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Caring for adults
Health, Sports & Psychology

Caring for adults

...children are at the centre of a palliative care approach. The child might have a life-limiting condition for which there is no reasonable hope of cure and from which they will die. Alternatively, the child might have a life-threatening condition for which treatment in an attempt to cure may be feasible but can fail, such as when operating on a tumour. Caring for any child...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Hybrid working: skills for digital transformation
Digital & Computing

Hybrid working: skills for digital transformation

...centre, what do they need to know about data? Well, they need to have an understanding about what the business is talking about when it talks about machine learning and AI and rating models and all of those things. But they don't really need to know how to do it, and they don't need to know in depth of it. But that understanding is really good for them, because it'll help...
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Level 1: Introductory 11 hrs
Looking at, describing and identifying objects
History & The Arts

Looking at, describing and identifying objects

...centred, in that it prioritises the history of individual objects, without excluding the need to understand the social group they belong to. This course is an adapted extract from the Open University course A105 Voices, texts and material culture...Looking at, describing and identifying objects: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to:...
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Level 1: Introductory 2 hrs
Looking at population data
Society, Politics & Law

Looking at population data

...centre line except in the older age groups: this tells us that there are roughly the same number of males and females in each age band apart from in the latter stages of life, which more women tend to reach than men. Transcript As Hans suggests, the fertility rate of a population - how many children tend to be born, on average, per woman - has a great influence of the...
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Video 30 mins
What was Lewis Carroll like?
History & The Arts

What was Lewis Carroll like?

...Children" has left us. And yet in the full sorrow of it all I find some note of comfort. He was so good and sweet, so tender and kind, so certain that there was another and more beautiful life waiting for us, that I know, even as if I heard him telling it to me, that some time I shall meet him once more. [Isa Bowman as Alice In Wonderland] Isa Bowman In all the noise and...
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Article 10 mins
Black Women and State-Sanctioned Police Violence: The Case of Sarah Reed
Education & Development

Black Women and State-Sanctioned Police Violence: The Case of Sarah Reed

...research into the violent and fatal encounters experienced by black women, bringing attention to cases such as those of Sandra Bland and Rekia Boyd. She highlights the relative invisibility of cases like this when it comes to not only those in academia but also in terms of what captures the media’s attention, the response (or lack) of policymakers and the general...
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Article 15 mins
Everyday English 1
Languages

Everyday English 1

...Children Partner Pets Boss Colleagues Mum Dad Shop assistant Teacher. Now think about what you said to the people you have named. Go back to your list and note down what you talked to each person about and how long you spoke to them. Discussion Did you find this difficult? If so, it’s not surprising – speaking is so embedded into your daily life and you do it so much...
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Level 1: Introductory 48 hrs
‘Land grab’: an environmental issue?
Nature & Environment

‘Land grab’: an environmental issue?

...researchers use the concepts of time and space to think both about the fact that environmental change always touches down in particular places and at particular moments, and the fact that to understand the full impact of these changes we often need to look further afield. Geographers and Environmental Studies researchers use the concepts of risk and uncertainty to draw...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs