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EPQs: why give a presentation?
Education & Development

EPQs: why give a presentation?

...University, and use the bingo card below to identify some of the common mistakes made in presentations. Table 2 Presentation bingo Problems starting presentation Too many slides for the time available Yellow writing on bright blue background Entire slide filled with equations Ummm... err... so... Speaker runs out of time Jargon... jargon... acronyms Speaker forgets to use...
Microbes – friend or foe?
Nature & Environment

Microbes – friend or foe?

...University course SG071 Learn about microbes...Microbes – friend or foe?: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: demonstrate general knowledge and understanding of some of the basic facts, language, concepts and principles relating to microbiology and its importance and applications in biological and health sciences and environmental...
Level 1: Introductory 2 hrs
‘Where do you really come from?’ How this enquiry can add insult to injury
Education & Development

‘Where do you really come from?’ How this enquiry can add insult to injury

...University's Social Sciences courses. What makes asking people from Black and minority ethnic communities about their origin so offensive? In recent years this basic expression of interest seems to have been behind a host of conflict, upset and tumultuous argument. Some say the question is simply a harmless expression of curiosity, a basic demonstration of interest borne...
Exploring a Romano-African city: Thugga
History & The Arts

Exploring a Romano-African city: Thugga

...University by visiting our online prospectus. If you are new to university study, you may be interested in our Access Courses or Certificates. What’s new from OpenLearn? Sign up to our newsletter or view a sample. For reference, full URLs to pages listed above: OpenLearn – www.open.edu/ openlearn/ free-courses Visiting our online prospectus – www.open.ac.uk/ courses...
Fundamentals of accounting
Money & Business

Fundamentals of accounting

...University – www.open.edu/ openlearn/ free-courses...Week 3: Double-entry accounting: Introduction - As you learned in Week 1, accounting is a process that involves: the systematic recording of all relevant financial transactions and events classifying, interpreting, summarising and reporting such bookkeeping data the production of useful information from that data and...
Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
A journey through two Englands
History & The Arts

A journey through two Englands

...universe, and saw his leaders plunging into the abyss. Still he would soon relapse from the high prophetic strain to the familiar one of narrative. He knew whose the land was wherever he drove; what noblemen had half-ruined themselves by gambling; who made handsome returns of rent; and who was at daggers-drawn with his eldest son. He perhaps remembered the fathers of...
Bob Dylan as Nobel Laureate: Two reactions
History & The Arts

Bob Dylan as Nobel Laureate: Two reactions

...universal literary fame would never unbend far enough to award the Prize to a song-writer. Especially a successful one. And there’s the question of how Dylan, with his twin aversion to formal dress and formal speeches, would react to receiving the Nobel. The reason why Dylan deserves the Nobel has nothing to do with his popularity, or the fact that his works are...
Scottish nurses striking out
Society, Politics & Law

Scottish nurses striking out

...University's History and Social Sciences courses. Setting the scene On 12 August 2022, Scotland’s highest circulation broadsheet newspaper, The Herald, carried a headline exclaiming ‘Nurses set to strike for first time in their history’. While the words made an eye-catching headline, they failed to recognise, and in effect denied, the history of industrial action by...