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Introducing public health
Health, Sports & Psychology

Introducing public health

...education, work, housing and environment all impact on our health to some extent. Public health has become ‘everybody’s business’ and is undertaken by a wide range of people, not just in the health sector but in other sectors too. It is both ‘multi-professional’ – involving professionals such as police, teachers, housing officers as well as health workers –...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Introducing healthcare improvement
Health, Sports & Psychology

Introducing healthcare improvement

...educators). Batalden and Davidoff (2007) propose that quality improvement is: …the combined and unceasing efforts of everyone – healthcare professionals, patients and their families, researchers, payers, planners and educators – to make the changes that will lead to better patient outcomes (health), better system performance (care) and better professional...
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Level 3: Advanced 3 hrs
Studying medicine bilingually
Health, Sports & Psychology

Studying medicine bilingually

...education then Welsh medium education throughout Wales becomes more valuable and gives a higher status to the Welsh language as well. It gives people the confidence to speak it out of work and out of an academic environment. It’s been very rewarding so far, two years in, teaching a degree of the medical curriculum through the medium of Welsh. We’ve had small group...
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Level 1: Introductory 1 hr
Banning the bomb: a global history of activism against nuclear weapons
History & The Arts

Banning the bomb: a global history of activism against nuclear weapons

...educated the people of the region about the seriousness of the waste. From the effects of the nuclear bomb and the atomic bomb, and despite all this, we started messaging France to ask for their rights to retire, but the French were ducking and every time they argued something, for example, come to France and every lawyer or some personally. And he has various diseases...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Euro 2020: Will England's ruthless academy system show its value?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Euro 2020: Will England's ruthless academy system show its value?

...education. Each professional football club’s academy is regularly audited and placed into one of four categories. Premier League clubs and some Championship clubs operate Category 1 academies which require an annual multi-million-pound investment. Category 2 and 3 academies are generally associated with clubs in League 1 and League 2 of the Football League, while...
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Article 10 mins
The ‘New World’ Beckons: Irish Migration to Britain’s American Colonies
OpenLearn Ireland

The ‘New World’ Beckons: Irish Migration to Britain’s American Colonies

...educated ‘a generation of military/political entrepreneurs in the mechanics and process of settlement’ (2008, p. 168) that would have far-reaching implications for life in other British colonies. For example, English explorer and general Sir Humphrey Gilbert (1537-1583), who earned distinction and notoriety for his ruthless suppression of the Irish clans, was later...
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Article 5 mins
The challenge of invasive alien species
Nature & Environment

The challenge of invasive alien species

...education/awareness efforts for the general public. In this respect, the public and conservation organisations can play a major role in monitoring for invasive species. Eradication methods could be of physical nature (e.g. direct removal of invasive species by hand or mechanically); chemical (e.g. using toxic chemicals to target and kill the offending invader) or...
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Article 10 mins
What makes people happy at work?
Money & Business

What makes people happy at work?

...educated, possibly part-time or self-employed, probably working in a small work place with just ten or twenty employees." Worker happiness is not an add-on For worker happiness to come about, it needs to be integrated into an organisation's working practices and into what economists call the work contract between capital and labour. Angela Ishmael, of The Work Foundation:...
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Article 10 mins