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Open Corporates
Society, Politics & Law

Open Corporates

...world...[Open Corporates logo] OpenCorporates is bringing together corporate data and government data relating to companies and exists to make this information more accessible, more discoverable, and more usable, and thus give citizens, community groups, journalists, other companies, and society as a whole the ability to understand, monitor and regulate them. It was...
An introduction to grammar
Languages

An introduction to grammar

...get things done? This video looks at how a functional approach to grammar can help us to understand professional practice in a range of contexts, for example call centres, education, journalism and subtitling. It also looks at how computer software can be used to analyse language in context in the real world. Find out more about the course: Exploring English Grammar...
Secret History of Sterilisation
Health, Sports & Psychology

Secret History of Sterilisation

...world in the early 20th century as a solution to the ‘problem of mental deficiency’. In some countries, dark, forbidding institutions enforced sterilisations and actively prevented social and sexual activity among residents. But as we hear in this moving programme presented by Liz Tilley from The Open University, the reasons behind decisions to sterilise these women...
Women in Law
Society, Politics & Law

Women in Law

...working conditions at the top of the legal world simply not appeal to women in the profession? Gary Slapper, Professor of Law at The Open University discusses the issues with Frances Gibb, Legal Editor of The Times... Women in Law Professor Gary Slapper of The Open University, and Frances Gibb, Legal Editor of The Times discuss the role of women in the legal profession....
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Welfare, crime and society
Society, Politics & Law

Welfare, crime and society

...world, raising issues of social justice, security and community. The tracks on this album explore how forms and practices of surveillance reveal the entanglements between welfare, crime and society and the tensions and overlaps between policies aimed at delivering social welfare and those intended to control crime. The material is drawn from the course DD208 Welfare,...
Exploring babies' and young children's development and learning
Education & Development

Exploring babies' and young children's development and learning

...worlds around them, and ways that children develop their skills of thinking and learning. The speakers are Professors Rudolph Schaffer, Michael Cole, Alison Garton, Vasu Reddy and Dr Suzanne Zeedyk. The interviews are introduced and contextualised by Dr Dorothy Faulkner and Professor David Messer of The Open University. The material forms part of The Open University...
The dot.com bubble
Society, Politics & Law

The dot.com bubble

...world... The dot.com bubble A short introduction to this album What are economic bubbles? Bubbles are when a products value continues to rise beyond its true value. But what happens when the bubble inevitably bursts? Types of economic bubbles Intrinsic bubbles, informational bubbles, classic bubbles and fads are all the results of over valued products. The dot.com boom...
Herbal medicine
Health, Sports & Psychology

Herbal medicine

...world and throughout history have used some form of herbal medicine. Certainly plants which are still used as medicines have been found in ancient burial sites around the world – the oldest may be the grave of a Neanderthal man from (what is now) Northern Iraq estimated to be 60,000 years old. Currently, worldwide, most medicines are still derived from plant sources....