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A freelance career in the creative arts Badge icon
History & The Arts

A freelance career in the creative arts

...writing etc. Activity 2 Categories within the creative arts sector Timing: Allow about 5 minutes Spend a few minutes thinking about the subsectors listed by the Creative Industries Federation. Can you identify which subsector (or maybe there’s more than one) your work fits into? Discussion If you’re unsure whether your ideas fit with the categories this course intends...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Can rabies be eliminated from Asia by 2020?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Can rabies be eliminated from Asia by 2020?

...writing it has only launched a pilot project in the northern state of Haryana to advise on managing the problem nationwide. Meanwhile, the government leaves it to the local city authorities to carry out programmes for vaccinating stray dogs on the street. Most deal with the problem by hiring NGOs like CUPA. That leaves rural areas, where rabies strikes hardest, all but...
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Article 10 mins
Brexit's two tribes: can they be brought together?
Society, Politics & Law

Brexit's two tribes: can they be brought together?

...write something about Brexit for a little while, but confess I’ve found it incredibly difficult to do so. Part of this is my feeling that as somebody who voted to remain I don’t want to be a bad loser. On the other hand, as somebody who voted to remain I do want to be a bad loser. Like many on the remain side of the divide I have heard nothing to convince me that...
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Article 10 mins
Diary of a Mars operations day
Science, Maths & Technology

Diary of a Mars operations day

...writing my report. Part of my role is to document the discussions we had earlier and preserve for the future why we are investigating the targets that we have selected. Thus, I spend the next ten minutes thinking back to the discussions we had, and making notes of all the reasons why we have chosen the targets. Then there comes a fun part: naming our targets. For this, we...
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Article 15 mins
Women and Workplace Struggles: Scotland 1900-2022
Society, Politics & Law

Women and Workplace Struggles: Scotland 1900-2022

...write to us at: scotland-socsci@open.ac.uk We are particularly keen to hear from women workers, and from male trade unionists, who have been involved in struggles around issues such as pay and fairness at work, defending jobs as well as campaigns to defend or improve workplace conditions. We are also interested in disputes and strikes more generally from across all...
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Article 10 mins
An introduction to computers and computer systems
Digital & Computing

An introduction to computers and computer systems

...write down how the following items of hardware relate to the functional blocks in Figure 5 (in the previous section). For simplicity, assume that items that provide input functionality relate to input devices, rather than input subsystems, and similarly items that provide output functionality relate to output devices rather than output subsystems. keyboard display 500 GB...
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Level 1: Introductory 16 hrs
Two concepts of freedom
History & The Arts

Two concepts of freedom

...writing about freedom will reveal the wide variety of approaches to political life which have been defended in the name of freedom. The arguments we'll be examining are arguments for political or social freedom: the freedom of the individual in relation to other people and to the state. The aim is to explain and unravel some arguments for this kind of freedom. In the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 20 hrs
Gaelic in modern Scotland
Languages

Gaelic in modern Scotland

...write their own Gaelic vernacular. English and Gaelic have thus shared a similar alphabet for a very long time but, of course, the Latin letters had to be adapted to portray sounds which were not necessarily of identical quality in each language. Anglophone readers soon learn that the English ‘rules’ which relate particular letters and letter combinations to...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs