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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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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
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
Improving patient, family and colleague witnesses’ experiences of Fitness to Practise proceedings
Health, Sports & Psychology

Improving patient, family and colleague witnesses’ experiences of Fitness to Practise proceedings

...technology regularly, it can be a challenge. Even people who are confident in using this type of software can come across technical issues. For example, a regulator may want them to attend anonymously and some actions and settings need to be changed on the software to allow people to do this. Activity: reflection point Timing: Allow 10 minutes Our focus group members felt...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Understanding water quality
Nature & Environment

Understanding water quality

...technology; reduced by settling ponds heat heated water returned to rivers and lakes electric power plants; steel mills; refineries and other industrial cooling units reduction of oxygen in the water, resulting in slower or incomplete pollutant decomposition and harm to aquatic life minimised by recirculation and reuse of industrial cooling waters...Understanding water...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Manufacturing
Science, Maths & Technology

Manufacturing

...technology products such as aircraft engines are sometimes sold at a loss by the manufacturer, which then makes its profit through maintenance and charges for spares for the engine during its lifetime. But for the product to be bought by the customer at the target price, it must have a value to the customer which is at least equivalent to that price. If the value of the...
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Level 1: Introductory 20 hrs
Health and wellbeing in the ancient world
History & The Arts

Health and wellbeing in the ancient world

...Education and Language Studies at The Open University, about how to find out what counts as ‘health’, both today and in the past. Their discussion introduces debates over how health is defined, and addresses the term ‘wellbeing’ and why it is used. HELEN KING Hello. I'm Helen King, professor of Classical Studies at the Open University. And I'm joined today by...
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Level 1: Introductory 18 hrs
Metals in medicine
Science, Maths & Technology

Metals in medicine

...technology – and all within the radiology department of your local hospital (Robbie et al., 2007). Can you suggest why MRI is potentially less harmful to patients than CT? Unlike X‑ray-based diagnostics such as CT, MRI does not expose patients to potentially harmful ionising radiation. A typical MRI scanner is shown in Figure 5. Figure 5 A clinical MRI
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs