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Human use of animals
History & The Arts

Human use of animals

...adult humans who lack the mental capacity to think about their own past as their own. Would they not be persons? Peter: I think they’re no longer persons. They may have been persons and we may choose to respect the wishes they had when they were persons. But there comes a time at least if the body outlives your intellectual capacities to such an extent that you can no...
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Birth of a drug
Science, Maths & Technology

Birth of a drug

...adult population in the UK suffers from hypertension, a condition that is a major contributor to heart disease. So the first criterion is met: there is a medical condition that needs to be treated. The very significant proportion of the population with hypertension also indicates a commercial opportunity for drugs which provide improvements over existing therapy, so...
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Level 3: Advanced 4 hrs
Human Resource Management and EDI
Money & Business

Human Resource Management and EDI

...adult workforce than the traditional white males who had historically been the majority. Managers would therefore be faced with having to manage a diverse workforce. Work processes also became more complicated, requiring an increasing use of multifunctional and multi-skilled teams often drawn from different parts of an organisation. Collaboration, team work and an ability...
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Level 3: Advanced 2 hrs
Exercise and mental health
Health, Sports & Psychology

Exercise and mental health

...adults in Great Britain suffers from a mental health condition, such as depression or anxiety (Cooper and Bebbington, 2006), which makes the effective treatment of these conditions an issue of great importance. Anti-depression medication is often prescribed to treat depression, but compliance with taking these medications is often poor and they can have negative side...
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Level 2: Intermediate 2 hrs
Ratting out disease: How animals are detecting disease - and other threats to life
Health, Sports & Psychology

Ratting out disease: How animals are detecting disease - and other threats to life

...careful persuasion of the medical profession and scientists.” Now, though, she says she is contacted almost weekly by groups hoping her dogs might become involved in studies to investigate whether there are odours associated with the early stages of a wide range of diseases, including Parkinson’s disease (a collaboration on this with the University of Manchester is...
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Does prison work?
Society, Politics & Law

Does prison work?

...care to the individual. That's not to say that the programmes within prisons don't in fact help individuals, and our experience here is that many men derive considerable benefit from what we're able to provide at Grenden, but for the vast majority of people coming into prisons there isn't that opportunity and there isn't that experience for them and therefore the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 1 hr
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Money & Business

Working in teams

...adult career guidance for over 20 years, including for the Careers Service at The Open University. LYNNE: If you've had recent experience of looking for work, then you're likely to be fairly familiar with the expectation from employers that you can evidence your ability to work in a team. You may have even been asked a competency question, beginning with the dreaded can...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
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Education & Development

Teaching and learning tricky topics

...careful not to give the student your view on the topic as this can lead towards a teaching session and will not elicit the students’ own ideas on the topic. This may be the hardest thing to remember as a teacher but the teaching must be left to a later point in time so that the students feel free to give you their ‘real’ understanding (or misunderstanding). However,...
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Level 2: Intermediate 24 hrs