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Teaching secondary modern foreign languages
Education & Development

Teaching secondary modern foreign languages

...Introduction - This free course, Teaching secondary modern foreign languages, will identify and explore some of the key issues around teaching modern foreign languages (MFL) in secondary schools. Engaging with these issues and debates will help you to reflect upon and develop your practice as a beginner teacher of MFL. You will also develop a greater awareness of the...
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Level 3: Advanced 11 hrs
Exploring the relationship between anxiety and depression
Science, Maths & Technology

Exploring the relationship between anxiety and depression

...introduction to masters level study in neurosciences and mental health. Focusing on anxiety and depression, you will consider key issues concerning diagnosis, causes and interventions, exploring how these conditions relate to each other. You will also explore some of the more contemporary and controversial findings within the field...This free advanced level course,...
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Level 3: Advanced 3 hrs
Is cleaning a route to a better life for migrants?
Society, Politics & Law

Is cleaning a route to a better life for migrants?

...manager, who was the contact person between the event centre and the cleaning company, exchanged a word or two with Kifibin. However, she mostly spoke English to him. In an interview, she explained why she was not in regular contact with the cleaner: Actually the cleaning is outsourced and the supervising is outsourced, too, so it should disturb our work as little as...
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Why do some cities thrive?
Science, Maths & Technology

Why do some cities thrive?

...managed to reinvent themselves by growing new sectors – electronics, pharmaceuticals, finance, business support services. Those cities that hadn’t managed to diversify, reorientate and adapt their employment sectors fared less well.” Martin cites Cambridge as an exemplar of diversification: “Cambridge is interesting because it is often held up as a high-tech...
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Can engineering help improve patient safety?
Science, Maths & Technology

Can engineering help improve patient safety?

...manages to make genuine improvements in patient safety, too often these interventions cannot be replicated elsewhere or scaled up, leading to the curse of “worked once”, as she describes it. One place that has managed to break this pattern is Northern Ireland, which has overcome the problem of poor labelling of lines such as intravenous lines and urinary catheters. A...
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Diversity in Education: Challenging the Norm in Academic Recruitment
Education & Development

Diversity in Education: Challenging the Norm in Academic Recruitment

...managers within the Faculty of Business and Law (FBL) at The Open University. The project was premised on the fact that the largest group of stakeholders, after students, are the Associate Lecturers (ALs), also known as tutors. Associate Lecturers are responsible for teaching delivery, where they are the ‘face’ of OU academic staff for students. The OU has over 4,000...
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Article 15 mins
Collaborative problem solving for community safety
Money & Business

Collaborative problem solving for community safety

...Introduction - Welcome to Week 4. This week we look at Learning through reflection; Assessing critical problems in community settings; Different approaches to decision making; and Identifying potential solutions. The key to effective problem solving and decision making is the ability to reflect on past actions and experiences in order to understand our own assumptions...
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Level 1: Introductory 16 hrs
A Victorian Christmas: Christmas Day In The Workhouse
History & The Arts

A Victorian Christmas: Christmas Day In The Workhouse

...managers to discover what the poor of London could expect for their Christmas Day. The following is an extract of their report...Celebration of Christmas Day amongst the poor inmates of the metropolitan and suburban workhouses [Caricature of poor people at a workhouse having dinner; by Phiz] A view of a typical 1840 workhouse meal In the following will be found succinctly...
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