3,597 search results
The RFS Career Academy Free Learning Collection
Education & Development

The RFS Career Academy Free Learning Collection

...work, transitioning into civvy street or wanting to improve your work skills? This selection of free online courses and content is here to help you with your career...[RFS career academy logo] These free courses and helpful articles have been curated by RFS Career Academy in partnership with OpenLearn, the free learning website from The Open University (OU). All the...
View article The RFS Career Academy Free Learning Collection
Article 5 mins
Improve your everyday maths for free
Science, Maths & Technology

Improve your everyday maths for free

...working to improve numeracy across the UK. The National Numeracy Challenge is a free website to help you check and improve the maths you use in daily life and at work – such as managing your money, working out measurements and understanding percentages – rather than algebra or trigonometry. The Challenge is all about boosting your confidence by giving you access to...
View article Improve your everyday maths for free
Article 10 mins
The Empties Generation: Why did we hit peak booze in 2004
History & The Arts

The Empties Generation: Why did we hit peak booze in 2004

...worked on Saturdays. Trips to music festivals and birthday parties always involved booze, invariably in violently flavoured and oddly coloured forms. Standouts include Apple Sourz, a neon-green fruit liqueur with an ABV of 15%, and Hooch, a classic alcopop that looked and tasted like lemonade but was stronger than many beers. Yet it wasn’t until university that booze...
View article The Empties Generation: Why did we hit peak booze in 2004
Article 10 mins
Music and its media
History & The Arts

Music and its media

...social context, the purpose they serve and what they signify to their recipients. This OpenLearn course is an adapted extract from the Open University course A342 Central questions in the study of music...Music and its media: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: demonstrate knowledge of the main ways in which music is transmitted...
View course Music and its media
Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
Assessing contemporary science
Science, Maths & Technology

Assessing contemporary science

...social and economic impacts of these technologies? Discussion The work has led to scientists developing methods to: Detect prostate cancer by ‘smell’, with the potential to perform more accurate diagnoses, thereby saving lives and expenditure in the National Health Service (NHS). Patients, carers and medical professionals, in particular, could benefit from the...
View course Assessing contemporary science
Level 2: Intermediate 9 hrs
Sea level rise in London, UK
Nature & Environment

Sea level rise in London, UK

...works from the Environment Agency, click here. London's economic value to the UK London is central to the UK economy and as such is seen as a valuable asset. A major flood in 1953 with estimated costs of 1.2 billion at 2014 values (Wadey et al., 2015) led to calls for action. The weighing of costs of inaction i.e. no further protection, and action i.e. spending on further...
View article Sea level rise in London, UK
Article 5 mins
Belfast: Racing to the top for the Grande Partenza
Health, Sports & Psychology

Belfast: Racing to the top for the Grande Partenza

...work, while this number fell by 12% across the rest of Northern Ireland. Figures from the Department for Regional Development for this same period show that cycling has increased in key locations in the city by up to 152%, with activity in some of the most popular areas such as Stranmillis Embankment and the Albertbridge Road rising to an amazing 200%. In 2015 Belfast...
View article Belfast: Racing to the top for the Grande Partenza
Article 5 mins
Southwest Donegal: uniqueness and interdependence in 2015
OpenLearn Ireland

Southwest Donegal: uniqueness and interdependence in 2015

...worked through this series, consider the construction and reconstruction of the local uniqueness and interdependences throughout these articles. Think in terms of how the historical layers have been constructed and, have in turn combined with the previous layer to produce a modified, yet new set of social relations. What elements and processes have been involved? Did you...
View article Southwest Donegal: uniqueness and interdependence in 2015
Article 5 mins