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Inclusive Leadership: Effecting change
Education & Development

Inclusive Leadership: Effecting change

...research from around the world, so that you reflect on personal and institutional responses to enacting leadership that support the involvement of all. If you haven’t already, you might want to consider exploring the related OpenLearn courses after completing this course: Inclusive Leadership: Collaborating for professional development Leadership for inclusion: thinking...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
The Future For Finance
Society, Politics & Law

The Future For Finance

...Centre for Accounting... Reform in the Financial Services Industry This podcast was recorded just after the Queen’s Speech on May 25th 2010, which set out the Government’s policy agenda for the forthcoming parliamentary session following the General Election on May 6th 2010. The Financial Services Industry: Reform and Reinforcement of Regulation In this podcast Martin...
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Audio 21 mins
Microgravity: living on the International Space Station Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Microgravity: living on the International Space Station

...research into the ageing process using insects as models, but the process equally applies to human beings. [In the centre of this circle are images of a human from a foetus to an old person.] Figure 1 The hallmarks of ageing. There are many complicated processes going on here, but you don’t need to know the details. The most apparent hallmark of ageing is ‘genomic...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Protest Banners: Trade Union
Society, Politics & Law

Protest Banners: Trade Union

...research fellow in the faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, and I want to share my excitement with you over this 1920s Transport and General Workers Union banner. It’s a dockside branch banner and the Dockers have quite a history of protest from a mass strike of unskilled and skilled workers in the late 1880s (the struggle against casualization and for a daily living...
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Video 5 mins
Systems explained by Russell Ackoff
Money & Business

Systems explained by Russell Ackoff

...and operational research...Russell Ackoff is a multifaceted academic and business thinker. Born in Philadelphia in 1919, he has been characterised as an architect, a philosopher, a city planner, an operations researcher and a problem solver. He is perhaps best known for making systems thinking understandable and accessible. But his studies began uneventfully... Transcript...
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Audio 10 mins
Classical Studies: festivals
History & The Arts

Classical Studies: festivals

...centre of everything. ...Learn about festivals of the ancient world, and the activities and rituals that took place – including chariot races, processions and even a great banquet held in a cemetery. Some of the festivals are surprisingly similar in nature to those we enjoy today. Festivals celebrated by the Ancient Greeks and Romans Dr Jess Hughes, Senior Lecturer in...
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Video 10 mins
The world's busiest railway - Mumbai, India and rail
Science, Maths & Technology

The world's busiest railway - Mumbai, India and rail

...centre of the rail network, connecting the whole of India to the rest of the world, turned Mumbai into the economic powerhouse it is today. [Traffic outside Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus station, Mumbai on bikes and mopeds] Mumbai is India’s financial capital, its City of Dreams – home to billionaires and the hopes and fortunes of all of India. Ambitious workers flood...
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Article 5 mins
Moral judgement of others
Health, Sports & Psychology

Moral judgement of others

Watch how children of different ages respond to Kohlberg’s Heinz dilemma...Transcript.
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Video 5 mins