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Exploring the history of prisoner education Badge icon
History & The Arts

Exploring the history of prisoner education

...systems of criminal justice, including prisons. Over the next eight sessions you will encounter examples of education in many different UK prisons, including gaols, bridewells, penitentiaries, local prisons and convict prisons. However, you will keep returning to one: Lincoln Castle Gaol. Now a prison museum, Lincoln Castle Gaol provides both a captivating backdrop and a...
Richard Tol - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Richard Tol - Stories of Change

...think 25-30 years ago. RH: Where did you study? RT: Free University in Amsterdam. RH: And what intrigued you about it at that time that made you want to pursue it? RT: I started more from an environmental angle than from an energy angle. RH: You were an environmentalist at that time? Or maybe you still consider yourself an environmentalist, I don't know. RT:...
Interviews - Writing For Radio
History & The Arts

Interviews - Writing For Radio

...think one of the really exciting things about drama on Radio 4, because of its scale, is you think OK yes we can do the entire works of Zola and we’ll do it, we’ll strip it across a week. So we had 27 episodes of Emil Zola: Blood, Sex and Money. And I can’t think of many other places in the known universe where you could do something of that scale. Including...
Galaxies, stars and planets
Science, Maths & Technology

Galaxies, stars and planets

...System; the Sun and other stars; galaxies and the composition of astronomical objects...This free course, Galaxies, stars and planets, is a general introduction, including scale of the universe from the very large to the very small; orbits and gravity; the Solar System; the Sun and other stars; galaxies and the composition of astronomical objects....Galaxies, stars and...
Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Harry Marshall - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Harry Marshall - Earth in Vision

...think has always sort of stood me in good stead and perhaps even inspired my career choice. He said, ‘You do this by the combination of a pair of binoculars, tweezers and a jam jar. And what you do is you look at the elephant through the wrong end of a pair of binoculars, you pick them up with tweezers and you put them in a jam jar.’ And I’ve always thought that...
Children’s rights
Society, Politics & Law

Children’s rights

...think each makes her case? What points of continuity and change can you identify with nineteenth century concerns with education for citizenship? Finally, what points are made about the implications for welfare provision, of thinking of children as active citizens rather than future citizens? Children's rights part 1 (10.5 minutes 5 MB) Esther Saraga This tape is intended...
Level 2: Intermediate 1 hr
Introducing engineering
Science, Maths & Technology

Introducing engineering

...systems and applications, what do you think are the main considerations for system designers in choosing cell types for particular applications? Answer The application and load to be supplied are the prime consideration, then come the area available for modules and the budget available. You could also include in your answer aspects such as ease of installation, types of...
Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
John Perry Barlow: An Appreciation
Science, Maths & Technology

John Perry Barlow: An Appreciation

...think about digital rights. Here, the OU's Mike Richards introduces a short obituary by John's friend, Cory Doctorow...[John Perry Barlow] Governments of the Industrial World, you weary giants of flesh and steel, I come from Cyberspace, the new home of Mind. On behalf of the future, I ask you of the past to leave us alone. You are not welcome among us. You have no...