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Exploring languages and cultures
Languages

Exploring languages and cultures

...business environment outline the skills and contexts involved in translating and interpreting professions...Exploring languages and cultures: 1 Intercultural encounters - An intercultural encounter takes place when you become aware that you are interacting with a member of a different community whose ways of thinking are quite distinct from your own. These experiences...
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Level 1: Introductory 14 hrs
Are robots about to take jobs from the poor?
Science, Maths & Technology

Are robots about to take jobs from the poor?

...business process outsourcing” – service-industry activity such as data transcription or IT support. “So many international development actors are largely unprepared for the changes underfoot,” Melissa Leach, director of IDS, told the meeting. “The stakes in this, I must emphasise, couldn’t be higher.” Mass unemployment is one; loss of revenue for governments...
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Hacking under your skin?
Digital & Computing

Hacking under your skin?

...a 2015 article summarising the need to secure insulin-delivery devices http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-37551633 - a 2016 article about a security flaw in a Johnson & Johnson insulin pump https://www.wired.com/2015/07/hackers-remotely-kill-jeep-highway/ - 2015 WIRED article about a vulnerability that would allow remote control of a Jeep Cherokee...
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Light: Wave-particle duality
Science, Maths & Technology

Light: Wave-particle duality

...busy helping to translate the hieroglyphs on the Rosetta Stone, investigating elasticity, describing how colour vision works, or proposing a new universal phonetic alphabet, Young was experimenting with the diffraction of light by narrow apertures and the interference of light due to reflection by thin films. His observations of coloured fringes in these experiments...
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Article 10 mins
The inaugural lecture of Professor Edoardo Ongaro, Professor of Public Management
Miscellaneous

The inaugural lecture of Professor Edoardo Ongaro, Professor of Public Management

...Business and Law at The Open University (OU). Previously he held positions at Northumbria University, as Professor of International Public Services Management, and SDA Bocconi School of Management and Bocconi University, where he still serves as Visiting Professor of Management of International and Supranational Organizations. He is President of the European Group for...
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Should the Tories be worried about their low membership numbers?
Society, Politics & Law

Should the Tories be worried about their low membership numbers?

...business, ignoring opinion pollsters and merely pausing for a few seconds to cast a sensible vote every five years. The only political party they will consider joining is Labour, in order to saddle it with an unelectable leader. All this might be true, but even this hard-headed organisation must be slightly disconcerted by current trends. For example, in the recent open...
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Daisy Main
Miscellaneous

Daisy Main

...business culture essentials’ - actually prepared me for my degree’s content!’ She even completed an introductory nature and environment course: ‘A family member suggested I try something completely out of my realm of interest, so I chose ‘Introducing mammals’, and I ended up loving it! Will I use it in the future? Probably not, but at least I know about...
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Embarking on a career in cyber security
Digital & Computing

Embarking on a career in cyber security

...to communicate their findings to a variety of audiences, whether this be a corporate boardroom or a court of law. The Open University module Digital Forensics covers how to conduct investigations to correctly gather, analyse and present digital evidence to both business and legal audiences. This module is part of the MSc in Computing - Information Security and Forensics....
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