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How the OpenLearn employability hub can help you get ahead
Money & Business

How the OpenLearn employability hub can help you get ahead

...writing a CV to improving your resilience at work or getting to grips with digital tools, everything is geared toward making you more confident, capable and career-ready. 6. Perfect for all stages and sectors You don’t need to be a student (or know exactly what you want to do) to get something valuable from the Employability hub. Whether you’re mid-career, a recent...
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Article 5 mins
Learning how to learn
Education & Development

Learning how to learn

...write these down in a notebook, or use word processor, whichever you feel most comfortable with. Find out more about studying with The Open University by visiting our online prospectus...Learning how to learn: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: think about and understand personal ways of learning apply the ideas and activities in this...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Literacy, social justice and inclusive practice
Education & Development

Literacy, social justice and inclusive practice

...write. For text-based literacy to become a self-sustaining activity there has to be the development of a literate environment and culture that fosters social interaction and interaction (see, for example, Elwert, 2001; Goody, 1986; Street, 2013). Literacy learners need to find material that is relevant for them to read; they also need to be immersed in a literate...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Percy Shelley: Polemicist
History & The Arts

Percy Shelley: Polemicist

...writing of Percy Shelley might have a message for the UK right now, believes Mark Summers...Imagine discovering a new set of string quartets by Beethoven or a large canvas by Turner that was thought to be lost. In either case, the mainstream media would have been agog, just as they were for the discovery of an original Shakespeare folio in April 2016. So it’s remarkable...
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Protest Banners: Women's Suffrage
Society, Politics & Law

Protest Banners: Women's Suffrage

...Writing at the OU, and Chair of Y031, the Arts and Languages Access module. I’m researching the work of suffragette medics at the moment, so it’s a real pleasure to be able to focus my thoughts on a suffrage banner today as I talk about popular protest in history. When I hear the word ‘suffragette’, or come across it in print somewhere, I see visual images. The...
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Finding women in Greek literature
History & The Arts

Finding women in Greek literature

...writings of Herodotus. These authors and their surviving texts provide invaluable evidence concerning the culture of ancient Greece. I want to look at a topic which is of great interest to students and scholars of the classical world – namely Greek women – and to consider some of difficulties involved in reading what are essentially literary texts for historical...
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Commemorating Lord Byron on the streets of London
Languages

Commemorating Lord Byron on the streets of London

...writing of Frankenstein in the town. Plaques are frequently placed in locations where the notable person spent but the briefest of times. The Shelleys stayed only two months at the Nelson Square address and just a few weeks at Marchmont Street. If these fleeting residences can be memorialised, perhaps we could go one further and memorialise the street corner from which...
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Sam Selvon, The Lonely Londoners
History & The Arts

Sam Selvon, The Lonely Londoners

...writing, based on subject matter and linguistic register. In the ‘Introduction’ to Windrush Songs, the poet James Berry, born in Jamaica in 1924, describes the situation facing the people of the Caribbean in the late 1940s: None of us wanted to grow up poverty stricken. We didn’t want to grow up without knowledge of the world. We certainly didn’t want to grow up...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs