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Introducing relational care
Health, Sports & Psychology

Introducing relational care

...technologies to release staff time. Between the care setting, the family and the wider community, e.g. Family relationships, friendships and relationships with significant animals are fostered. The setting acts as a focal point for the local community. The community/locality outside the setting is accessed/accessible. There are regular celebrations of national events and...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Talking about the menopause: symptoms, support and the role of exercise
Health, Sports & Psychology

Talking about the menopause: symptoms, support and the role of exercise

...education and understanding. And so for example, if you are feeling really hot, there's always that dilemma if you're sharing an office. Can you open the window? What can you do about it? So, I think, for me, understanding is the most important thing. SPEAKER 4 I used to work with a wonderful woman who, when she was going through the menopause, had very, very extreme hot...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Start writing fiction
History & The Arts

Start writing fiction

...education, hobbies, beliefs, values, lifestyle. Personal history: major events in the life, including the best and the most traumatic...Start writing fiction: 1.4 Portraying a character - Activity 7 Click on ‘Portraying a character’ below and read the extract, which outlines the main methods of revealing character in fiction. Portraying a character Activity 8 Imagine...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Earthquakes
Science, Maths & Technology

Earthquakes

...Technology, who set up a scale on the basis of many years of observations and applied it to well-known earthquakes. He explained the scale in a now classic paper published in 1935. Professor Richter modestly never attached his own name to the scale. He even refused to call it the Richter scale in his papers, long after the press and public had made 'Richter scale'...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Introduction to UK immigration law and becoming an immigration adviser
Society, Politics & Law

Introduction to UK immigration law and becoming an immigration adviser

...Education. Her research interests include public engagement with law, and marginalised communities and their access to justice. Edwin Parks Edwin is a Senior Lecturer in Law at The Open University and has written a wide range of courses, including materials for OpenLearn, the LLB and Executive Education. He is an international practitioner and experienced OU tutor. Liz...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
Language of Poverty
Society, Politics & Law

Language of Poverty

...education and you will resent having to pay taxes to fund public services that you don’t actually use. Those are people on a collision course. But actually poverty, again, isn’t a static group of people. People move in and out of poverty throughout their lives. There is a large section in the population which is susceptible to falling into poverty. That is increasing...
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Social problems: Who makes them?
Society, Politics & Law

Social problems: Who makes them?

...educate ‘them’ to make better choices). Each of the statements above could be assessed in this way, exploring the assumptions about society, behaviour and poverty that underpin them. The same approach could be applied to statements about other social problems. Activity 3 If we were to consider discussions which focus on lone-parent families as a social problem, we...
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Level 2: Intermediate 20 hrs
Historical perspectives on race
History & The Arts

Historical perspectives on race

...education would be a key factor in gaining political and civil equality for African Americans. Writing in the early twentieth century, at a time when Black Americans were subjected to severe social, economic and political discrimination, Du Bois explored what he called the ‘double consciousness’ of African Americans: how could they embrace both American and Black...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs