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Housing beyond borders
Society, Politics & Law

Housing beyond borders

...researchers at the University of Sheffield who, over the last few years, have been studying the uneven impact of how the cities of Manchester and Salford in the North West of England are being opened up to processes of financialisaton, understood as the transformation of housing from a public good into a commodity. Researchers Rich Goulding, Adam Leaver and Jon Silver...
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Article 5 mins
Proud of nursing associates: who they are and why they are important
Health, Sports & Psychology

Proud of nursing associates: who they are and why they are important

...Research shows that NAs have a significant and important part to play in healthcare teams but rarely is this widely noted (Thurgate & Griggs, 2023). It is our ethos at the Open University that everyone should be encouraging, empowering, enabling and ennobling the NA role to all stakeholders, including the public. [Nurse holding hands with a patient.] We believe it’s...
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Opening up history: eighteenth century ideas of national independence
History & The Arts

Opening up history: eighteenth century ideas of national independence

...research. ...Find out more about The Open University's Arts and Humanities courses and qualifications. 1. What first got you interested in history? [Anna Plassart]I never intended to become a historian; my first degree was in economics. But I discovered that I was less interested in contemporary economic theory than in the history of economic thought. Eighteenth-century...
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Achieving public dialogue
Science, Maths & Technology

Achieving public dialogue

...researchers such as Brian Wynne and Alan Irwin. From your own experience, have you sensed that, in Miller's words, ‘a new age of public understanding of science’ has been entered? Bodmer's deficit model approach, though now largely superseded, put particular emphasis on imparting science information to the public. Part of the reason this model was increasingly...
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Level 3: Advanced 16 hrs
Why study languages?
Languages

Why study languages?

...centres financial services media travel and tourism central government engineering marketing technology voluntary and charitable sector. Activity 3 Translation mishaps Timing: You should allow 20 minutes Have a look at the notices below and see if you can work out what each one is trying to say. As a native speaker, you may find them amusing because of the incorrect...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Health, disease and society: Scottish influence in the 19th century
History & The Arts

Health, disease and society: Scottish influence in the 19th century

...research, and the laboratory scientist claimed a greater authority than the clinical practitioner. The diagnosis of particular infectious diseases now relied on tests on tissue samples performed at the lab bench, not simply on the subjective analysis of patterns of symptoms. At the time Nicholas Jewson published his article ‘The disappearance of the sick-man from...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Global Handwashing Day
Science, Maths & Technology

Global Handwashing Day

...children each year. Handwashing with soap is a simple, cost effective way to prevent many of these deaths. Find out more about disease prevention and the importance of handwashing, hygiene and sanitation in these free courses from The Open University. The theme of this year’s Global Handwashing Day is “Clean hands are within reach”. Changes in handwashing behavior...
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Managing care
Health, Sports & Psychology

Managing care

...Managing to protect This discussion looks at managing staff in the area of adult and child protection. It deals with the training needs of staff in a series of demanding and sensitive roles. Learning from mistakes and challenges How inquiries have shaped policy in children's residential care, and the systems in place to prevent managers from repeating their mistakes....
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