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Is Donald Trump ignoring the lessons of Deepwater Horizon?
Nature & Environment

Is Donald Trump ignoring the lessons of Deepwater Horizon?

...management that they place in doubt the safety culture of the entire industry.” The root causes for these mistakes included regulatory failures. Now, however, the Trump administration wants to increase domestic production by “reducing the regulatory burden on industry.” In my view, such a shift will put workers and the environment at risk, and ignores the painful...
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Article 5 mins
Life as a Railway Worker: An Oral History Testimony by Nan Zaimaitas nee Lamont
Society, Politics & Law

Life as a Railway Worker: An Oral History Testimony by Nan Zaimaitas nee Lamont

...management inspectors towards the cleaners. I watched grown men crumble, reduced to tears as they were threatened with dismissal and told to repeat chores for no reason. The inspectors tried it with me, on one occasion calling me back into a train coach to mop a floor I had already done. I asked to be shown the problem but the inspector shouted at me to just do it. I...
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Article 10 mins
Grief during COVID-19: supporting our colleagues to return to work and thrive following loss
Health, Sports & Psychology

Grief during COVID-19: supporting our colleagues to return to work and thrive following loss

...managers who play a significant part in influencing a grieving employee’s experience of their workplace. The most senior personnel can feel deskilled in situations of bereavement, and colleagues struggle with what to say and how to behave when someone returns to work.Yet even the most senior personnel can feel deskilled in situations of bereavement, and colleagues...
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Article 10 mins
Medicines and personalisation
Health, Sports & Psychology

Medicines and personalisation

...manage symptoms associated with ageing (e.g. overactive bladder) which can actually worsen cognitive function. Older people can also struggle to regulate their body temperature, so drugs that act on the brain can lead to unusually low body temperature even in the summer. The difficulty with identifying ADRs in older people is that they are often vague and non-specific....
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Early years team work and leadership
Education & Development

Early years team work and leadership

...Introduction - In this free course, Early years team work and leadership, you will explore your understanding of leadership and how it operates in your early years setting. You will also consider how you work within a team and how your skills contribute towards supporting leadership. The course contains views from practitioners in different settings and at different...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in STEM Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in STEM

...manage your digital badges online from My OpenLearn. In addition, you can download and print your OpenLearn statement of participation – which also displays your Open University badge. The Open University would really appreciate a few minutes of your time to tell us about yourself and your expectations for the course before you begin, in our start-of-course survey. Once...
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Level 3: Advanced 24 hrs
Getting started with German 1
Languages

Getting started with German 1

...introduction offers the perfect opportunity to develop the skills needed to communicate effectively in German in everyday contexts! This OpenLearn course is an extract from the beginning of the Open Centre for Languages and Cultures short course, LGXG001 Beginners German 1: fang an! After completing this free course, you may wish to register for the full course to...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Understanding mortgages
Money & Business

Understanding mortgages

...managed by borrowers through such options as overpaying, offsetting and remortgaging. The course also examines the mortgages from the viewpoint of the lenders, including the factors that affect their decisions about making mortgage advances. By completing the course you will not only become more knowledgeable about the mortgage market but also more confident about making...
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Level 1: Introductory 2 hrs