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Using voluntary work to get ahead in the job market
Money & Business

Using voluntary work to get ahead in the job market

...Introduction - Any local newspaper describes the latest achievements of volunteers in the community: hospital fund-raising, a wildlife pond created. The advantages to the community are obvious, but this unit explores how engaging in voluntary work can enhance your employment opportunities. It will focus mainly on how voluntary work can improve job prospects, for those...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Can landfills be used to improve biodiversity?
Nature & Environment

Can landfills be used to improve biodiversity?

...management persists. Existing UK landfill regulations prioritise public health and safety alongside environmental compliance. It includes acquiring planning permission and an environmental permit linked to a proposed landfill restoration plan. At the landfill restoration phase, operators place an even layer of material on top of the landfill to create a soil profile, but...
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Article 5 mins
Selling Empire
History & The Arts

Selling Empire

How was Empire marketed? How did British authorities and companies try to persuade people that Empire was a ‘good thing’: worth supporting by showing preference for empire goods, travel, emigration and investment? Read our introduction first for an overview of this collection.
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Article 5 mins
How to find invisible black holes
Science, Maths & Technology

How to find invisible black holes

...project. In citizen science projects, we ask volunteers – you! – for help figuring out things that computers can’t solve for us! Black Hole Hunters is the Open University’s second citizen science project using data from the SuperWASP All-Sky Survey. The first of these projects was SuperWASP Variable Stars, which is searching for regular, repeating changes in the...
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Article 10 mins
Dangoor Education
Science, Maths & Technology

Dangoor Education

...projects that Dangoor Education has sponsored. David Dangoor David Dangoor studied physics at Imperial College London before working as a systems analyst for IBM. He has been a long-term supporter of the OU, and this support is demonstrative of David’s transformative and forward-thinking attitude towards education, providing chances for people – regardless of faith,...
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Article 5 mins
Walking the walk: improving death and dying spaces
Health, Sports & Psychology

Walking the walk: improving death and dying spaces

...project – Walking the Walk – was born out of the need to improve the experience of distressed and grieving carers as their loved ones were approaching the end of life. The project has been undertaken in over 25 care settings and although each environment is different, they all have an opportunity and a responsibility to consider the needs of the carer in terms of the...
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Privatising Thames Water
Money & Business

Privatising Thames Water

...projected revenue streams, in the form of future water bills paid by Thames Water’s customers, to be packaged together, and for bonds to be issued against these revenue streams and then sold to investors. All this with the expectation that projected revenue streams would maintain their value. The bonds bought by investors were ‘backed’ by projected payments from...
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Article 10 mins
Impossible Peace 2: The bunker in the peace
OpenLearn Ireland

Impossible Peace 2: The bunker in the peace

...project have shared some thoughts. [Photograph of Claire Hnna MP and her handwritten statement. See details below for full transcript.]Long before Sinn Féin, the SDLP took steps inside the Policing Board - there from November 2001 at the outset of the 'new beginning'. But what is today's snapshot assessment of the project and process - a question I put to party leader...
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