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Planning a better future
Education & Development

Planning a better future

...businesses, and managing the budget and ticket sales (actions). The event raised more than £6000 against a target of £5000 (result). Communication: In my role as youth football coach (situation), I have to communicate effectively with different groups of people; players, parents and officials (task). It is essential that I am clear with the players about what is...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Network security
Digital & Computing

Network security

...business to his rivals because telephone operators, responsible for the manual connection of call requests, were unfairly diverting calls from the newly bereaved to his competitors. Strowger developed switching systems that led to the introduction of the first automated telephone exchanges in 1897. This enabled users to make their own connections using rotary dialling to...
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Level 3: Advanced 25 hrs
Yellow Fever: An OpenLearn reading list
Health, Sports & Psychology

Yellow Fever: An OpenLearn reading list

...business people in Angola and an untold number in the DRC. An ill China-bound traveler from either country could trigger transmission among the 100 million people living in large Chinese cities. From there yellow fever could spread to any and all 100 countries that have endemic dengue globally. “So, we should be very worried,” Woodall says. He also warns that health...
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Article 5 mins
Ahead of Super Tuesday, what have we learned about the candidates?
Society, Politics & Law

Ahead of Super Tuesday, what have we learned about the candidates?

...business and industry. But despite the large liberal turnout in Nevada, Sanders did not win the state. Clinton attracted enough support from liberal voters to carry her to victory. Although she is a self-described moderate, the Nevada results indicate that Clinton’s unpopularity with liberal Democrats is greatly overstated. The fact that Clinton won moderates by a huge...
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Article 5 mins
Coping on the Coast: moral economies and liminality at the heart of things that matter
Society, Politics & Law

Coping on the Coast: moral economies and liminality at the heart of things that matter

...businesses, and organizing bespoke scuba diving trips for adventurous foreign visitors. In a larger town, we met a senior fisheries officer who had developed a social enterprise for smoking tuna fish for export to Jakarta, to improve women’s employment and diversify the town’s fishing industry. We also met elected village leaders who had grander visions of creating a...
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Video 15 mins
Sex workers’ labour struggles in Scotland
Society, Politics & Law

Sex workers’ labour struggles in Scotland

...business owners do not need to pay the same level of tax. In referring to Uber here, Matilda is highlighting that as with Uber taxi drivers, sex workers should have the same rights as employees, rather than being classed as ‘independent contractors’. Different ‘industry’, same labour rights issue. Matilda thankfully agreed to be interviewed as I have known her as...
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Article 10 mins
How I wrote Frankenstein
History & The Arts

How I wrote Frankenstein

...busied myself to think of a story, —a story to rival those which had excited us to this task. One which would speak to the mysterious fears of our nature, and awaken thrilling horror—one to make the reader dread to look round, to curdle the blood, and quicken the beatings of the heart. If I did not accomplish these things, my ghost story would be unworthy of its name....
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Article 5 mins
Volunteering in the community
Education & Development

Volunteering in the community

...busy, attending community concerts, supporting late-night shopping initiatives, and seeing Santa when he comes to visit!” Her advice to anyone thinking they might be interested in becoming a councillor? “Anyone can do it! You won’t be alone – you’ll be in a team of other councillors. Be realistic about what you’re able to commit but definitely give it a go.”...
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Article 5 mins