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10 things that ended in 2006 (when OpenLearn was born)
History & The Arts

10 things that ended in 2006 (when OpenLearn was born)

...Business of Football 2: The Western black rhino species [Black rhinos in crater] The western black rhino (a sub-species of the black rhino) emerged about 8 million years ago. While its population was once the highest out of all the rhino species, there was a 96% population decline between 1970 and 1992 because of widespread poaching. While the western black rhino was...
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Euro 2020: Will England's ruthless academy system show its value?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Euro 2020: Will England's ruthless academy system show its value?

...money they invested into their academies to develop their own players. Furthermore, the youth development system remains far from perfect, and much more needs to be done to protect the rights and welfare of those involved. Yet each England player that starts in the Euro 2020 Championships represents the product of an increasingly sophisticated and highly resourced talent...
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How is Italy reinventing the co-op?
Money & Business

How is Italy reinventing the co-op?

...business sector. The place where idealistic shoppers go to score locally-brewed kombucha and fair-trade quinoa. Or maybe where their great-grandparents sold farm commodities during the hard times of the Depression. Few realize the livelihood of more than a billion people are made secure by cooperatives, according to the United Nations. One hundred million people around...
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Why study languages?
Languages

Why study languages?

...business in a foreign country and a foreign language. Section 3: Studying languages – what it would be like to continue to study languages after compulsory education. Section 4: Language study skills – how to improve your writing and speaking language skills. Section 5: Language and culture – ideas for three short plays or sketches. Section 6: International...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Understanding mental capacity Badge icon
Health, Sports & Psychology

Understanding mental capacity

...money Revisit the section on decision making and search other resources Words: 0 When you have identified your priorities, you will be in a good position to decide on your next steps. These could involve further learning in your personal life or in your current or future workplace...Week 8: Mental capacity: the future: 3 What do you want to do next? - Having reviewed what...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
It's 1892, and the future's bright for gas lighting
Money & Business

It's 1892, and the future's bright for gas lighting

...business was steady, and was going on at the usual average of the past twelve years. During the last twelve years the average increase was 3.43 and for the past year it was 3.76. As to the question of electric light, the directors had gone very carefully into the effect of it upon the consumption of gas, and he proceeded to give the results. The most important electric...
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Who is in the wrong in the Ashley Madison hack?
History & The Arts

Who is in the wrong in the Ashley Madison hack?

...money both out of people’s desire to engage in dishonest behaviour – and out of the guilt and regret that they felt later. It is the latter that the hackers seem particularly worked up about. ALM had a policy that apparently allowed users to delete their profiles, but they charged for it, at a cost of US$19. This produced US$2m of income for the company in 2014. The...
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After the mudslide, what help does Sierra Leone need?
Society, Politics & Law

After the mudslide, what help does Sierra Leone need?

...money. Giving cash to be spent locally allows a country with limited financial resources to support its own people who are there on the ground and available immediately to help. Rather than importing goods from overseas, the means of reconstruction are purchased locally. Money can be misdirected but so can goods and services. All aid must be monitored and evaluated. Embed...
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