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National Storytelling Week
History & The Arts

National Storytelling Week

...money? Then try our Start Writing Fiction short course. Taken from an Open University module, you'll gain fantastic skills in order to pen your masterpiece. Want to be the next poet laureate? Fancy crafting a beautiful sonnet or a snappy haiku? Learn more about poetic techniques with these free materials. Don't like writing? Perform your tales Do you prefer the vintage...
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A brief history of advertising
Money & Business

A brief history of advertising

...Business and Management courses In 1477 William Caxton printed what could be described as Britain’s first advert, for a book called The Pyes of Salisbury. But advertising goes back much earlier than Caxton’s days; almost certainly it emerged alongside trading. From simply displaying ones wares outside, to painting murals to entice customers, the roots of advertising...
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Stories from our Black students
Money & Business

Stories from our Black students

...business and management because I’ve set up my own business. It’s small now, but I want it to grow, to give me real financial independence. If that doesn’t work out, well, having a degree could mean a better-paid job. Options are important. Copyright and acknowledgements Copyright OpenLearn publishes all its content using a creative commons licence which allows all...
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UK clothing manufacturing booms, but workers' rights lag behind
Money & Business

UK clothing manufacturing booms, but workers' rights lag behind

...business models come onto the scene, particularly with the growth of online retailers, their actual manufacture has increased significantly. Between 2008-2012, for example, the industry grew by almost 11%. This phenomenon is largely based on the advantages of the Fast Fashion business model. Items are produced in small batches, delivered to stores within ten days and –...
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How Trump tweets
Society, Politics & Law

How Trump tweets

...money than I spent. On Twitter, Trump is behaving like the celebrity he is – cutting out the troublesome middleman to promote himself and his policies without the inconvenience of long-form explanation. The limit of 140 characters is perfect for communicating emotion rather than nuance. The widely respected US academic and media commentator Jay Rosen has it right, in my...
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Stuck in the middle of a pandemic: are international students migrants?
Society, Politics & Law

Stuck in the middle of a pandemic: are international students migrants?

...money they bring into local economies contributes to regional development. Crucially, they also play an important part in knowledge production and circulation – the core business of higher education. They are not consumers but part of the very fabric of higher education, even though this was always ignored. The coronavirus pandemic has starkly exposed this financial...
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Avoid being held to ransom by SamSam
Digital & Computing

Avoid being held to ransom by SamSam

...business licences could not be issued; court warrants could not be validated; and the malware crippled the city’s police computers requiring officers to hand write crime reports. As well as these direct problems, other parts of the city’s infrastructure – such as the wireless network at the gigantic Atlanta International airport – were shut down as a precautionary...
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Socrates - Teacher, Paragon or Chatterbox?
History & The Arts

Socrates - Teacher, Paragon or Chatterbox?

...busy speculating about the nature of reality, developing mathematics, writing histories, or teaching ambitious young men how to get on. For Socrates, though, there was only one question that mattered: how can we live good lives? And by ‘a good life’ he didn’t mean a life packed with power, or money, or fame. He meant an ethically good life: the life of someone who...
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