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Organisations and the financial system
Money & Business

Organisations and the financial system

...source always better than another? Can every type of goal be achieved by relying on the same source of financing? This free course Organisations and the financial system will explore these questions by discussing the sources of financing potentially available to every type of organisation, including those in the public and voluntary sector. You will also look at why...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Why riot? Community, choices, aspirations
Education & Development

Why riot? Community, choices, aspirations

...sources for permission to reproduce material in this free course: Time to Think Logo: © The Open University Figures Figure 1: courtesy: © Hugh Pollock 2021 (Highgrove Media) Figures 2, 7: Artwork: © The Open University Figure 3: Christian Horz/Alamy Stock Photo Figure 4: Rudzhan Nagiev/Getty Images/iStock Figure 5: Courtesy: Gabi Kent Figure 6. 9, 11, 13: © The Open...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
The Jewish Ghetto of Renaissance Venice
History & The Arts

The Jewish Ghetto of Renaissance Venice

...Open University's Religious Studies courses and qualifications [Thomas Coryat] In Renaissance Europe, Jews were seen as a threat to Christianity. Jews had been evicted from England in the 1290s, and were forced out of many other European states in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. In those few places where they were tolerated, such as Venice, it was under sufferance,...
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Article 5 mins
Introducing environment
Nature & Environment

Introducing environment

...Open University Course Y161 Introducing environment... Introducing environment A short introduction to the album. Unseen impacts Find out more about the consequences of the way you shop. Shopping by car Short car journeys are the most environmentally damaging, yet a quarter of journeys are less than 2 miles. Shopping by bus The more people replace car journeys with buses,...
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Audio 2 hrs 2 mins
Children and young people’s participation
Education & Development

Children and young people’s participation

...Openness and honesty Forum for children to think for themselves while expressing their views – shared decision making Information gathering and sharing Effective interaction among children and with adults involved in projects or activities in a positive way Empowerment for children as individuals and as members of society Spaces for children to have influence on actions...
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Level 3: Advanced 12 hrs
Scottish lecturers take strike action in campaign for fair pay
Society, Politics & Law

Scottish lecturers take strike action in campaign for fair pay

...Open University's Social Sciences courses Lecturers took strike action for an annual cost of living pay rise, for fair pay in other words. The strike followed a ballot with 73.3 % voting for strike action and action short of a strike (ASOS), on a 51.9% turnout (thereby achieving the threshold for industrial action under the Conservative UK Government anti-trade union...
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Article 5 mins
Trees: local heroes in the fight against global climate change
Nature & Environment

Trees: local heroes in the fight against global climate change

...source of carbon storage, water interception, and air quality improvement. Take the UK and Ireland as an example: over 172 million kilograms (172 000 tonnes) of carbon dioxide is stored in just over a million trees surveyed by citizen volunteers, relating to annual economic savings of nearly £11 million (Treezilla, 2022). With an estimated 1.5 billion urban trees in the...
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Article 10 mins
Working with charts, graphs and tables
Science, Maths & Technology

Working with charts, graphs and tables

...Open University by visiting our online prospectus...Working with charts, graphs and tables: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: reflect on existing skills and mathematical history, set up strategies to cope with mathematics and assess which areas need improving understand the following mathematical concepts, through instruction, worked...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs