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Welcome to the Health and Social Care CPD hub
Health, Sports & Psychology

Welcome to the Health and Social Care CPD hub

...management or communication. Accredited and endorsed learning Successfully finishing a course on OpenLearn will earn you a free statement of participation on completion. You can use this to provide evidence of your engagement with an online course, but these are not accredited courses. The 24-hour badged courses on OpenLearn, such as Leadership and Followership,...
Volkswagen scandal will send costly ripples through auto industry
Money & Business

Volkswagen scandal will send costly ripples through auto industry

...management (SCM) includes just in time (JIT) delivery of parts to the auto manufacturers. A company like VW also buys the majority of each part from a single supplier. Common sense (and a popular cliche) has long dictated that when faced with uncertainty, you “don’t put all your eggs in one basket.” The auto industry’s mantra, in light of SCM and JIT, might be...
African and Caribbean coaches in international football: is there enough progress?
Health, Sports & Psychology

African and Caribbean coaches in international football: is there enough progress?

...manager just before the knockout rounds began. He then orchestrated a remarkable and miraculous run as the host nation’s leader, which culminated in a 2-1 victory over Nigeria in the final, making Faé the first manager in history to win a major tournament after taking over mid-competition. For this achievement, he was named the Best Coach of the 2023 AFCON. Following...
Stress and Burnout in Aviation
Health, Sports & Psychology

Stress and Burnout in Aviation

...managed. It is characterized by three dimensions: feelings of energy depletion or exhaustion; increased mental distance from one’s job, or feelings of negativism or cynicism related to one's job; and reduced professional efficacy. Burnout can result in mental fatigue, (emotional and physical) exhaustion, anxiety, and disconnection and can have serious implications for...
Mental health in society
Health, Sports & Psychology

Mental health in society

...Introduction - [Described image] This course will explore the different perspectives of mental health and the way in which they are understood. As well as traditionally being related to biology, neurology and psychology, experiences of mental health are also linked to social factors such as housing, employment, poverty or isolation. In addition, other aspects of...
Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
A brief history of communication: hieroglyphics to emojis
Languages

A brief history of communication: hieroglyphics to emojis

...introduction to the history of writing, and the key role it plays in human communication. It tracks this history from the invention of writing around 5500 years ago to the mass popularity of emojis today...This free course, A brief history of communication: hieroglyphics to emojis, is an introduction to the history of writing, and the key role it plays in human...
Ratio, proportion and percentages
Science, Maths & Technology

Ratio, proportion and percentages

...Introduction - The topics in this free course, Ratio, proportion and percentages, are concerned with dividing something into parts. For example, if there are 200 people living in a small village, and 50 of these are children, this could be expressed as a percentage: 25% of the village population are children; or as a ratio: one in every four people is a child or there is...
Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
The moderate authoritarians: Labour's soft middle gets tough
Society, Politics & Law

The moderate authoritarians: Labour's soft middle gets tough

...project to ensure that all those who are voting hold “Labour values” and are not trying to weaken the party from the inside. As one staffer noted: “we sell Labour membership as being about values and let people forget that they have to sign up to the aims too.” These concerns are especially prevalent as fears grow that, if Corbyn wins, the losers will mount a...