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Social marketing
Money & Business

Social marketing

...Open University course B324 Marketing and society...Social marketing: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: describe and explain the meaning and nature of social marketing analyse social marketing problems and suggest ways of solving these recognise the range of stakeholders involved in social marketing programmes and their role as target...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
Introduction to UK immigration law and becoming an immigration adviser
Society, Politics & Law

Introduction to UK immigration law and becoming an immigration adviser

...Open University and HJT Training professionals, who specialise in immigration law. It is divided into 5 sessions of study with each session covering a specific topic which is relevant to immigration law and advice. It provides links to the relevant sources of law on that topic. All teaching materials are delivered online and include opportunities for you to self-assess...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
Discovering development management
Money & Business

Discovering development management

...Open University course T878 Capacities for managing development...Discovering development management: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: write a working definition of development management apply the complexity, emergence, difference (CoDE) framework to selected cases of development management develop some initial judgements of...
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Level 3: Advanced 3 hrs
Support for you and your mental health
Health, Sports & Psychology

Support for you and your mental health

...opening up. This is sometimes due to the stigma or fear surrounding mental health. Time to Change Wales tackles this stigma and acknowledge that though many of us are likely to be affected by mental health problems discussing mental illness can still be considered a taboo. Time to Change Champions lead the campaign and you may find it useful to read their stories and how...
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Article 10 mins
The Lee Jeans Occupation, Greenock, 1981
Society, Politics & Law

The Lee Jeans Occupation, Greenock, 1981

...Open University's Social Sciences courses Between February and August 1981, the mostly women workers at Greenock’s Lee Jeans factory defied management intentions to close the plant. At a time when female unemployment in Greenock was 50% higher than in Scotland as a whole, the women argued that their factory was feasible and that corporate greed was the reason for...
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Article 10 mins
Decolonisation and Higher Education: Closing the Degree Awarding Gap
Education & Development

Decolonisation and Higher Education: Closing the Degree Awarding Gap

...Open University, 2020) has discussed the challenges of achieving diversity within higher education: ‘I don’t think a lot of the time that those structures are then modified to support the inclusion…a lot of times it’s tokenistic’. She adds that ‘a lot of times you talk about inclusion as bringing someone to the table. And the thing is who decides what the...
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Article 10 mins
60 second adventures: Behind the scenes
Science, Maths & Technology

60 second adventures: Behind the scenes

...Open University's Open degree. Narrated by David Mitchell, the 60 Second Adventures animation series began in 2011 with ’60 Second Adventures in Thought’ exploring paradoxes and thought experiments such as The Grandfather paradox and Schrodinger’s Cat. Since then the series has explored economics, religion, astronomy and now microgravity. This short video features...
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Video 5 mins
Living on the Moon
Science, Maths & Technology

Living on the Moon

...Open University contribute to a video by the Royal Society, explaining how to survive on the Moon for more than a couple of days...Watch Professor Brian Cox introduce the science behind surviving on the Moon, plus the views of Mahesh Anand and Tara Hayden of The Open University about the possibility of a sustained human presence on the Moon, facilitated by key recent...
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Video 10 mins