to contrasting understandings of graffiti. It draws on a wide range of different examples of graffiti, including mystery zebras in Hackney, fish graffiti in...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Agatha Christie and the golden age of detective fiction
History & The Arts

Agatha Christie and the golden age of detective fiction

...Introduction - English Literature reached new mass audiences in Britain in the first decades of the twentieth century, as widespread literacy, and a lack of competition from other media – cinema and radio were in their infancy – encouraged commercial diversification and the development of popular genre fiction. When we think of literature as a popular cultural form,...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
Forensic science and fingerprints
Health, Sports & Psychology

Forensic science and fingerprints

...Introduction - This course covers how science can make fingerprints easier to study, how they are used in court and some of the questions about the extent to which fingerprint identification is sound and scientific. Visible fingerprints can be photographed conventionally but an important scientific problem is how to make 'latent' fingerprints, which are not visible to the...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs