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Julie Asumu: mother, grandmother, stalwart of Manchester’s Black community, activist and care giver
Education & Development

Julie Asumu: mother, grandmother, stalwart of Manchester’s Black community, activist and care giver

...opener. I was sixteen years old, quite a distance away from my family with all its traditions and customs. In the village, I knew everyone and they knew me but suddenly, I was in a convent school run by white Irish, Reverend Sisters. It was a steep learning curve and often I would yearn for home and all that was familiar. But my parents had put their trust in me and,...
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Money & Business

Academi Arian MSE

...source in the English version of the course. This course was originally created by The Open University with contributions and collaboration from MoneySavingExpert.com. The content unless otherwise stated in the course or in the acknowledgements below (or identifiable as third party content in the course) is owned and/or controlled by The Open University and/or...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Software development for enterprise systems
Digital & Computing

Software development for enterprise systems

...open arrowheads between classes represent the inheritance relation, going from subclass to superclass. They could be verbalised as ‘is a kind of’ (or ‘is-a’). One purpose of inheritance is to allow two different classes to share code. Sometimes this results in the creation of classes that do not represent anything in the problem. They are there simply to enable...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
Introducing vectors for engineering applications
Science, Maths & Technology

Introducing vectors for engineering applications

...Open University course T194 Engineering: mathematics, modelling, applications...Introducing vectors for engineering applications: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: identify if a quantity is a vector represent vectors from engineering problems in an appropriate form model simple engineering systems (such as combining forces) using...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Should we test drugs on pregnant women?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Should we test drugs on pregnant women?

...opened itself up to a barrage of lawsuits.) There are small signs of progress. This autumn, the Council for International Organizations of Medical Sciences released a set of proposed revisions to its influential International Ethical Guidelines for Biomedical Research Involving Human Subjects. Among other changes, the new draft guidelines now emphasise the need for more...
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Jim Skea - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Jim Skea - Stories of Change

...Open University Transcript Stories of Change Project Jim Skea's interview Key RH: = Roger Harrabin, interviewer JS: = Jim Skea, Research Councils UK Energy Strategy Fellow RH: Jim Skea thanks for agreeing to be interviewed by us. Can I start by asking you when, was it that you first got interested in energy? JS: I first got interested in energy way back, it was actually...
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Making sense of art history
History & The Arts

Making sense of art history

...open mind when interpreting art works. It's also important to acknowledge that other people may reach very different conclusions about the meaning of a particular art work. However, even if your own interpretation of the meaning of an art work is different from those of other people, it will still be valid if it is based on evidence about the relationship between...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
The Empties Generation: Why did we hit peak booze in 2004
History & The Arts

The Empties Generation: Why did we hit peak booze in 2004

...open for longer, managers at some large vertical-drinking pubs were reportedly offered bonuses of up to £20,000 if they used sales techniques – upselling singles to doubles, for instance – to exceed revenue targets. All this was happening as the real cost of purchasing alcohol, allowing for inflation and changes in disposable income, fell every year from 1984 to...
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