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Accredited CPD Courses for Career Growth
Education & Development

Accredited CPD Courses for Career Growth

...institutes or regulators are often required to complete a set number of CPD points or hours each year. Each professional body, institute, regulator or employer sets its own CPD policy. The number of points or hours required can vary by profession and sector. OpenLearn CPDSO-accredited courses provide verified points that can contribute toward these professional...
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Understanding Identity
Society, Politics & Law

Understanding Identity

...race The implications of race and ethnicity for racism. Racism - individual and institutional Investgating the Stephen Lawrence murder case . Change in attitude is the responsibility of both public institutions and private individuals Ethnicity and identity Young people’s perceptions of identity may hold the key to understanding issues of race and ethnicity in Britain....
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How is a University obsession with teenagers hurting part-time students?
Education & Development

How is a University obsession with teenagers hurting part-time students?

...institutions and are crying out for more flexibility to cope with their studies. The crisis in part-time higher education is predominantly, but not exclusively, an English problem, set against changes to fee structures that have resulted in part-time fees tripling since 2012, and no maintenance grants for part-time study. [Somerville College accommodation block, Oxford]...
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Reacting to Hillary Clinton's nomination
Society, Politics & Law

Reacting to Hillary Clinton's nomination

...institutions, is a defining question for all three major waves of women’s organizing. Elite white women have disproportionately benefited from each wave of women’s organizing in the United States. And, importantly, while left-leaning men, and men more generally, now theoretically endorse women in power, they often undermine or abandon those women who dare to...
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One belief, big impact: could your view of learning improve inclusive practice?
Education & Development

One belief, big impact: could your view of learning improve inclusive practice?

...et al., 2023; Solano-Flores and Nelson-Barber, 2001). In contrast, a ‘social approach’ emphasises the relational and structural factors influencing learning. It shifts the focus away from trying to change individuals to better fit the system, and towards identifying and addressing barriers within the environment. This approach is underpinned by an understanding of...
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Can you predict the outcome of a Brexit deal with a little logic and a bit of arithmetic?
Science, Maths & Technology

Can you predict the outcome of a Brexit deal with a little logic and a bit of arithmetic?

...et les baisers de la fermiere (loosely translatable as wanting not only to have their cake and eat it, but also to kiss the baker’s daughter). But on the other hand, it is conceivable that Deal UK ought to be better than the deals granted to countries that have never been EU members. It would debase the status of EU membership to treat the UK worse than those who have...
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Diagramming for development 1: bounding realities
Digital & Computing

Diagramming for development 1: bounding realities

...Institute (2001) ‘Freshwater Systems: Working for Water, Working for Human Welfare in South Africa’ in: World Resources 2000−2001: People and Ecosystems, the Fraying Web of Life, pp. 193−205, Washington, World Resources Institute...Diagramming for development 1: Bounding realities: 2 The role of diagramming - The diagrams in this unit are designed to help you...
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A National Health Service or an International Health Service?: South Asian geriatricians
Society, Politics & Law

A National Health Service or an International Health Service?: South Asian geriatricians

...institution’ given the constitutive role that migrants, including those from South Asia, played in fundamentally shaping the services offered by the NHS...Find out more about The Open University's Open Degree. On 5 July every year the UK celebrates the establishment of the National Health Service (NHS) in 1948, arguably one of the greatest British achievements of the...
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