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Women and Workplace Struggles: Scotland 1900-2022
Society, Politics & Law

Women and Workplace Struggles: Scotland 1900-2022

...physical care, we’re seeing a universal movement toward more egalitarian sharing.’ This was the claim of two observers in The Guardian in 2020, as the grip of the COVID-19 Pandemic across Scotland, the UK and globally, deepened and intensified. Important that these debates are, this project was specifically concerned with the often-neglected role of women workers in...
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The Legacy of Nuclear Power: Part 1
Nature & Environment

The Legacy of Nuclear Power: Part 1

...physical isolation and unique intergenerational risks with their strategic, central importance to the modern economy. Audio Text The Legacy of Nuclear Power: Part 1 Petr Jehlička: Hello, I'm Petr Jehlička from the Department of Geography at the Open University and I am joined here by Andrew Blowers OBE. Andrew is Emeritus Professor of Social Sciences who has spent most...
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Marketing communications as a strategic function
Money & Business

Marketing communications as a strategic function

...physically delivering the corporate vision, via its products, to the end user…. Marketing departments have got used to the idea of the tactical integration of communications messages across different media. Increasingly in the future they will have to embrace the idea of strategic vertical integration – speaking with one voice from the CEO's office right down to the...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
Death and medicine: postponement and promise
Health, Sports & Psychology

Death and medicine: postponement and promise

...physical vacuum. For example, it has implications for the way in which medicalised dying is managed. When dying takes place in a public, (relatively) open and visible space such as a hospital, or a section of a hospital such as the intensive care setting, an individual’s experience becomes a communal issue and a public administrative matter. For example, there may be...
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Level 2: Intermediate 1 hr
Succeed with maths: part 2 Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Succeed with maths: part 2

...physically larger unit, such as kilometre (km), to a physically smaller unit, such as metre (m), you always multiply. This makes sense – you will need a lot more of the smaller units to make one of the larger units! On the other hand, to convert a measurement in a smaller unit to a larger unit, you always divide. Another way to think about this is whether you expect...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
IT: Information
Science, Maths & Technology

IT: Information

...physically transporting the tapes or sending the electronic signals over communications network. ENG is here contrasted with the previous use of film. Video servers, digital compression and digital tapeless integrated newsrooms. Video servers are computers with large storage capacity (large hard disks or sets of hard disks) used to store and retrieve compressed digital...
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Level 1: Introductory 20 hrs
Global perspectives on primary education
Education & Development

Global perspectives on primary education

...physical and emotional well-being as well as cognitive growth. This phase overlaps with primary education, since most children go to school at age 5 or 6. Early childhood education is often distinct from primary education, focusing on young children’s social and emotional health, and learning through guided play and exploration (Figure 2). There is much interest...
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Level 2: Intermediate 9 hrs
Introducing technology and innovation management
Science, Maths & Technology

Introducing technology and innovation management

...physically entering a shop and ‘virtual’ friendships both existed long before the advent of the internet, through mail order or catalogue shopping and pen pals writing letters to each other. Mail order shopping and writing letters were made possible by innovations that were groundbreaking in their day. Compare the impact of the introduction of running water, electric...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs