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Community Social Care
Health, Sports & Psychology

Community Social Care

...introduction to this album. Segregated schooling for sight impaired young people Peter White, BBC disability affairs correspondent, revisits the school for visually impaired young people he attended when he was growing up. Mainstream schooling for sight impaired young people Peter White meet two sight impaired students who attend a mainstream school in the Midlands. From...
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Audio 2 hrs 32 mins
How can governments ensure their cybersecurity is strong?
Digital & Computing

How can governments ensure their cybersecurity is strong?

...project manager can tell you that you cannot simultaneously optimize for everything. A device, program or project that tries to do everything for every client in every situation is bound to make major compromises in terms of usability or capability. The same is true with optimizing all elements of a public policy or other complex undertakings like improving cyber security...
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Article 5 mins
How can you turn desert into farmland?
Nature & Environment

How can you turn desert into farmland?

...project to help restore dirt to healthy soils on a vast scale. “This was absolute desert. A few years later the whole thing came back,” he says. “We saw birds, butterflies, insects – the whole ecosystem began to recover. Even after hundreds of years of complete devastation, the seeds were still in the ground and things began to happen very quickly. We did not...
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Article 20 mins
Grad, Div and Curl
Science, Maths & Technology

Grad, Div and Curl

...introduction to this album. Grad Introduction to this gradient vector. What is meant by 'steepness of a path' on a hillside. Div Introduction to the divergence div. Heat flow and temperature distribution inside a modern nuclear reactor. Curl Introduction to this vector operation through the context of modelling water flow in a river. How curl helps in predicting storms....
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Audio 26 mins
Water supply and treatment in the UK
Science, Maths & Technology

Water supply and treatment in the UK

...management including the bodies representing the consumer, the environment, and the suppliers. The scope of the discussion ranges from wastage and emergency treatment to recycling and effluent control. In two bonus audio tracks, OU lecturer Dr Suresh Nesaratnam explains why the case studies were selected and gives an overview of the academic context in which water supply...
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Audio 52 mins
Understanding research with children and young people
Health, Sports & Psychology

Understanding research with children and young people

...project ideas and consider how to go about carrying them out...Welcome to this free OpenLearn course, Understanding research with children and young people, which is an introduction to research with and by Children and young people. It is designed primarily for anyone with an interest in research with and by children and young people, including (but not limited to) those...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
Translation as a career
Languages

Translation as a career

...Project Manager whose task is to coordinate multilingual translation projects (this is a common pathway into the profession). You would also probably specialise in one or more specific types of translation. Some of the more lucrative areas include legal, medical, technical or financial translation but there are many, many possible areas of specialisation. Translation for...
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Level 3: Advanced 4 hrs
Opening up history: religion and politics in the Elizabethan era
History & The Arts

Opening up history: religion and politics in the Elizabethan era

...project. ...Find out more about The Open University's Arts and Humanities courses and qualifications. 1. What first got you interested in history? [Dr Neil Younger]Honestly, I can’t remember a time when I wasn’t fascinated by history. 2. What is your specialist area and how did you end up focusing on this? Like many, I studied the Tudors at A-Level, and loved the...
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Article 5 mins