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10 flabbergasting facts you'll find on OpenLearn
Miscellaneous

10 flabbergasting facts you'll find on OpenLearn

...educated at home and reputedly learned Chinese by listening outside the door while her father taught her brother. She married at about the age of twenty but her husband died soon after, leaving her with a daughter. She then lived quietly for some years. In 1004 Murasaki entered the service of the Empress Akiko, possibly due to her talent for story-writing. No one knows...
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EPQs: designing your research question
Education & Development

EPQs: designing your research question

...education. The ten words she chose (Figure 3) look very different to Sevasti’s because they have very different research interests. Your ten words will be unique to you and your interests. To design a draft research question, you could look to how these words could be combined. For example, a question that comes out of Ann’s ten words in Figure 3 might be: how...
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Race, ethnicity and crime
Society, Politics & Law

Race, ethnicity and crime

...education, so you’re basically stigmatised for life. We have thousands of Black and Latino men, who have basically been pushed out of society – permanently – as a result of their involvement in drugs, which means that they’re not able to be good fathers to their children, to be good partners to the women and the mothers, the people in their lives. It means that...
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Level 3: Advanced 1 hr
Exploring cells with digital fluorescence microscopy
Science, Maths & Technology

Exploring cells with digital fluorescence microscopy

...technology has transformed our understanding of biology, medicine, and materials, and continues to push the boundaries of what is possible. But what if we wanted to do more than just see? What if we wanted to highlight specific parts of this hidden world, make them glow, move, and tell their own stories? That’s where fluorescence microscopy comes in. Fluorescence...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Succeed in the workplace Badge icon
Education & Development

Succeed in the workplace

...educational course vital to the next stage of your career. In this situation, the general interview guidelines apply, but you should also familiarise yourself with the entry requirements. You need to be prepared to talk in detail about the content of your previous study. For a vocational course, identify specific examples of experience you have gained through related...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Sustainable Scotland
Nature & Environment

Sustainable Scotland

...technologies and the development of extensive transport networks for goods and people. The increasing movement of peoples between different states to find work is an example of our global world. Economic migration (that is, moving to another place to find work) is now fairly common. For example, the expansion of the European Union (EU) to include Eastern European...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Applying social work law to asylum and immigration
Society, Politics & Law

Applying social work law to asylum and immigration

...educate, explain and lobby for legal change. As political turmoil, wars and natural disasters seemingly continue to unfold, so does the need for people to seek refuge. At the time of preparing these OpenLearn course materials the War in Ukraine started to unfold and an estimated 2.6 million people had fled the country. As a result, the UK Government instigated the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Why is Mongolia a good place to die?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Why is Mongolia a good place to die?

...educate patients and doctors about its benefits and reduced what she calls “morphine-phobia”. Opioid medications still require a special form, as in most countries worldwide. But a much wider range of professionals can now prescribe them, including oncologists and family and palliative care doctors. This has led to a 14-fold increase in their use in the country from...
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