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Chelsea Manning: An OpenLearn reading list
Society, Politics & Law

Chelsea Manning: An OpenLearn reading list

...course on Cybersecurity: Chelsea Manning (born Bradley Manning) was a United States Army soldier who leaked confidential information, including 250,000 United States diplomatic messages and 500,000 United States Army reports as well as videos of military action in Iraq, to the WikiLeaks website. Manning obtained copies of classified materials during service in Iraq in...
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What You Need to Know About Psychometrics
Health, Sports & Psychology

What You Need to Know About Psychometrics

...course of action from a list of options will be asked to choose most and least effective answer; or rate possible answers for effectiveness; or choose one most practical course of action, so must read the instructions carefully! commonly used for many job roles, even at entry-level, sometimes within the online application form/process itself Personality tests evaluates...
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Did Harry Potter’s extracurricular activities land him a job at the Ministry of Magic?
Education & Development

Did Harry Potter’s extracurricular activities land him a job at the Ministry of Magic?

...the qualifications he obtained at Hogwarts. Being able to articulate his experiences outside school are what makes Harry stand out to his employer, making him such a great example of employability. This article was written with significant input from Martha (aged 11) and Flora (aged 7). Want to be as employable as Harry Potter? Try our FREE courses and explainer videos...
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Business Bursts: Supply chain
Health, Sports & Psychology

Business Bursts: Supply chain

...course we can’t hold that volume of stock on site; we can’t react from our stores in order to be able to build that variety, our suppliers have to help us. They have to be just as flexible as we are, being able to supply to our customer requirements in the order that we pull it. That means that they have to be able to call different production schedules and different...
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Is ‘fake news’ still a problem for society?
Society, Politics & Law

Is ‘fake news’ still a problem for society?

...course, that Trumpism doesn’t make an unexpected come-back at some stage. But even if the term itself does dwindle in popularity, what isn’t likely to diminish is the impact of the phenomenon it originally described. The issues of how reliable information gets pushed out by false information, of how news reporting can be corrupted by propaganda, of how we manage the...
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Not intervening as a form of care
Health, Sports & Psychology

Not intervening as a form of care

...course of action, or broader aspects of care. We focused on palliative care teams in a London hospital and surrounding community who look after people who are dying or living with serious illness. These teams are frequently brought in when other medical specialists feel there is “nothing more” they can offer, especially when the patient is nearing the end of their...
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This Student Life
OpenLearn Ireland

This Student Life

...course? What are the challenges of being a modern student? This Student Life is a drama following three students through their experiences on DD102. Each episode takes a look at life from the perspective of contemporary students studying social sciences... Welcome to the OU Our three students are preparing to enter the world of study. A journey begins Studying gets...
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Nine days' wonder in York
History & The Arts

Nine days' wonder in York

...course, the rooks were helping, or at least bossing. II We expected to stay certainly a week, and perhaps two weeks, in York, and our luck with railway hotels had been so smiling elsewhere that we had no other mind than to spend the time at the house into which we all but stepped from our train. But we had reckoned without our host, as he was represented by one of a...
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