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What are the rules around assisted suicide?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What are the rules around assisted suicide?

...law, although challenges to the present position and to the law regarding assisted suicide are common. In the programme, Simon’s consultant says that very few people with motor neurone disease choose to go to Switzerland but, as you will have seen, you need to be able to afford to travel there and pay for the service. It may then be a question of not having the choice...
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Exploring Philosophy
History & The Arts

Exploring Philosophy

...laws? For some there’s an assumption that philosophy might not be relevant to modern life but Dr. Nigel Warburton, senior lecturer in Philosophy at The Open University argues that many of us today are faced with philosophical questions such as these as we live our lives in the twenty first century. In this collection we ask academics to discuss these questions in...
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Audio 2 hrs 16 mins
Introducing social care and social work
Health, Sports & Psychology

Introducing social care and social work

...law in social care and social work This OpenLearn course is an adapted extract from the Open University course K123 Foundations for Social Care and Social Work Practice...Introduction: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: identify the roles of social care practitioners and social workers understand what shapes people’s identities and...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
The impact of supporting Ukrainians with free resources on OpenLearn
Education & Development

The impact of supporting Ukrainians with free resources on OpenLearn

...Law and Perryman, 2015). Today, OpenLearn’s audience is global, and its video content is also shared on YouTube, collectively reaching over 14 million people a year, rising to 22 million during the first 12 months of the COVID-19 pandemic. The activity, now a business-as-usual function for the OU, has been researched and evaluated to investigate the motivations of...
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Article 10 mins
Could Brexit allow the UK to drop the ban on cloning?
Science, Maths & Technology

Could Brexit allow the UK to drop the ban on cloning?

...law. Brexit should allow the UK to dump this rule, believes Hugh McLachlan...According to the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights, human cloning should be illegal because “everyone has the right to respect for his or her physical and mental integrity”. The UK’s laws have to be in line with this – but only until Brexit. Fifteen years to the month since the death of...
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Tips for using a large language model
Digital & Computing

Tips for using a large language model

...law You should not use LLMs to upload personal data or data that you do not own to LLMs. These forms of data are protected by various laws and, unless you have specific permission to do so, you cannot legally use them with an LLM. Do not send the contents of books, magazines, newspapers and other publications to an LLM as you do not have permission to do so. Likewise, do...
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Radical alternatives to prison
Society, Politics & Law

Radical alternatives to prison

...law which undermines them. We could also draw more extensively on the civil law and the concept of tort where compensation rather than penalty is the objective of proceedings. [Landscape image of Her Majesty's Prison in Manchester, UK] Her Majesty's Prison, Manchester The vast majority of people who break the criminal law are not dangerous and should not be considered as...
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The restless Universe
Science, Maths & Technology

The restless Universe

...laws and techniques that have somehow emerged from nowhere. This, of course, is not the case. Throughout the ages, it has been the endeavour of individual men and women that has made possible the growth of science and the advancement of physics. This course attempts to emphasise the cultural aspect of physics by providing biographical information about some great...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs