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Social science and participation
Society, Politics & Law

Social science and participation

...energy-saving measures in support of the environment. Social consumption is highest among pensioners. Neighbourhood participation is more closely related to age, increasing noticeably among people aged 50 and above. Differences in participation relating to ethnicity are small. English respondents tend to have the lowest neighbouring scores. Welsh respondents average the...
Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Project management: the start of the project journey
Money & Business

Project management: the start of the project journey

...energy, maintenance, repair and replacement) and, ultimately, decommissioning costs are included. Requirements Generally speaking, a requirement identifies an expression of need, demand or obligation. An essential factor to ensure the quality of any project or any deliverable or product is to get the requirements for it right. If the requirements are not clearly and...
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Money & Business

MSE’s Academy of Money

...energy prices and exacerbated by the rising cost of other essentials has made it even more important to take a tight grip of your personal finances. This course will enable you do that. Transcript Enrolling on the course will give you the opportunity to earn an Open University digital badge – this, together with the OpenLearn statement of participation, constitute the...
Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
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Society, Politics & Law

Introducing Black leadership

...energy start to slip. As you will have noticed from the six aspects of the definition, leadership is not a solitary pursuit, but involves people supporting one another to generate the agency to lead. This activity will begin to explore that process. Activity 1 The agency to lead Timing: Allow around 15 minutes Watch the following interview clip with Jason Sinclair, where...
Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
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Society, Politics & Law

Advancing Black leadership

...energy and a critical edge to leadership practice. History is usually told through the eyes of the powerful, those who amass the greatest economic and cultural power, and there is no greater example of this than the ways in which official history has been warped to normalise – or forget – the horrors and legacies of colonial rule globally. [Described image] Figure 1...
Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Introducing environmental decision making
Nature & Environment

Introducing environmental decision making

...energy (electricity and gas)?’, I seem to run into all four of the information constraints March refers to, just because I make a wide range of choices in this area. I have many electrical appliances (fridge, cooker, television, etc.), and both electric and gas heating, so deciding what and how to change, to reduce my overall use of energy, is a fairly complex...
History of reading tutorial 3: Famous writers and their reading - Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Vernon Lee
History & The Arts

History of reading tutorial 3: Famous writers and their reading - Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Vernon Lee

...energy, all the sublimity of modern verse is centered in those lines’. (UK RED: 15976) Only two years after writing this letter, Elizabeth Barrett Browning would have her first work of poetry published. Finally, her childhood reading reveals the paucity of previous women poets as role models. While 15 of the 50 books in the search results are by women, only one volume...
Crimes of the powerful
Society, Politics & Law

Crimes of the powerful

...energy. They lose their – their drive – their ability to carry these things forward. The plant was unionised so certainly conditions in the plant, inside the plant did appear to – did appear to improve until last December 2010 when just before Christmas two workers were killed inside the plant. The spotlight went back on to the plant and it was closed down...
Level 3: Advanced 2 hrs