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FGM clinical pathways in Northern Ireland
Health, Sports & Psychology

FGM clinical pathways in Northern Ireland

...education on FGM. Regulatory bodies (Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC), General Medical Council (GMC) and Social Work regulators) expect registrants to understand the legal, ethical, safeguarding, and health implications of FGM and to deliver person-centred, trauma-informed, sensitive, non-discriminatory care. While FGM training is mandatory for some professional groups...
Free tech tools to help you study
Digital & Computing

Free tech tools to help you study

...technology, software and tools designed to help you set up your technology so it works for you and your studies. ...What this resource is about Are you new to being a student and setting up your laptop ready to study? Or perhaps you're returning after a break and getting back into the swing of things. You may already have preferences for how your devices are set up. For...
Teaching assistants: support in action (Wales)
Education & Development

Teaching assistants: support in action (Wales)

...education. This unit looks at how the role has developed across the UK over time and particularly in Wales. It explores the skills and attributes that teaching assistants use to provide effective support and contribute to productive teamwork...Teaching assistants are an important resource in education. This unit looks at how the role has developed across the UK over time...
Lottery of birth
Health, Sports & Psychology

Lottery of birth

...technology may be a main cause instead. Richer, well-educated families tend to have smaller families, and their preference for a son exerts greater pressure on the family to have a boy (The Economist 2010: 79). Again, the case of China might be different because of coercive policies. The sex ratio imbalance has many other negative consequences for society (Attané 2010:...
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Does nanotechnology offer a better way of dealing with electronic waste?
Science, Maths & Technology

Does nanotechnology offer a better way of dealing with electronic waste?

...technology is still in the laboratory stage, the research team is now working with an industry to demonstrate its scalability and effectiveness. Scaling up the process depends on factors such as the existence of an efficient supply chain of waste as well as viable business models “including the availability of capital, expected return and the policy environment,” says...
Can you harness intrapreneurship?
Money & Business

Can you harness intrapreneurship?

...technology and AI sees the OU’s Digital Skills Lead, Jane Dickinson joined by OU entrepreneur in residence Julian Hall and Capgemini’s Darren Campbell. Transcript Webinar 4: Making a difference – sustainability Finally, OU Sustainability Director Victoria Hands is joined by OU entrepreneur in residence, Alex Cole and green roof specialists, Bridgman and Bridgman, to...
How we found gravitational waves
Science, Maths & Technology

How we found gravitational waves

...technology was based on our work on the earlier UK/German GEO600 detector. This turned LIGO into Advanced LIGO, arguably the most sensitive scientific instrument ever, to give us our first direct glimpse of the dark universe. Transcript A long time ago … What a glimpse it was. The two black holes that collided were respectively about 29 times and 36 times the mass of...
Millennial burnout: building resilience is no answer – we need to overhaul how we work
Health, Sports & Psychology

Millennial burnout: building resilience is no answer – we need to overhaul how we work

...technology and going online can be physically and emotionally exhausting. Excessive internet use has been linked to burnout at school. These are just some of the ways that millennials have been increasingly exposed to the same stressors that we know can negatively affect people in the workplace. We know very little about how millennials experience burnout. Early research...