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Scottish nurses striking out
Society, Politics & Law

Scottish nurses striking out

...managers would get over four times the cash payment of nurses delivering direct clinical care. A newly qualified registered nurse would see their salary increase by just over £1,300 to just under £27,500 while the highest paid senior managers would receive an increase of almost £5,500 to over £113,000. Scot's nurses 'sick of living on poverty line' gear up for strike...
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Article 5 mins
‘Making Food Allergies Your Business’ Podcast Series on safer dining
Health, Sports & Psychology

‘Making Food Allergies Your Business’ Podcast Series on safer dining

...manage this condition is to avoid known allergens and to always have access to emergency medication. To help businesses, this research and knowledge exchange project explains what a food allergy is, and how living with food allergies can impact all aspects of a person’s life. It also shares some experiences of how current business models are excluding people from eating...
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Audio 2 hrs
You and your money
Money & Business

You and your money

...manage their debt, how much it costs and the different types of credit they can or cannot access. This free course, You and your money, explores these issues, with respect to the wider, changing, social and economic context...An important aspect of personal finance is the way in which individuals and households manage their debt, how much it costs and the different types...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Digital thinking tools for better decision making Badge icon
Digital & Computing

Digital thinking tools for better decision making

...manage your digital badges online from My OpenLearn. In addition, you can download and print your OpenLearn statement of participation – which also displays your Open University badge. The Open University would really appreciate a few minutes of your time to tell us about yourself and your expectations for the course before you begin, in our optional start-of-course...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Reading visual images
Society, Politics & Law

Reading visual images

...introduction to analysing and interpreting photographs as social data. Who controls what the image is saying? You will look at how photographs provide visual evidence and how they can illustrate and support our ideas about society...What does a picture or an image tell you? This free course, Reading visual images, is an introduction to analysing and interpreting...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Learning how to learn
Education & Development

Learning how to learn

...Introduction - In encouraging you to think explicitly about how you learn, as well as about what you learn, we are drawing on research about learning which has shown that this approach can actually improve your performance. Certainly it can and will make you a more efficient and effective learner. Before we start to explore the process, let us consider two general points...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Interviews - Writing For Radio
History & The Arts

Interviews - Writing For Radio

...manager cut it together, but I was listening to it and trying to work it out still. And I don’t think that was, um, a flawed process. I think it was, it was unique to that piece and I think every single piece has its own challenges and its own kind of puzzle to crack. But that’s again that is another pleasure of it, you know, because when you crack it it’s so...
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Audio 45 mins
Open education
Education & Development

Open education

...Introduction - The aim of this week is to familiarise you with some of the concepts and to get you thinking about some of the issues involved. We will then explore these in more detail in the coming weeks. The materials presented in this week are largely drawn from Week 7 of the Open University H817 course Openness and innovation in elearning...Open education: 1.2 Week 1...
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Level 3: Advanced 40 hrs