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Challenging Workplace Gender Roles: One Woman’s Story
Society, Politics & Law

Challenging Workplace Gender Roles: One Woman’s Story

...Social Sciences qualifications. Background Women have frequently faced struggles to enter the workplace in roles considered traditionally male. Women’s workplace roles were often those associated with caregiving, such as nursing or teaching. This is because certain jobs were labelled and allocated according to gender and viewed by society as either masculine or...
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Article 10 mins
The problem with crime
Society, Politics & Law

The problem with crime

...socially constructed. And, like all social constructions, it is contested. So what does the trajectory of Glasgow's image look like in historical terms? Before even answering this question, think about what kind of data we would look for in methodological terms that would tell us something about external perceptions of Glasgow. A key source would have to be literary...
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Level 2: Intermediate 1 hr
Justice, fairness and mediation
Money & Business

Justice, fairness and mediation

...interact. While we might perhaps assume that there is one single view of what either justice or fairness mean, in reality they are contested ideas – that is to say, ideas which we all perceive and interpret differently. This course considers the concepts of justice and fairness from various perspectives, looking particularly at the importance of both for effective...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
10 incredible people whose stories you'll find on OpenLearn
History & The Arts

10 incredible people whose stories you'll find on OpenLearn

...social reformer [Caroline Norton image] Back in the day, women were seen as men's property upon marriage so were given no rights whe it came to divorce - something Caroline Norton fought against. Born in 1808, she is famed for being a social reformer and author. Caroline Sheridan, her name before marriage, was born into a well-connected but not well-off family. She...
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Article 15 mins
Am I ready to be an apprentice distance learner?
Education & Development

Am I ready to be an apprentice distance learner?

...interactive steps to refresh your approach to learning. You will explore useful study skills, time management, assessments, becoming digitally ready, and effectively engagement with course materials. You will complete the course with an exercise to enable you to reflect on your readiness to be an apprentice distance learner. After studying this course, you should be able...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
Rural entrepreneurship in Wales
Money & Business

Rural entrepreneurship in Wales

...social enterprise objectives explore the feasibility of a business idea plan a strategy for the development of your company state the likely resources and capabilities required for your new business and understand where the gaps are likely to occur...Rural entrepreneurship in Wales: Unit structure - This course should take approximately 30 hours to study, but it has been...
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Level 1: Introductory 30 hrs
Multidisciplinary study: the value and benefits Badge icon
Education & Development

Multidisciplinary study: the value and benefits

...social sciences module, and realised about a month into it I've made a huge mistake. It didn't make me want to read on and do it, so that personal excitement I wanted wasn't there. So I dropped it, and re-registered with something else. SPEAKER 3 Multi subject study is really something that students like doing. The most popular degree across the university. Almost 20% of...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Introducing healthcare improvement
Health, Sports & Psychology

Introducing healthcare improvement

...Social Care. In this free course, Introducing healthcare improvement, you will be exploring what is meant by the terms ‘quality’ and ‘quality improvement’ in the context of healthcare. You will consider what constitutes the key dimensions of healthcare quality that improvement initiatives typically target. You will be introduced to some key ideas from the academic...
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Level 3: Advanced 3 hrs