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Hip Hop and the Institution: Darren Abracadazra
History & The Arts

Hip Hop and the Institution: Darren Abracadazra

...Open University’s Hip Hop and the Institution conference. Here, he talks about his influences, poetry and ‘X Factor’... ...‘My name is Darren Paul and I've been performing poetry for around 4-5 years. I am a British-born Jamaican import with mixed ancestry that grew up in London before moving to Milton Keynes at a young age. My poetry is sometimes existential in...
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Article 8 mins
Mental health: Survivor suggestions
Health, Sports & Psychology

Mental health: Survivor suggestions

...people with, but if something bothers you it is important I think mental health is all about life balance; which sounds easy but it's not always so easy to achieve This resource is part of the 'Wellbeing and Mental Health Collection' created by the Open University in Wales. You can learn more and find courses, articles and other activities on the collection's homepage....
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Developing business ideas for drone technologies Badge icon
Money & Business

Developing business ideas for drone technologies

...resources and qualifications by visiting The Open University – www.open.edu/ openlearn/ free-courses...Week 2: Business models and drones in agriculture: Introduction - Welcome to Week 2 of Developing business ideas for drone technologies. This week focuses on business models and revenue models, or how firms create and capture value. You will look at different types of...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Plastic materials, pollution and recycling
Science, Maths & Technology

Plastic materials, pollution and recycling

...resource. A slightly better option is to burn the plastic within a refuse-derived-fuel to recover the energy trapped within the materials, this is often the best option for highly contaminated plastics. A better solution to waste plastics, if simple reuse isn’t practical, is to recycle the plastic materials. This is often so-called materials recycling where the plastic...
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Understanding your sector Badge icon
Money & Business

Understanding your sector

...resources and qualifications by visiting The Open University – www.open.edu/ openlearn/ free-courses...Week 1: Where are you now?: Introduction - Welcome to Week 1 of the free badged course Understanding your sector – and congratulations! You have taken the first important step in thinking about your chosen employment sector, its structure and the factors that affect...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Introduction to the Amazon System
Nature & Environment

Introduction to the Amazon System

...resources in the Amazon,with trees at the centre of the web.] At the centre of the Amazon system are its billions of trees. These trees generate the climate which allows the recycling of water, brought in as moisture from the Atlantic Ocean and Caribbean Sea, to reach mountain tops many thousands of kilometres inland. They protect the fragile soils from the torrential...
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Article 5 mins
What does the head of Ofsted do?
Society, Politics & Law

What does the head of Ofsted do?

...education reform against resistance from unions. The idea that a new head of Ofsted brought in from a totally different cultural context will somehow be able to wave a magic wand over English education is not only both misguided and myopic, but shows a fundamental ignorance of what Ofsted was set up to do. Being the head of Ofsted has never been an easy role. The chief...
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Article 10 mins
The Anniversary of D-Day
Miscellaneous

The Anniversary of D-Day

On the 6th June 1944 the Allied invasion of Normandy began. This year marks the 80th Anniversary of 'D-Day' so we've put together a great range of resources on the Second World War...To mark the anniversary, we've compiled some of our Second World War resources...
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