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How can your accent put your life at risk?
Languages

How can your accent put your life at risk?

...students who were considered lazy and poorly motivated on the basis of their English expression; or consumers who did not manage to return faulty products within the warranty period because shop assistants pretended not to understand them. Mundane interactions such as these have broad social consequences. Far from interacting on a level playing field, NESB speakers have...
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A very brief history of AI
Digital & Computing

A very brief history of AI

...become a much more efficient man since his efforts would no longer be limited to the one-to-one patient-therapist as now exists. In actuality (as Weizenbaum was all too willing to explain to anyone willing to listen) ELIZA is a relatively simple program that recognises certain words and phrases entered by the user and uses it to generate one of a series of its own...
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On the death of Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela
Society, Politics & Law

On the death of Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela

...students and workers, many of which ended in bloody massacres. Mandela was by now convinced that the ANC had no alternative but to take up armed struggle. During his long years of imprisonment, the apartheid government was slowly losing its grip on power. The anti-apartheid movement helped to ostracise the regime internationally. The South African Defence Force’s air of...
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Article 10 mins
Terrorism in Europe and beyond: A reading list
Society, Politics & Law

Terrorism in Europe and beyond: A reading list

...becoming endemic, even if the chances of actually being directly affected by such events remains vanishingly small. Read: The Nice attack and the corrosive effects of anxiety Anthony Morris of the University of Technology in Sydney explores the French attacks through the prism of the nation's literature: Yet the spirit of critique lives on in their literature, most...
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EU Referendum - Sovereignty
Society, Politics & Law

EU Referendum - Sovereignty

...become lower than the risks of staying in. They worry, in particular, that staying in the EU would expose the UK to its troubled experiment with the Euro Area. In its present form, the 17-member Eurozone may be destined to underperform the UK and US economies because of the limits it imposes on freedom of budgetary action, and the problems it causes for less dynamic...
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Education & Development

Succeeding in postgraduate study

...students, producing and leading qualifications across different programmes at the OU and elsewhere. PAYAM REZAIE We designed this course to help students who want to pursue Master's-level study to be better prepared for success. The course serves to bridge the gap between undergraduate and postgraduate study. It also serves as a useful induction to postgraduate study....
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Level 3: Advanced 24 hrs
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Education & Development

Succeed with learning

...becoming a successful student and academic skills can have useful applications in everyday life. Being able to use academic skills in the real world can help you get used to being a student and to see this role as part of who you are – and vice versa...Week 5: Learning tool kit: 1.1 Reading, writing and note-taking - Reading and writing are probably the first things you...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Supporting children’s learning in primary education today
Education & Development

Supporting children’s learning in primary education today

...OU course offers a range of different perspectives taking into consideration differences in education systems in the UK and opportunities for learning and teaching beyond the school gates...Supporting children’s learning in primary education today: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: understand the different aims of primary education...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs