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Approaching plays
History & The Arts

Approaching plays

...money. KIT I'll pay. Example 2 NORA Really! Did a big dog run after you? But it didn't bite you? No, dogs don't bite nice little dolly children. You mustn't look at the parcels, Ivar. What are they? Ah, I daresay you would like to know. No, no – it's something nasty! Come, let us have a game! What shall we play at? Hide and seek? Yes, we'll play hide and seek. Bob shall...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
Global challenges in practice: designing a development intervention
Money & Business

Global challenges in practice: designing a development intervention

...business, I have many kind of people. Moreover, even though I have a son. I will still teach him how to drill. Because I want continuity. INTERVIEWER So you say, you are proud to hand over this profession to your– JAMES ALABAMA ADEJARE Confirm. I am proud about it. I’m a borehole man. INTERVIEWER Thank you much Mr Adejare. (SINGING) Ladies and gentlemen, boys and...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Two Yorkish episodes
History & The Arts

Two Yorkish episodes

...money. The flour for our tea-cakes, she said, was a shilling fivepence a stone, "And not too much for growing and grinding it, and all." Every week-day morning she rose at half-past four, and got breakfast for her boys, who then rode their bicycles, or, in the snow, walked, all the miles of our voyage into York, where they worked in the railway shops. No, they did not...
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Article 5 mins
The winding garden path: Radicalism amongst the flower beds
History & The Arts

The winding garden path: Radicalism amongst the flower beds

...money. So I think allotments pose a number of problems in that they allow people to garden. When I had an allotment for a short time, [I] took a class of kind of twenty-odd twelve year-olds down so they could pull out a carrot and see what it was like. Laurie Taylor: Where would I look then for examples of radical...? George McKay: I would look at allotments, yes. In fact...
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Article 15 mins
The working-class garden
Society, Politics & Law

The working-class garden

...busy pricking out their marigolds." [Freshly dug vegetables] I remembered that incident as I was reading a new book called The Gardens of the British Working Class which reveals the part that gardens have played in the lives (and indeed the politics) of working class people from the 1500s to the present day. And its author is Margaret Willes, previously publisher for the...
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Article 15 mins
The importance of interpersonal skills
Money & Business

The importance of interpersonal skills

...Business & Management Tell us what you think! We’d love to hear from you to help us improve our free learning offering through OpenLearn by filling out this short survey...The importance of interpersonal skills: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: recognise the importance of interpersonal skills describe how good communication with...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
Hybrid working: change management
Money & Business

Hybrid working: change management

...from home. Where it's landed us now is a much more wider use of technology across the business, if you like. So you would always have the IT departments and the data areas who would be at the forefront of using some of these tools-- collaboration tools, messaging tools, those sorts of things. And now that has to be everybody because that's the way that we're communicating most of the time. So the real shift is in the ......
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Why is Mongolia a good place to die?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Why is Mongolia a good place to die?

...business, shifting between the pastures in spring and summer and hunkering down during Mongolia’s harsh winter here on the outskirts of the capital, Ulaanbaatar. But with Tumurbat unable to work, they have had to sell almost all their sheep. Enkhjargal has had to take a part-time job in a local abattoir to make ends meet. Diagnosed late, barely a year ago, Tumurbat’s...
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Article 15 mins