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International Management
Money & Business

International Management

...Open University course B848 Leadership and management in intercultural contexts... Introduction to International Management In this series we are going to take a look at three different perspectives on managing across cultures. In each we will hear from experienced international managers and from academics around the world who have studied these problems. Cultural...
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Design and Designing
Science, Maths & Technology

Design and Designing

...Open University course T211 Design and designing... Design and designing A short introduction to this album Introduction to drawing Controlling fingers and wrist to draw shapes and letters. Shading and toning Using pencil shading to show tone. Modeling a chair How to make a cardboard model of a chair from a cereal carton. Making a cd case How to make a CD case using...
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What were Victorian pauper's graves like?
History & The Arts

What were Victorian pauper's graves like?

...opened for about four weeks. The grave was what is called a pauper's grave. Such graves as these were kept open until there 17 or 18 bodies interred in them; there was only the body of a still-born infant in the one in question. It was not the custom to put any earth between the coffins in those graves, except in case where the persons died of contagious diseases and in...
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Rathlin Island and Lough Neagh
OpenLearn Ireland

Rathlin Island and Lough Neagh

...open ledges, like the top of the stack here, and they like to gather in large groups to defend their eggs and young. And then we’ve got puffins. Puffins are burrowing birds and nest down below on the grassy bank here, where they can burrow into the earth. DARRYL GRIMASON: See the lovely wee orange legs on them. ALISON MCFAUL: Lots of them down there. There’s one or...
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An introduction to European crime fiction since 1945
Health, Sports & Psychology

An introduction to European crime fiction since 1945

...Open University's Languages, cultures and communication courses. [An image of a top hat and phrase by Hercule Poirot]In 2020, crime fiction overtook general and children’s fiction to become the best-selling literary genre in Britain (The Guardian, 2020). In 2021, two novels from Richard Osman’s Thursday Murder Club series occupied first and fourth place in the UK’s...
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After the First World War: the 1919 Egyptian Revolution
History & The Arts

After the First World War: the 1919 Egyptian Revolution

...Open University's History courses and qualifications [Nationalists demonstrating in Cairo in march 1919] Egyptian nationalists demonstrating in Cairo, March 1919 In 2011, millions tuned in to watch extraordinary scenes of enormous demonstrations in the centre of Cairo against the rule of President Hosni Mubarak, who was forced to relinquish power. The Egyptian Revolution...
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Citational politics
Education & Development

Citational politics

...Open University’s Research Code of Practice offers guidance on Authorship, Acknowledgement and Attribution. It defines authorship as being directly involved in the creation of a work (Open University, Research Code of Practice, p. 18) by: Being solely responsible for, or making a significant contribution to, the conception/design of the project, or the collection,...
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Article 20 mins
Integrated safety, health and environmental management: An introduction
Digital & Computing

Integrated safety, health and environmental management: An introduction

...Journal, 320, March 18 2000. © 2000, BMJ Publishing Group Ltd. Alessandro Cani [Details correct as of 28 March 2011] Don't miss out: If reading this text has inspired you to learn more, you may be interested in joining the millions of people who discover our free learning resources and qualifications by visiting The Open University - www.open.edu/ openlearn/ free-courses...
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Level 3: Advanced 15 hrs