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Presenting information
Digital & Computing

Presenting information

...out basic operations and calculate percentages. You will then learn how to use charts and tables to represent and interpret information...Tables and charts are a great way to present numerical information in a clear and concise form. This free course, Presenting information, explains how to use the Windows calculator to carry out basic operations and calculate...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
Has Jeremy Corbyn changed Prime Ministers Questions for the better?
Society, Politics & Law

Has Jeremy Corbyn changed Prime Ministers Questions for the better?

...out of his comfort zone. It has been said that questions in this famously rowdy parliamentary session fall into three categories – standard questions that can be answered in a straightforward way, unanswerable questions designed deliberately to provoke discomfort or evasion, and helpful questions usually asked from the government backbenches to open an opportunity for...
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French Presidential Election: What have we learned from the First Round?
Society, Politics & Law

French Presidential Election: What have we learned from the First Round?

...out in favour of Macron. It may even be that, in due course, once the allegations against him are out of the way and show him to be innocent, Fillon might even foresee a situation where he and other figures from the right might have a role to play between now and 2022. While Fillon demonstrated both restraint and dignity, throughout the evening Mélenchon and his camp...
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Why the Duke of Edinburgh's retirement was a masterclass in media management
History & The Arts

Why the Duke of Edinburgh's retirement was a masterclass in media management

...out to the Press Association at the exact moment a footman in mourning clothes pins a notice to the gates of Buckingham Palace. The implication here is that this news is so momentous, a breaking news tweet would be discourteous. What happened with the announcement of Philip’s retirement is the exact same sentiment: Buckingham Palace manipulated the news cycle by making...
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What does President Macron mean for Brexit?
Society, Politics & Law

What does President Macron mean for Brexit?

...Out referendum – inevitably carries a large exit bill. In other words, the new French President can be expected to support a hard line on this aspect of the Article 50 negotiations. Here France will be singing from the same hymn sheet as Germany: both Merkel and her rival for the German chancellorship, Martin Schulz, insist that a settlement of the UK’s liabilities to...
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Review: Europe Reset
Society, Politics & Law

Review: Europe Reset

...out the details of the poly-crisis in the first chapter, Youngs discusses the ‘false solutions’ offered by others in the next, which all essentially boil down to having more European integration or less of it. Instead, Youngs states, we need ‘qualitatively new ideas for reshaping the European project’. In the third chapter, Youngs focuses in more depth on...
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Citizen science and the data avalanche
Science, Maths & Technology

Citizen science and the data avalanche

...out that humans are still often much better than AI at classification tasks. This has led to a new way of doing science: crowdsourcing, with the help of citizen science volunteers. This gives members of the public genuine and valuable participation in scientific discovery, and it turns out that there is a huge public appetite for taking part. You may be surprised to find...
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Early reflections from Glasgow on COP26
Nature & Environment

Early reflections from Glasgow on COP26

...out more about The Open University’s Environment qualifications. Putting a World Leaders Summit at the start of COP26 is inspirational and electrifying. It provides a much-needed shot in the arm to the COVID-delayed multilateral process of sorting out the details of the UNFCCC process (including the Meeting of the Parties for the Kyoto Protocol and the Paris Agreements,...
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