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The poetry of Sorley MacLean
History & The Arts

The poetry of Sorley MacLean

...centre of gravity of poetry publishing had occurred, with Carcanet and Bloodaxe, based in northern English cities, accounting for a very high proportion of acclaimed new books. The day when one major Scottish writer, Hugh MacDiarmid, languished out of print for years on end, and another, Edwin Muir, relied on the recognition of his quality by T.S. Eliot at Faber, were...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Dominic Weston - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Dominic Weston - Earth in Vision

...researched things out of Life on Earth and present stuff from that. And then I got involved in birdwatching, a member of the YOC… so the Young Ornithologists Club and then also the XYZ Club, which was Exceptional Young Zoologists, which was an offshoot from the Zoological Society of London, because I lived in Greater London, so I’d get free tickets to go to Whipsnade...
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Business ethics
History & The Arts

Business ethics

...research. So you can imagine the different people on that committee going different ways on those two conditions. One may say “competent to teach ethics”, and the other might say “no, not at all”. So you can imagine when you take the votes they’ll be a majority but not unanimity in favour of this person actually being competent to teach ethics, a different...
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The Legacy of Nuclear Power: Part 1
Nature & Environment

The Legacy of Nuclear Power: Part 1

...researched over many years, looking at four countries and four areas in particular and you allude to one of these which is the Hanford site in the United States. The Hanford site has fascinated me for more than twenty-five years now. I visited it several times. I've talked to the people there, particularly those involved with the site itself. It’s a very peripheral...
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Using visualisation in maths teaching
Education & Development

Using visualisation in maths teaching

...Children, Sevenoaks, Hodder and Stoughton. The Open University (1988) ME234 Using Mathematical Thinking, Block 1 Investigating Mathematics, Unit 2 Working Mathematically, Milton Keynes, The Open University...Using visualisation in maths teaching: Acknowledgements - This course was prepared for TeachandLearn.net by Ronnie Goldstein and Alan Bloomfield. Ronnie Goldstein was...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Hybrid working: change management
Money & Business

Hybrid working: change management

...centred approach to change, by putting the needs of people at the heart of your initiative and considering more sustainable ways of working. We focus on functional and operational changes that help organisations deliver their strategies, rather than organisational changes, as these tend to be the change initiatives that most members of an organisation frequently...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
The Roman Empire: introducing some key terms
History & The Arts

The Roman Empire: introducing some key terms

...centre - the emperor - exercising his powers in Rome and across the provinces. But what about the rest of Italy? How did the emergence of Rome’s empire affect the life-style of places on the Italian peninsula? What other cultural influences impacted on their “Roman” identity? Further a field the Roman empire encountered the long-established culture of Greece, whose...
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Level 3: Advanced 14 hrs
Political ordering
Society, Politics & Law

Political ordering

...research, producing courses and marking exam papers. The Open University also presents itself to its employees, its students and the wider society through its official brand, which appears on internal and external communications, and through its advertising in various media. But The Open University also gives the impression that it is more than the sum of all these parts....
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs