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Skills for study
Education & Development

Skills for study

...education level can present extra challenges - try this course first to reflect on and assess your skills and identify any language areas you might want to improve. What skills do you want to work on? Reading and finding information If you're already an OU student, don't forget to look at the resources, study support and help available from the Open University Library...
Narratives of COVID
Health, Sports & Psychology

Narratives of COVID

...educates professionals when a baby or child of any age dies or is dying. Helpline: 0800 02 888 40 (lines open Monday – Friday 9am – 5pm) Live Chat (Online Monday – Friday 9am – 5pm) Email: helpline@childbereavementuk.org At A Loss Signposting website and online bereavement counselling for anyone bereaved and those supporting them. Grief chat: online Monday –...
Are you estranged from your family and considering university?
Education & Development

Are you estranged from your family and considering university?

...education studies. They are self-reliant and live independently, sometimes with friends or a relative such as grandparents before or while at university. Support available Estrangement is so much more widespread than you may think. If you are already independent due to estrangement from your parents, or think that is likely to happen before or while you are at university,...
Irish Women’s Poetry
OpenLearn Ireland

Irish Women’s Poetry

...Education Bureau (WEB) and through organising workshops around the island with facilitators such as Eavan Boland who worked with women to develop their own writing voices. Salmon Poetry, established by American poet Jessie Lendennie in 1981, published the first collections of a number of women writers who would gain prominence in later years, for example Rita Ann Higgins,...
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Money & Business

Working in teams

...education and skills survey. The most recently available at the time of writing (Roberts, 2023), received responses from nearly 300 employers, ranging in size from small companies with less than 50 employees to large organisations employing more than 55 000 people. Responses were drawn from all parts of the UK and covered all sectors. While the survey no longer...
Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
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Science, Maths & Technology

Returning to STEM

...technology, engineering or mathematics (STEM)...Welcome to the free badged course, Returning to STEM. This course is here to help you get back to work in Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics. The course is intended for anyone who wants to get back into STEM work after having a break, whether to care for family, because of redundancy or for other reasons. Watch...
Level 3: Advanced 24 hrs
Why are caves being used as hospitals in Syria?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Why are caves being used as hospitals in Syria?

...technology like portable ultrasound kits. The care of the wounded and sick has been protected since the very first Geneva Convention of 1864, but the Syrian conflict has seen the rule book torn up, with attacks on healthcare reshaping conflict and humanitarian response. The story behind one SAMS hospital highlights the shocking “new normal” in twenty-first-century...
Hacking under your skin?
Digital & Computing

Hacking under your skin?

...technology permanently placed inside a living person. In this case, the device was an unnamed neurostimulator used to treat conditions including Parkinson’s Disease as well as chronic pain. Although these devices are placed within the body, they can be reprogrammed using wireless connections. The protocols which govern how data is exchanged between the implant and its...