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Finding creativity in orbit?
Science, Maths & Technology

Finding creativity in orbit?

...manage: What arrant (utter, complete) arrogance to suggest that scientists and engineers are not “creative” – which is the implication of the statement “…..what happens this time when you send creative people?”. The scientists and engineers who conceive and design, for example, the Large Hadron Collider, the Mars Curiosity Rover, the Rosetta mission to land on...
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Co-designing professional learning to address evolving challenges
Education & Development

Co-designing professional learning to address evolving challenges

...manageable PL interventions that: are practitioner-driven are fully integrated into classroom practice inspire significant changes in approaches to teaching practice and inspire creative pedagogies enable practitioners to develop new perspectives and opportunities have an interdisciplinary outlook build on the strengths of the stakeholders involved. Learning opportunities...
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Bodies in transition – children starting school
Education & Development

Bodies in transition – children starting school

...manage their bodies in particular ways in the new space of the school. For instance, they described learning to use the soap dispenser in the bathroom, timing their physical needs and sitting in particular ways at particular times of the day. Interestingly, the most photographed objects from the photo tours were the chairs in the school hall which they could sit on at...
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Christmas at war: 1914 - Gifts for injured soldiers
History & The Arts

Christmas at war: 1914 - Gifts for injured soldiers

...now has about 700 inmates. As many men as could well manage the journey have been sent home to be with their relatives at Christmas, but empty beds were quickly filled by fresh arrivals from the front. Since the war began the hospital has treated nearly nine thousand cases, of which 7,734 were wounded men from France. From: The Manchester Guardian, Christmas Eve 1914...
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What is a transformation process? The one minute guide
Money & Business

What is a transformation process? The one minute guide

...Management. See a full list of OU Business School courses Image credits: butterly emerging from a cocoon by Emmanuelle Bourgue CC-BY-NC-ND Tillamook cheese factory by Kristina D.C. Hoeppner CC-BY-SA Hahnemann Hospital and Homœopathic Dispensaries by Wellcome Library CC-BY woodworking by conespider CC-BY-NC-ND delivery people by Garry Knight CC-BY checkout lane by Random...
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Your Health in Your Hands - PHBs
Health, Sports & Psychology

Your Health in Your Hands - PHBs

...Lizzie who has cerebral palsy. They manage their personal health budgets in tandem. Mathew breathes using a respirator and needs 24-hour care. Case study 1: Alzheimer's Disease In this case study we hear from Jonathan Fitzpatrick. He was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s in his 50s. Now 68 after a short spell in a care home he lives at home in Oxfordshire with his wife Anna....
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Who is Justin Trudeau - and how did he become Canada's new Prime Minister?
Society, Politics & Law

Who is Justin Trudeau - and how did he become Canada's new Prime Minister?

...managed to get higher than 46% of the popular vote. He left his Liberal Party in disarray when he retired, and although the party has won elections since, it has never truly recovered. How ironic, then, that Pierre’s eldest son, Justin, has led a Liberal resurgence – and has done so while not being much like his father after all. A different path Temperamentally...
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Success and failure in healthcare: should regulation be simple or integrated?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Success and failure in healthcare: should regulation be simple or integrated?

...management and the Department of Health set the culture of the organisation where focus drifted away from the primary purpose of their provision, caring for patients, there were also shortcomings in how healthcare professionals, the doctors and nurses on the ground, were regulated. Simple regulation would aim to protect patients by providing a register of practitioners...
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