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What does Jacob Zuma's survival of a no-confidence vote mean?
Society, Politics & Law

What does Jacob Zuma's survival of a no-confidence vote mean?

...skills are well-known. So too is his adeptness at using executive patronage to secure the loyalty of party members as has been made clear in the revelations arising from his links to the Gupta family. The secret ballot saga But the back story to the unprecedented rebellion within his own party was the method of voting as much as Zuma’s political skullduggery. For the...
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How to say no at work without guilt or conflict
Education & Development

How to say no at work without guilt or conflict

...skill. Whether you're protecting your time, managing workload, or maintaining a healthy work-life balance, the way you communicate your refusal can make all the difference. Here’s how to do it with clarity and professionalism...How often do you say no to a request at work? How often do you wish you’d said no to a request at work? There are lots of good reasons to turn...
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Global challenges in practice: designing a development intervention
Money & Business

Global challenges in practice: designing a development intervention

...study focuses on an issue often referred to as WASH. Which stands for water, sanitation, and hygiene. Manual drilling refers to techniques for drilling boreholes for drinking and irrigation water that don’t use power machinery. Make notes of the stakeholders and their interests by completing the stakeholder importance and influence matrix. You have to estimate...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Drug development process: combating pain
Science, Maths & Technology

Drug development process: combating pain

...studying this course, you should be able to: appreciate the intrinsic difficulties associated with developing a drug molecule from conception into a medicine suitable for clinical use appreciate how molecular modelling can be used in the drug discovery process understand the historical background to pain control understand that opioids, steroids and NSAIDs all work at the...
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Level 3: Advanced 2 hrs
Starting with psychology
Health, Sports & Psychology

Starting with psychology

...study in Psychology & Counselling This course is also available in Welsh on OpenLearn Cymru. Tell us what you think! We’d love to hear from you to help us improve our free learning offering through OpenLearn by filling out this short survey...Starting with psychology: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: analyse a range of factors...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Blue Monday: An OpenLearn reading list
Health, Sports & Psychology

Blue Monday: An OpenLearn reading list

...study like this. You would have to take a large group of people and measure each of these factors every day of the year. You would then need to assess the relative contributions of each factor in the equation to feeling a bit low. An equation might look good, but any psychologist doing research will tell you that unfortunately neither human emotions nor behaviour can be...
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Reading communities: why, what and how?
Education & Development

Reading communities: why, what and how?

...study of British Cohort data revealed a strong association between childhood reading and increased attainment in literacy and numeracy in adolescence (Sullivan & Brown, 2013). In addition, as teachers know intuitively, and other studies have shown, reading for pleasure has myriad other benefits such as a wider vocabulary and general knowledge, an enriched imagination and...
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OpenMinds: Why visit Mars and what we might find there?
Miscellaneous

OpenMinds: Why visit Mars and what we might find there?

...year running. [Northern Ireland Science Festival Logo][Copyrighted image Icon][space science masters image]Study space science at postgraduate level to prepare for managing major missions like those to Mars: MSc in Space Science and Technology Study space science at undergraduate level: Questions in science - introductory level Planetary science and the search for life...
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