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Introduction to Spanish
Languages

Introduction to Spanish

...work and your working day. You will learn vocabulary for different professions, say what your job is, and how you go to work. This course is an extract from the L106 Introduction to Spanish Studies (beginners) course. Whether you are a complete beginner or have some knowledge of Spanish you could give it a go and we hope that you enjoy the course!...In this free course,...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Ratting out disease: How animals are detecting disease - and other threats to life
Health, Sports & Psychology

Ratting out disease: How animals are detecting disease - and other threats to life

...work here in Morogoro, a few hundred kilometres west of Tanzania’s largest city, Dar es Salaam, on a programme to sniff out tuberculosis (TB). TB is a disease that can destroy the lungs. About 9 million new cases are diagnosed worldwide every year, one-quarter of them in Africa. Africa also has the highest TB death rate per head of population. Antibiotics can cure TB,...
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Article 5 mins
Why do some cities thrive?
Science, Maths & Technology

Why do some cities thrive?

...work in Milton Keynes] Building the dream: Development work in Milton Keynes Arguably, everything about Milton Keynes is deliberate: its site, its transport, its housing, its business sectors, its jobs. From the moment of its ‘birth’ in 1967 as one of the country’s ‘new towns’, Milton Keynes was planned as a whole. Over the past three decades, it has out-smarted...
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What happens to the poorest in a cashless society?
Science, Maths & Technology

What happens to the poorest in a cashless society?

...working poor rely almost exclusively on cash, with about 97 percent of all transactions involving an exchange of rupees. With 93 percent of the country working in informal off-the-books jobs, most transactions entail personalized relationships rather than standardized forms of legal contract or corporate institutions. My own research on the persistence of Delhi’s...
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Struggling to be heard: One woman’s video story
Society, Politics & Law

Struggling to be heard: One woman’s video story

...working in the railway? After three years at the Inland Revenue and having no luck with each promotion I went for, I spotted an advert in the local paper looking for Train Conductors to join Scotrail. As a single mum at the time, I had a heart to heart with my young daughter’s childminder and she encouraged me to go for it and said that we would work her caring for...
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Video 5 mins
Impossible Peace 2: Introduction
OpenLearn Ireland

Impossible Peace 2: Introduction

...work -‘Impossible Peace’. Our focus now is the period 2005/10, and what happened after the IRA decision to end its armed campaign at 4pm on Thursday, July 28th 2005...[Impossible Peace 2: Dismantling the wars collection trailer] Click here to download the video transcript (docx) A World of War -power, ego and little leadership [Photo of Brian Rowan, a former BBC...
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Article 5 mins
The evolution of sports medicine over the last 50 Years: From the wet sponge to holistic care
Health, Sports & Psychology

The evolution of sports medicine over the last 50 Years: From the wet sponge to holistic care

...work in sports injury related roles has increased dramatically over the years. Fifty years ago there were only a limited number of sports in which you could work in a full-time sports medicine related role (e.g. physiotherapist) in the UK, but now due to increased professionalisation in sport and lottery funding there are more opportunities. Additionally, there has been...
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Article 5 mins
Week 7 Civilisations: The debate
History & The Arts

Week 7 Civilisations: The debate

...work of Venetian artists such as Titian and Tiepolo, Hindu images from Jodhpur in India and Japanese woodcuts. The way that different civilisations use and value colour is also shown to be shaped by cross-cultural connections; the brilliant ultramarine blue in paintings such as Titian’s Bacchus and Ariadne, you might like to know, comes from lapis lazuli mined in...
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