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Is your social media use impacting your future?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Is your social media use impacting your future?

...accounts. Health and social care professionals must make sure that they are able to justify their actions and decisions, work for the best interests of their service users and work within the confines of their employer policy. This is part of being ‘responsible’ and ‘accountable’ for actions and decisions. It is therefore important to be mindful of your digital...
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Management: Perspectives and Practice
Money & Business

Management: Perspectives and Practice

...Accounting Perspective The Chief Financial Officer at Step PLC gives an example of his role in an important situation. Project Management Perspective A Project Manager shares her experiences of the role and how it differs between industries. Operations Management Perspective A look at the importance of Operations Management and how it's constantly to adapt to the...
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Hero and villain: Robert Clive of the East India Company
History & The Arts

Hero and villain: Robert Clive of the East India Company

...accounts of Clive’s reputation, prioritising analysis by recent historians, and it will explain why his statue was erected when his contemporaries had condemned him. The EIC and General Governor Robert Clive The EIC established the foundations for the British rule of India. At its height, it ruled a territory larger than Britain and was involved in global trade,...
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Online Rights and the Law
Science, Maths & Technology

Online Rights and the Law

...on the net. It also explores who owns the information we publish when we create an online account. This material forms part of the Open University course TU100 My digital life... Why do the media need your help? Online media and freedom of information Does the online Generation have anything to worry about? Are we still legally considered citizens, when we’re online?...
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Video 6 mins
Never trust a pirate: Christiaan Huygens’s Longitude Clocks
History & The Arts

Never trust a pirate: Christiaan Huygens’s Longitude Clocks

...account he has given us of the experiment with the pendulum clocks leaves us in absolutely no doubt as to their success. He left the island of Saint Thomas, which is under the Line, accompanied by four vessels. In order to pick up the correct wind for his return he was obliged to steer towards the West and to sail for six hundred leagues without changing his course, after...
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Article 10 mins
Environmental responsibility
Nature & Environment

Environmental responsibility

...accountability. We demonstrate the necessity of addressing issues of entitlements, rights, obligations and duties if we are to critically and carefully shape our values in doing environmental responsibility and being environmentally responsible. This material is taken from the course: TD866 Environmental responsibility: ethics, policy and action... Environmental...
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Mortgage vs rent
Money & Business

Mortgage vs rent

...account just headline benefits. They’ll say what they bought at years ago and what they can sell for now, they don’t take into account any of the costs involved in maintaining the house over a number of years or the costs of buying and the costs of selling. The Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors, for example, argue quite coherently that people should put aside...
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How Do Jurors Decide When a Witness is Telling the Truth?
Society, Politics & Law

How Do Jurors Decide When a Witness is Telling the Truth?

...accounts of events given by witnesses and try and work out which witness is telling the truth. These judgments are called credibility judgments. They often arise in trials for sexual offences, where the defendant and the complainant agree that sexual intercourse took place, but the defendant claims it was consensual and the complainant asserts that they did not consent....
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