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Water for life
Nature & Environment

Water for life

...systems, the third one down in Table 2, is the element carbon. It is possible to have some of the element itself - that is, some pure carbon containing nothing but carbon atoms - for example, a piece of charcoal of the type used in barbecues. Table 2 The ten most common elements in the human body and their approximate percentages (of the total number of atoms in the body)...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Working with young people: roles and responsibilities
Education & Development

Working with young people: roles and responsibilities

...system’ between the ‘system’ of the young people and, say, in some villages or estates, the ‘system’ of a group of adults complaining about young people's behaviour. In Christensen and O'Brien's (2003) study, Children in the City, the authors suggest that living in the city is as much about negotiating relationships with other human beings as it is about living...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
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Money & Business

Personal branding for career success

...system at very short notice, which fundamentally changed my daily activities. Task: I was tasked with training my team to ensure that they could work with it efficiently. Action: Despite my initial reservations, I quickly researched the system and identified colleagues within my sector who were already using it. I was reassured by my conversations with them that it would...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
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Science, Maths & Technology

Returning to STEM

...systems and all of my previous experience had been on mainframe systems. So I just think it was, yes, the course was very significant in that it just gave me the confidence to apply for that particular job and it just turned out that my experience fitted very well to the company. Week 2 of this course includes a section on volunteering, which can be a useful way to get a...
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Level 3: Advanced 24 hrs
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Money & Business

Developing career resilience

...system, or training to broaden your knowledge and enhance your future opportunities. Activity 5 Change and personal development Timing: Allow about 15 minutes Consider an example where change was required at work. This might have been a change of role, of teams, of ways of working, of technology or something else. Identify the change and what you and/or your employer did...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Rounding and estimation
Science, Maths & Technology

Rounding and estimation

...system during the last year, relative to the Sun, and how fast we earthlings are travelling? In order to estimate this it is necessary to make some assumptions: assume that the path of the Earth's orbit around the Sun is circular; the distance between the Earth and the Sun is approximately 92 860 000 miles, which is the radius of the orbit; distance travelled in one year...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
‘Problem’ populations, ‘problem’ places
Society, Politics & Law

‘Problem’ populations, ‘problem’ places

...system of places that compose the metropolis. It is in these districts draped in a sulfurous aura, where social problems gather and fester, that the urban outcasts of the turn of the century reside, which earns them the disproportionate and disproportionately negative attention of the media, politicians, and state managers. They are known, to outsider and insiders alike,...
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Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs
An introduction to death, dying and grief
Health, Sports & Psychology

An introduction to death, dying and grief

...system of the person who you are talking with; maybe your own belief system means that the terms you use are consistent. You may have found yourself using humour to talk about death as a coping mechanism, or have been aware of others doing this. Many people adapt the way they talk about death depending on the context they find themselves in. An Open University academic...
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Level 2: Intermediate 7 hrs