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Science, Maths & Technology

Returning to STEM

...maths. The Open University has produced this course because we know there are many people, women and men, who are already qualified or experienced in STEM, but not working in these sectors. I left school at 16 with five O levels. At 25, I was a single parent with three kids, wondering how on Earth I was going to earn enough money to look after my children as they grew up....
Level 3: Advanced 24 hrs
Surfaces
Science, Maths & Technology

Surfaces

...DE}, faces {1, 2, 3, 4}. Faces 1 and 2 meet at the edge AE and at vertices A and E. Faces 1 and 3 meet at vertex E only. Faces 1 and 4 meet at edge DE and at vertices D and E. Face 3 has 3 edges (BC, BE, CE) and 3 vertices (B, C and E). We noted earlier that the endpoints of an edge may coincide. This means that an edge can meet itself, as is illustrated by the circular...
Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
Discovering disorder: young people and delinquency
Society, Politics & Law

Discovering disorder: young people and delinquency

...de-criminalised’ them in 1967). Second, though, some people performing those behaviours are identified and labelled as deviant (or criminal), but perhaps not everyone who acts in these ways is identified and labelled. Becker also argued that labels could have powerful consequences. Drawing on the social interactionist approach in social psychology (from the work of...
Capacity and demand management
Society, Politics & Law

Capacity and demand management

...de Janeiro, with 1 million people attending over the extended holiday weekend. The carnival has about 40,000 volunteers helping out and usually about 9,000 police. The carnival creates a huge surge in demand for both private and public services. In a normal year about 270 licensed food, drink and merchandise stalls temporarily appear. The organisers also provide support...
Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Why are nonhuman animals victims of harm?
Society, Politics & Law

Why are nonhuman animals victims of harm?

...de-emphasizing their individual sufferings and deaths’ (Dunayer, 2004, p. xii). The disciplining of nonhuman bodies in the AIC is resisted in the ways in which ‘livestock’ express their distress at confinement, pain and overcrowding, or the ways in which fishes attempt to evade or escape capture (Wadiwel, 2015). Some of the harms documented in Section 2.1 are...
English in the world today
Languages

English in the world today

...de vivre when speaking English – in both cases invoking images of French culture to enhance the meaning of what is being communicated. Other loanwords, however, become completely naturalised, until speakers of the language no longer notice their ‘foreignness’ at all. Below is a short selection of words of foreign origin which are in use in modern-day English. As you...
Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Supporting climate action through digital education
Education & Development

Supporting climate action through digital education

...de Oliveira Andreotti, 2016). This means individual educators having an active involvement in challenging and changing harmful wider cultures and systems. Activity 4 Describing your own individual actions Timing: Allow about 20 minutes 1. Make some brief notes about one individual action that you have taken in connection with climate change or the environment. 2. Try to...
Talk the talk
Education & Development

Talk the talk

...math, science, marks went up 20 percent on average last year. And I think what's very revealing is that the elite universities, who are often cited as the reason that people drive their kids and hothouse them so much, are starting to notice the caliber of students coming to them is falling. These kids have wonderful marks; they have CVs jammed with extra-curriculars, to...
Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs