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The Italian Patient: Health care in Renaissance Italy
History & The Arts

The Italian Patient: Health care in Renaissance Italy

...skill, many were not. Women were found amongst the licensed practitioners. They were not allowed to go to university, but a physician might teach his wife or daughter, who could then practice on licence. Large numbers of women were in fact involved in healing - making medicines, setting bones and treating small wounds - but nearly always without the status of men. 95% of...
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Talking about loss: normalising grief with children
Health, Sports & Psychology

Talking about loss: normalising grief with children

...skills of the children, they could be supported to create a card or letter for someone who has died. The child could be encouraged to share how they are feeling with written prompts such as ‘I miss you’, ‘I am very sad that you died’, as well as listing favourite memories, or how they will keep their memory alive such as through enjoying a favourite meal or...
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Coaching others to coach Badge icon
Health, Sports & Psychology

Coaching others to coach

...skills. You can read more on how to study the course and about badges in the next sections. After completing this course, you will be able to: understand the impact coach developers can have on coach learning and development appreciate the skills, knowledge and personal qualities that effective coach developers possess describe appropriate concepts and theories that...
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Level 2: Intermediate 24 hrs
Hybrid working: organisational development
Money & Business

Hybrid working: organisational development

...skills and capabilities required to meet your objectives in the post-pandemic hybrid working world and will take a holistic approach to wellbeing and sustainability, drawing on the Well-being Future Generations (Wales) Act 2015. Throughout the course there are documents, reports and articles. While you are encouraged to read these, the timings for activities will provide...
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Level 1: Introductory 21 hrs
One minute methods - participant observer research
Health, Sports & Psychology

One minute methods - participant observer research

Discover how researchers live within the societies they are studying, sometimes for many years, to gain an insider’s perspective and to share similar experiences...Transcript.
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Centre for Open Thanatology Hub
Health, Sports & Psychology

Centre for Open Thanatology Hub

The Open University’s interdisciplinary research centre dedicated to the study and education of death, dying, loss, and grief across the life course and in diverse contexts.
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Home education: levelling the playing field or increasing inequalities?
Education & Development

Home education: levelling the playing field or increasing inequalities?

...Studies qualification. [Sign saying 'EXAMS AHEAD' next to books] EHE students have to pay in full and sit exams as private candidates, organising their own exams with willing exam centres; at a school, college or independent exam centre, often not local. With Teacher Assessed Grades (TAG), the teacher completing their assessment/timed mock-exam-style assessments had to be...
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Introduction to algebra
Science, Maths & Technology

Introduction to algebra

...study each of the sections; the whole extract should take about 16 hours to study. The extract is a small part (around 7%) of a large module that is studied over eight months, and so can give only an approximate indication of the level and content of the full module. The extract, which contains the first introduction to algebra in the MU123, is relatively self-contained...
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Level 1: Introductory 16 hrs