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Starting your small business
Money & Business

Starting your small business

...Open University Business School and I run two small limited companies which I set up. In this introduction I want to cover three main things: First, the broad content of each of the sections and explain my thoughts for including the different things I did. Second, I want to tell you what I hope you will get out of studying the course. And finally, I want to give an...
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Economic incentives for countries to decarbonise
Money & Business

Economic incentives for countries to decarbonise

...Open University academics, suggests that this climate policy ‘game’ is beginning to look outdated. OK, so what’s changed? We identified three factors: Our understanding of the economic impacts of climate policy is developing. The traditional modelling approach, still widely used, assumes an ‘optimised equilibrium’. Think of perfect markets, where supply always...
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Ten top tips for writing a novel
History & The Arts

Ten top tips for writing a novel

...Open University's English courses [A cat looking at a laptop ] Just do it. Forget about procrastination. The time is now. Write early in the morning, before you have time to distract yourself with self-doubt and Twitter. Write the first thing that comes into your head, and don’t stop for at least 20 minutes. After that, you are more likely to carry on. Then do the same...
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What does scientific evidence tell us about making our homes energy efficient?
Money & Business

What does scientific evidence tell us about making our homes energy efficient?

...opened or closed will greatly influence this saving on an individual home. Houses come in all sorts of sizes, shapes and levels of efficiency, particularly in the UK, where we are fond of our older, energy inefficient housing stock. We can give guidance based on data, but when it comes down to an individual home there will always be confounding variables that might mean...
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Freeing people caught between life and death
Health, Sports & Psychology

Freeing people caught between life and death

...open and sometimes wander. They can smile, grasp another’s hand, cry, groan or grunt. But they are indifferent to a hand clap, unable to see or to understand speech. Their motions are not purposeful but reflexive. They appear to have shed their memories, emotions and intentions, those qualities that make each one of us an individual. Their minds remain firmly shut....
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Article 15 mins
Agatha Christie and the golden age of detective fiction
History & The Arts

Agatha Christie and the golden age of detective fiction

...Open University course A893 MA English Literature Part 1....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...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
Beginners’ Spanish: food and drink
Languages

Beginners’ Spanish: food and drink

...Open University course L194 Portales: beginners' Spanish...Beginners’ Spanish: food and drink: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: take part in simple exchanges when buying food in shops or at the market in Spain understand basic information about prices and quantities in Spanish order food and drinks in a bar or restaurant using...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Forensic science and fingerprints
Health, Sports & Psychology

Forensic science and fingerprints

...sources and make logical deductions as a result demonstrate an understanding of how forensic scientists operate and use scientific evidence in a legal context...Forensic science and fingerprints: 1 Introduction to fingerprints - In this section you will learn the principles used in classifying and matching fingerprints (often called 'marks'). Question 1 From your general...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs