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OpenLearn Live: 2018 World Cup Special
Health, Sports & Psychology

OpenLearn Live: 2018 World Cup Special

...out, fight the big match nerves with some calming insights into the world of soccer...[Vladimir Putin holds the World Cup] The Jules Rimet trophy is presented to the winner of the FIFA World Cup New for 2018 A line-up of articles fresh for this year's tournament - including, erm, the very first International match report, which is new in the way the fresh pies at the...
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Exploring youth violence: what would you do?
Education & Development

Exploring youth violence: what would you do?

...out about The Open University's Childhood and Youth Studies courses and qualifications. Many young people are increasingly becoming marginalised, having to contend with a multitude of social ills and risks: crime, violence, substance misuse, fragile families, homelessness, and limited access to education and welfare services. To understand some of the problems these young...
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How do we measure personality?
Health, Sports & Psychology

How do we measure personality?

...there’s been a lot more consensus, we seemed to have converged around five as a number that works well. Again, there’s nothing magic about that number. Some people are arguing we could add one in, but now there is this idea that we do seem to capture the core essence of people’s personality using those five dimensions. Brendan Burchell on personality Find out more...
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Could you work in end of life care?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Could you work in end of life care?

...out about The Open University's Health and Social Care courses and qualifications. In this interactive you'll explore how nurses interact with the dying person and their families, how they deal with distress and how they cope working in these environments. Turn up your sound and select here to begin the interactive... [End of life care interactive launch image] Click on...
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The Future For Finance
Society, Politics & Law

The Future For Finance

...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 Upton of The Open University Business School provides a summary of some of key changes to the regulation of financial services that have unfolded since...
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Black British Jazz
History & The Arts

Black British Jazz

...out by The Open University research team led by Dr Jason Toynbee who has been examining the history of Black British Jazz and the stories of the artists who have performed it. This video looks at the history of jazz and how the story dates back as far as 1919, documenting how successive waves of black musicians have contributed to developing new and uniquely British...
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10 incredible people whose stories you'll find on OpenLearn
History & The Arts

10 incredible people whose stories you'll find on OpenLearn

...out more about Caroline Norton make sure you check out this article World-Changing Women: Caroline Norton. 4: Dorothy Hodgkin - first British woman to win a Nobel Prize [Dorothy Hodgkin] Dorothy Hodgkin, born in 1910, was a British biochemist who developed protein crystallography, she won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for this in 1964. In 1969, five years after winning the...
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Jack Perks - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Jack Perks - Earth in Vision

...out as a young natural history filmmaker, exploring wildlife in Britain, and the role of social media in connecting with new audiences...Jack Perks Jack is a wildlife photographer and filmmaker specialising in freshwater fish, but with a passion for all things natural history. After studying a BA (Hons.) in Marine & Natural History Photography at Falmouth, he went on to...
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