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Understanding society: families
Education & Development

Understanding society: families

...out of a hundred’. Answer Here are the answers: Single mothers increased the most, from 1 per cent to 9 per cent (that is a change from one in every hundred families in 1971 to nine in every hundred families in 2001). 2 per cent of families were headed by lone fathers. The percentage in 2001 was 22 per cent. So, to summarise, this table provides evidence of an increase...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Women and Workplace Struggles: Scotland 1900-2022
Society, Politics & Law

Women and Workplace Struggles: Scotland 1900-2022

...out more about an exciting new project which is concerned to uncover a largely hidden past: women’s involvement in workplace struggles across Scotland since the early 1900s... [OU Scotland logo Dark blue] [Scottish Union Learn] This collection of learning materials is primarily concerned with exploring women’s (often hidden) role in struggles in the workplace across...
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Article 10 mins
Human Resource Management and EDI
Money & Business

Human Resource Management and EDI

...out what policies an organisation of your choice may have concerning EDI and those two characteristics. Based on your research answer the following questions: What does the organisation do to include people at work with the two characteristics that you chose? If you were appointed as the organisation’s HR director what, if anything, would you do about EDI in the...
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Level 3: Advanced 2 hrs
Icy bodies: Europa and elsewhere
Science, Maths & Technology

Icy bodies: Europa and elsewhere

...out what fraction of the body's volume is made of each is as follows. Let the fraction made of the dense component be x. The fraction made of the light component must then be (1−x). There is a simple equation relating these values: (a) Use Equation 1 to calculate the fraction of Callisto's volume occupied by rock, given that Callisto's average density is 1.83×103 kg...
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Level 2: Intermediate 17 hrs
Inclusive Leadership: Effecting change
Education & Development

Inclusive Leadership: Effecting change

...out of education. The values which underpin this approach can be seen as being broadly associated with leadership that emphasises equitable, horizontal and collective relationships. These values sit in contrast to more bureaucratic and hierarchical forms of organization which can be seen to reinforce wider social biases and injustices in relation to notions such as...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
Intermediate Italian: describing people
Languages

Intermediate Italian: describing people

...out about the Italian author Natalia Ginzburg and have the opportunity to read an extract from one of her novels. Listening to Italian speakers describing people will enable you to practise listening skills and improve your pronunciation. This OpenLearn course is an adapted extract from the Open University course L150 Intermediate Italian: Vivace. An activity in this...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
New York Minutes: What do the NY primaries tell us about the 2016 Presidential election?
Society, Politics & Law

New York Minutes: What do the NY primaries tell us about the 2016 Presidential election?

...out of eight nominating contests. He also enjoyed a large fund-raising advantage over Clinton, outspending her two-to-one in television advertisements in New York. Moreover, as a native of Brooklyn, Sanders had just as much of a claim to the state as Clinton did. But Sanders almost immediately blew his chances. First he gave what was widely seen as a disastrous interview...
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Article 5 mins
Unequal journeys: exploring the contradictions of citizenship and asylum regimes
Society, Politics & Law

Unequal journeys: exploring the contradictions of citizenship and asylum regimes

...This article is published as part of an editorial partnership between openDemocracy, The Open University and Counterpoints Arts to reanimate the Tate Exchange project in which academics and artists together ask who – during a time when the lines marking out citizens, borders and nations are being redrawn, or drawn more starkly – 'we' are, and who gets to decide....
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Article 10 mins