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A National Health Service or an International Health Service?: South Asian geriatricians
Society, Politics & Law

A National Health Service or an International Health Service?: South Asian geriatricians

...system and in part to government and management pressure to improve bed occupancy figures. Geriatric medicine began to offer a career trajectory and eventually became what it is today, the second largest specialty with about 1,514 specialists. The 'Cinderella specialty' status gave room for overseas trained doctors who found their own opportunities for career growth to...
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Unmasking inequalities: what COVID-19 revealed about the degree awarding gap at The Open University
Digital & Computing

Unmasking inequalities: what COVID-19 revealed about the degree awarding gap at The Open University

...systemic issue rather than isolated occurrences. But the reasons behind these gaps cannot be reduced to academic ability. Through our focus groups, we explored the broader structural and institutional challenges that shaped students’ ability to succeed – especially during the pandemic. Structural barriers were a major theme. Participants identified economic...
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Art and life in ancient Egypt
History & The Arts

Art and life in ancient Egypt

...thinking about ancient Egyptian art and culture is one element of an extensive, and resolutely contemporary, endeavour...Week 1 The influence of Egyptian art: 2.1 Gustave Flaubert – novelist - The French novelist Gustave Flaubert famously travelled with the writer Maxime du Camp through Egypt and the Holy Land in 1849. Modern critical scholars, notably Edward Said, have...
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Level 1: Introductory 30 hrs
English in the world today
Languages

English in the world today

...systems of speech that the human race has developed throughout its history, risen to such a position of prominence? Figure 2: The use of English around the world The emergence of English as a global language is not the end of the story, though. The fact that English is now established as an important linguistic force in countless communities around the world does not mean...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Drug development process: combating pain
Science, Maths & Technology

Drug development process: combating pain

...system (CNS) associated conditions, is the need to achieve penetration of the blood–brain barrier, a process that has exacting physico-chemical requirements. A more detailed study would address these issues and illustrate the methods not only for discovering new active compounds, but also optimising these to ensure that they can perform effectively and safely as drugs...
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Level 3: Advanced 2 hrs
Approaching plays
History & The Arts

Approaching plays

...thinking of drama in a more general sense, we might be avid watchers of TV soaps or films. But, as a student of literature, you are sitting at home with a book open in front of you. It contains the text of a play. What, then, are you to make of the words on the page before you? If the script you were examining was intended for a film or a TV play it would look different...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
Film: Creative or Cultural?
Money & Business

Film: Creative or Cultural?

...think creatively, to realise creativity is not an add-on but an essential ingredient for success”. (Chris Smith, Foreword, DCMS 2001, p. 3). This definition of creative industries is based on creativity and intellectual property. The dilemma is that, while the cultural industries can be defined as those that generate symbolic meaning, (as we have seen above), official...
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Why is the time right for Donald Trump's style of charismatic leadership?
Society, Politics & Law

Why is the time right for Donald Trump's style of charismatic leadership?

...find a charismatic successor. If Trump stumbles enough to reveal a weakness, and his supporters are willing to see it, this particular anti-establishment movement could disappear and more quickly than one might think. Unless, of course, they find someone who can step into Trump’s shoes. This article was originally published by Sociological Images under a CC-BY licence...
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