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The Eagle has landed within the OpenLearn community
Money & Business

The Eagle has landed within the OpenLearn community

...them a facilitated environment to collaborate and innovate. Want to join our vibrant community, or explore what Barclays Eagle Labs have to offer? Connect with us though the Open University dedicated webpage and join our network of UK entrepreneurs. Whether you’re a start-up, scaleup, corporate business or private investor, we could support your business growth journey....
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Religious literacy for Further education: A social justice approach
History & The Arts

Religious literacy for Further education: A social justice approach

...Open University research project titled ‘Religious Literacy for FE (Further education): A Social Justice Approach’, funded by St Peter’s Saltley Trust. The objective of the project was to develop assets to support the teaching of religious literacy in FE, with a particular focus on challenging the stereotypes, cliches and prejudices sometimes associated with...
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What is technology?
Science, Maths & Technology

What is technology?

...Open University Computing and IT qualifications. The role and impact of technology in both our personal and working lives is ever growing. Understanding how people shape technology and how technology shapes people's interactions with each other and the natural world is important - not only for those who research, develop and implement new technologies, but also for all...
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5 tried-and-tested study tips for dyslexic students
Education & Development

5 tried-and-tested study tips for dyslexic students

...too easy to try and find all the solutions yourself but you don’t have to. Talking about the challenges you face with your tutor or Student Support Team can help you discover solutions that are tailored to your needs. If you are an Open University student, there are also specialist services that can offer extra guidance if you need it, so don’t hesitate to reach out....
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Rastafari in Israel
History & The Arts

Rastafari in Israel

...Open University, explains her research on diasporic and transnational contexts of Rastafari in this article...My doctoral research focuses on diasporic and transnational contexts of Rastafari. I am interested in de-essentialising Rastafari, and over the next year or so I will be conducting fieldwork in Rome and London with different Rasta communities and groups. I see my...
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The Irish Gothic in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries
OpenLearn Ireland

The Irish Gothic in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries

...course of the century and, in many ways, Gothic writing developed in response to it. The political instability of previous centuries also continued to haunt Irish society and contributed to something of a national identity crisis. As Kevin Whelan puts it, “In Ireland the appeal to the past inevitably worried old wounds on which the scar tissue had never fully...
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Article 45 mins
The secret history of teenage bedrooms
Education & Development

The secret history of teenage bedrooms

...course when you flip forward to the ‘70s Wilson had a bit of a notorious nervous breakdown where he spent a good 10 years, this is when he’s an adult mind you, but spent a good 10 years just in his room watching TV, eating junk food and snorting cocaine. So his own experiences in that song kind of captured the contradictory nature… Laurie Taylor: The two functions...
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The Armistice in Fiction: Ford Madox Ford’s Parade’s End
History & The Arts

The Armistice in Fiction: Ford Madox Ford’s Parade’s End

...opens and closes the action of this novel, and the climax it provides was felt to be impressive enough for more than one later critic to suggest Ford should have ended his series there, with volume 3. (One influential edition of the work, Graham Greene’s for the Bodley Head in 1963, made the dramatic decision to do just that – using Ford’s occasional doubts about...
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