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What are bed blockers - and are they signs of a failing NHS?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What are bed blockers - and are they signs of a failing NHS?

...become commonplace in the media. It seems to be becoming a regular feature of discussion of the failings of the NHS. Yet what exactly is a 'bed blocker' and is it a symptom of a failing NHS? A 'bed blocker' is shorthand for someone who is unable to leave hospital and return to their own home, even though they do not need medical treatment or care. For many, the term 'bed...
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Article 5 mins
Culture can be brutal, just ask Milton Keynes
Society, Politics & Law

Culture can be brutal, just ask Milton Keynes

...become shorthand for the place. The cows are at their most brutal looking in this picture, a sad serenade to the dying Midsummer Oak tree. The 150-year-old tree was carefully accommodated in the original layout of Central Milton Keynes and survived for a few years as the centrepiece of the Intu shopping centre extension. For a few years, it even boasted its own...
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Video 25 mins
OpenMinds-Talk: Virtual Worlds for real experiences
Digital & Computing

OpenMinds-Talk: Virtual Worlds for real experiences

...become” an avatar of their liking, fly, become microscopic, travel to the moon or visit the International Space Station, or look at the rock structures underneath the ground on which they are standing. Date: Tuesday 20 June 2017 Time: 4.00-5.00pm Venue: Berrill Lecture Theatre, The Open University Virtual worlds also give us a means to overcome physical limitations to...
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Article 5 mins
What is Alzheimer's disease?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What is Alzheimer's disease?

...become more severe. Around 850,000 people have dementia in the UK, with 62% of these having Alzheimer's disease - the most common form of dementia. Although it can sometimes affect young people, it is more likely to develop in older people and affects around one in six of the population aged over eighty. The problem is a worldwide one, although it has the greatest impact...
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Article 5 mins
The Arts Past and Present: Ireland
History & The Arts

The Arts Past and Present: Ireland

...become an independent nation state, the Irish nationalists abandoned high-profile buildings like Dublin Castle as it was symbolic of their British oppressors, and it fell into ruin. Yet they proudly restored older sites like Cashel and New Grange, which is even older than the pyramids, to emphasise an earlier romantic Irish past. In doing so they literally reconstructed...
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Medical statistics
Science, Maths & Technology

Medical statistics

...Students are expected to have a good knowledge of statistical ideas and methods at an introductory level. Some basic mathematical skills are required. No knowledge of calculus is required. Medical statistics consists of material from M249 Book 1 and has four sections in total. You should set aside about four hours to study each of the sections; the whole extract should...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
'Bad Apples' or Organisational Cultures?
Education & Development

'Bad Apples' or Organisational Cultures?

...students at all levels of education (for US achievement gaps related to race/ethnicity see Ladson-Billings, 2006, for gender/race see Reardon et al., 2019, for gaps related to socio-economic status/class/race see Carter and Weiner, 2013; for UK achievement gaps related to race/ethnicity see Stevens, 2007, for gender, ethnicity and social class see Strand, 2014) and...
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Article 10 mins
Wendy Gregory On Using Systems Thinking In Practice
Society, Politics & Law

Wendy Gregory On Using Systems Thinking In Practice

...OU: “After that, I couldn’t stop seeing systems everywhere. It became so much a part of me that I even married another systems thinker, of the critical sort just like me [Gerald Midgley]. We worked on a lot of systems projects together starting with a project for the local council on disasters planning where we worked with 19 different organisations who all had an...
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