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Reflecting on Race at The Open University
Education & Development

Reflecting on Race at The Open University

...Law. The late Andrea Levy, an acclaimed author who explored topics related to British Jamaicans, and how they negotiate racial, cultural and national identities, was put forward by the Faculty of Wellbeing, Education and Language Studies. Evelyn Boyd Granville, the second African-American woman to receive a Ph.D. in mathematics from an American University, was put forward...
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Understanding Female Genital Mutilation and its impact across the lifespan podcast
Health, Sports & Psychology

Understanding Female Genital Mutilation and its impact across the lifespan podcast

...law, the police, educators (from primary to higher education), community workers, commissioners, and the wider public. It enables a level of awareness and understanding about this hidden illegal practice, the implications for the people affected, how it can be prevented, key educational requirements for professionals and the gaps in service provision across the UK and...
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How are social workers portrayed in the media?
Languages

How are social workers portrayed in the media?

...Law and Order, 2010] Or was it about him seducing the nanny? [Reign, 2015] It seems that for TV scriptwriters these characters are viewed as female first and professional second. A way forward It’s not all doom and gloom, however. Recently some good initiatives have emerged to encourage a broader range of news interest in the profession. The BASW Social Work Journalism...
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Erzberger: Negotiating the Armistice for Germany
History & The Arts

Erzberger: Negotiating the Armistice for Germany

...law which cleared anyone who had committed a political murder in the Weimar Republic – including Erzberger’s murderers who no longer had to answer for their crime. However, after the Second World War, the two assassins were arrested by the US occupying forces in Heidelberg in 1945, tried in 1946 - and acquitted on the basis of the 1933 law. This decision was met with...
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Europe’s Borders in Question
Society, Politics & Law

Europe’s Borders in Question

...law. But there’s a catch: you first have to reach a member’s territory in order to claim it. You have to be on the ‘inside’ looking out, not on the ‘outside’ looking in. Walls and fences, checkpoints and border controls, are erected for a reason: they place people on the ‘outside’. [A barbed-wire fence dividing Hungary and Serbia] As such, there seems to...
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Who counts as a refugee?
Society, Politics & Law

Who counts as a refugee?

...laws designed to preserve the ‘purity’ of the German ‘race’. Lotte and Wolja knew that their lives could also be threatened in the future. Making a decision to leave was one thing; finding a way of doing it was another. At the time that they met, Lotte was living with her widowed mother in Berlin, planning to join her older sister and husband in Palestine. Meeting...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Corporate fraud and criminal behaviour
Money & Business

Corporate fraud and criminal behaviour

...Law....Corporate fraud and criminal behaviour: Introduction - [Described image] Figure 1 Judge’s gavel When we think of crime, we often imagine individuals acting alone, but did you know some of the most serious offences take place within businesses and organisations that appear legitimate? Corporate fraud and criminal behaviour refer to illegal actions or serious...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Introduction to cyber security: stay safe online Badge icon
Digital & Computing

Introduction to cyber security: stay safe online

...law if you misuse information from Shodan, so don't do it. Having said that, let's try one last search. Programmable logic controllers are found just about everywhere and can be attacked just like any other computer. Shodan allows us to search for PLCs. In this case, I'm going to look at the Siemens PLCs running the same System 7 software as the uranium enrichment plant...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs