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Wilberforce
History & The Arts

Wilberforce

...law (‘jurisprudence’). Christianity, however, is much more effective, primarily because its teaching checks inherent human selfishness. Note that Wilberforce takes social inequality for granted. The rich are criticised not for possessing wealth but for using it in excessive showiness or frivolousness rather than in benevolence towards others. While the poor have...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
History of reading: An introduction to reading in the past
History & The Arts

History of reading: An introduction to reading in the past

...laws and law courts, ‘of which there was but a few saved out of the Fire’ (UK RED: 14399). Even if a great many of the references to his everyday reading appear, at first glance, repetitive, when examined more closely it is clear that there is nothing dull about Samuel Pepys’ reading experiences. The entries in the UK RED site capture the great diversity and fine...
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Level 2: Intermediate 1 hr
Introduction to bookkeeping and accounting
Money & Business

Introduction to bookkeeping and accounting

...law. They help to keep control of goods and property owned by a business. They are used as the basis for financial statements. What are financial statements? Financial statements are summaries of accounting records that are drawn up to satisfy the information needs of owners and other stakeholders in the business. These stakeholders are presented with the financial...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Systems engineering: Challenging complexity
Science, Maths & Technology

Systems engineering: Challenging complexity

...Laws, who obtained the figures in answers to parliamentary questions, said low-income families were suffering severe hardship and ministers appeared to be immune to their appeals for help. He said fundamental flaws in the system meant hundreds of thousands of low-income families would still face ‘debt and despair’. To claim child tax credit and working tax credit,...
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Level 3: Advanced 25 hrs
Croeso: Beginners' Welsh
Languages

Croeso: Beginners' Welsh

...Scots Gaelic, it is today spoken by almost 600,000 people in Wales, some 20 per cent of the population. This OpenLearn course provides a sample of level 1 study in Languages. You can learn more about Wales, the Welsh people and the Welsh language in the free course Discovering Wales and Welsh: first steps, which is based on the Open University course LG001 Discovering...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Veiling
History & The Arts

Veiling

...laws...This free course explores controversies associated with the practice of 'veiling' within Islam. The Islamic 'veil', be it in the form of the hijab, niqab, jilbab or burqa (we shall explore this terminology in more detail later), has been at the centre of many different controversies. Many of these controversies can be understood in the context of debates about...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Why are nonhuman animals victims of harm?
Society, Politics & Law

Why are nonhuman animals victims of harm?

...laws governing legally permissible harming of farmed animals, but all ‘livestock’ farming necessitates killing. This is obviously so for ‘meat’, but also applies to killing ‘dairy’ cows and laying hens when they are no longer able to produce enough milk or eggs to be profitably kept alive. These harms include slaughterhouse killing but also legal killing on...
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Level 2: Intermediate 2 hrs
People-centred designing
Science, Maths & Technology

People-centred designing

...laws. So it means, literally, the laws of work. This title reflects the origins of the approach, which lay in attempts to improve the performance efficiency of industrial workers and military personnel, through rational, scientific enquiry into human needs and behaviour. There are two things, therefore, that distinguish ergonomics both from other professional design...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs