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Discovering chemistry Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Discovering chemistry

...Open University digital badge. Badges are not accredited by The Open University but they're a great way to demonstrate your interest in the subject and commitment to your career, and to provide evidence of continuing professional development. Once you are signed in, you can manage your digital badges online from My OpenLearn. In addition, you can download and print your...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Risk management Badge icon
Money & Business

Risk management

...Open University and Rolls-Royce PLC. This collaboration has ensured that contemporary theories about risk management are explored within the context of an international company that is required to apply these theories in its business practices. Recent decades have seen an array of news stories where risk management failings have undermined an organisation and dented the...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Effective communication in the workplace Badge icon
Money & Business

Effective communication in the workplace

...Open University, who you'll hear from at the start of each week, introduces the course. Transcript Enrolling on the course will give you the opportunity to earn an Open University digital badge. Badges are not accredited by The Open University but they're a great way to demonstrate your interest in the subject and commitment to your career, and to provide evidence of...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Compassion and care: staff experiences of death, the role of bereavement policies in higher education
Health, Sports & Psychology

Compassion and care: staff experiences of death, the role of bereavement policies in higher education

...Open University's Health and Social Care courses and qualifications. Researchers have known for some time that the way employers treat their staff can have a huge impact on their mental health and wellbeing, especially around life events. Paid employment can impact health and wellbeing positively by generating a sense of self identity and purpose, the act of being in paid...
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Article 5 mins
Our sense of balance
Science, Maths & Technology

Our sense of balance

...open out into the vestibule. To give some impression of their size, the vestibule (associated with the otolithic organs) in humans is about 3-5mm across, while the semi-circular canals range from 12mm up to 22mm in length. The bony labyrinth that houses the otolithic organs and the semi-circular canals is lined by an outer membrane that encloses an inner membranous...
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Article 10 mins
What's the problem with the government's plans for our schools?
Education & Development

What's the problem with the government's plans for our schools?

...open new state-maintained schools, something they currently are not permitted to do. Patchy solutions to big issues The government response to the places shortfall has largely been to advocate the opening of new free schools. The prime minister, David Cameron speaking in March 2015, committed his party to providing another 270,000 school places in free schools, if...
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Article 5 mins
Should communities be expected to help in death, dying and bereavement?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Should communities be expected to help in death, dying and bereavement?

...Open Thanatology hosted a webinar where a panel of speakers with experience of community action were asked to consider the question ‘Should communities be expected to help in death, dying and bereavement?’. Here we focus on the panellists’ insights to discuss relevant issues raised by this question. What is a ‘community’? As an idea, ‘community’ is hard to...
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Article 5 mins
Remembering Peter and John
Society, Politics & Law

Remembering Peter and John

...Open University...[The OU's Berrill Building] Society Matters aims to help students of The Open University, particularly those in Social Sciences, to make connections between their studies and the wider world. It can be useful to reflect on who has helped to create and maintain the ideas of the Faculty. In the light of the recent deaths of a tutor, who retired in 2015 and...
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Article 5 mins