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Applying your community engagement skills
Society, Politics & Law

Applying your community engagement skills

...working with others and decision-making, in the context of policing within a community. We advise strongly that you do not start this course until you have completed the other 9 courses. This last course is to be used to bring all of these ideas together and partly text your knowledge by making you apply those skills in a practical way to a given situation. You take the...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Human Resource Management and EDI
Money & Business

Human Resource Management and EDI

...work is governed by the Equality Act 2010, which is a development of the Equal Pay Act 1970, the Sex Discrimination Act 1975 and the Race Relations Act 1976. In the UK, implementation of the EqA 2010 is overseen and monitored by the statutory body the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC), established in 2007. Enforcement of this Commission’s mandate varies, but...
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Level 3: Advanced 2 hrs
Meet the OU experts behind 'Hospital'
Health, Sports & Psychology

Meet the OU experts behind 'Hospital'

...working within Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust and were able to showcase the impact of decision making as a result of increasing healthcare demands on staff and patient care interventions at all levels of the organisation. Over six episodes you will see staff working within highly stressed environments – often having to manage resource demands that don’t stretch...
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Article 10 mins
Why Brexit would be bad for employment rights
Society, Politics & Law

Why Brexit would be bad for employment rights

...work, no right to a daily rest period, no laws to prevent employers discriminating against workers who are disabled or who have particular religious beliefs, and no right for employees to take time off work to look after a sick child. This was the UK before the New Labour government was elected in 1997. Since then a substantial number of employment rights have been...
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Article 10 mins
Introduction to making political and social change
Society, Politics & Law

Introduction to making political and social change

...workings of the UK political institutions and the role they have in making change, as well as other ways of making change. Identify and be able to apply in real-life settings some of the key skills and knowledge needed to make change...Introduction to making political and social change: 1 Becoming a changemaker - We live at a time of multiple challenges – environmental,...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
The 1912 Ryedale Glove Factory Strike, Dumfries
Society, Politics & Law

The 1912 Ryedale Glove Factory Strike, Dumfries

...working at the Ryedale Glove Factory went on strike and were victorious against an established national employer. This article explains more about the strike and outcomes...Find out about The Open University's Social Sciences courses Background The town of Dumfries in South West Scotland has an industrial heritage that belies its image today as primarily a market town,...
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Article 10 mins
David Bowie faces the last taboo
History & The Arts

David Bowie faces the last taboo

...work showed him taking on the taboo of death with the vigour he'd used to break barriers of gender and identity, says Elizabeth Tilley...Listening last night to Blackstar – David Bowie’s final album, released just three days before his death - I was struck by its beauty, but also its pace and freneticism. These tracks, like all those that preceded them, had something...
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Article 5 mins
Music in Code
History & The Arts

Music in Code

...works, producing specific musical effects such as vibrato and trills. Musical Box The manufacture and repertoire of a 19th century cylinder musical box. Pin Disk Musical Box Experts compare disc versus cylinder design. The Paper Roll: Reiterating Piano The piano melodica. How book music is made, how the mechanism works and how to add expression to the music. The Paper...
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Audio 29 mins