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Health, Sports & Psychology

Understanding mental capacity

...change in the next ten years. You will also consolidate your learning and think about your next steps. By the end of this week you should be able to: describe possible changes in mental capacity law and outline key themes describe some of the particularly useful or surprising things you have learned on this course start to make plans for your future learning, your...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Social media and networks in health and social care
Health, Sports & Psychology

Social media and networks in health and social care

...changes all the time. The young people also are always one step ahead of us as we and the parents and carers need to be alert of that and just keep checking that the parenting controls remain because the students obviously know how to turn them off. Parents are also unaware of all the online dangers themselves. Often leaving the children unsupervised for long periods of...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Who gets to be a human? Religion in colonial histories and Indigenous resistance
History & The Arts

Who gets to be a human? Religion in colonial histories and Indigenous resistance

...climate report that came out a few months ago states that it’s extremely urgent to change course. Around the world, many of us have started to remember and take back the wisdom and knowledge of our ancestors. Many of us are trying to communicate this wisdom and knowledge because we see that it is now urgent to save mother earth. Every day I look for small signs of hope,...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Was British business always planning for Brexit?
Money & Business

Was British business always planning for Brexit?

...changes in diversification and internationalisation – the two fundamental dimensions of corporate strategy. We collected 1993-2010 data for 5,415 firms in France, Germany and the United Kingdom, as well as the mid-sized northern and southern European economies of Sweden, Finland, Italy, and Spain. Our data covers all publicly listed non-financial firms. In a nutshell,...
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Article 5 mins
What do tests tell us?
Education & Development

What do tests tell us?

...change. 18 year olds with UK qualifications can go to university in Europe - it can be significantly cheaper. Or they can go to the USA - it might be much easier to get a scholarship. In today’s increasingly global world then international comparisons of tests are becoming more important to parents and young people – as well as governments. One of the ideas put...
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Article 10 mins
Should the NHS try a Dutch model for social care?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Should the NHS try a Dutch model for social care?

...changing on a day-to-day basis depending on what the patient needs. Nurses work in teams of ten, each serving a particular community and working closely with local GPs and services. They see themselves as having a key social function of identifying and building relationships within the community. Buurtzorg says that not only are patients happier but so are staff – it...
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Did Waterloo prevent a fresh Anglo-American war?
History & The Arts

Did Waterloo prevent a fresh Anglo-American war?

...changes which have occurred in the immediate vicinity of this country, our most serious consideration would have been attracted by what has occurred on the other side of the Atlantic. Under other circumstances, we should have seen with uneasiness and sorrow (alarm is out of the question), the unfriendly, or rather the decidedly hostile feeling towards this country, which...
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Article 10 mins
Oliver Sacks: "Romantic, in the sense of the romantic poets"
Health, Sports & Psychology

Oliver Sacks: "Romantic, in the sense of the romantic poets"

...changes in perception that had striking implications. Sacks was not the originator of this form of writing, nor did he claim to be. He drew his inspiration from the great neuropsychologist Alexander Luria but while Luria’s cases were known to a select group of specialists, Sacks wrote for the general public, and opened up neurology to the everyday world. Despite...
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Article 5 mins