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Environment: treading lightly on the Earth
Nature & Environment

Environment: treading lightly on the Earth

...becomes 0.1666 × 100% = 17% (rounded appropriately – you will learn more about rounding later). This is a positive value, so it indicates a percentage increase. Note that to calculate a percentage change, you always divide by the original (earlier) value regardless of it being numerically larger or smaller than the later one. If it is larger than the later value, then...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Legal skills and debates in Scotland Badge icon
Society, Politics & Law

Legal skills and debates in Scotland

...students when asked this question. [Described image] Figure 4Responses of some of our students to the law Your future studies on this course will either reinforce or challenge your initial ideas and impressions. Making a record of your initial impressions enables you to recognise your pre-existing knowledge and your personal values which relate to law. An understanding of...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Employee engagement
Money & Business

Employee engagement

...becomes important for organisations to marry training with the perception of internal opportunities. To maximise long-term loyalty and engagement, young employees should be given the opportunity to apply their new skills and take on more responsibility. Internal promotion opportunities need to be communicated effectively and recognised and rewarded accordingly. At the...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Methods in Motion: Remaking self-help
Society, Politics & Law

Methods in Motion: Remaking self-help

...OU Enduring Love? Project. Queer: A Graphic History (with artist Julia Scheele) is a comic about what queer theory is and how it might be useful in people’s lives. Moving anticlockwise to the top left, I’ve also conducted my own research into self-help, which informs my wider project. For example, Ros Gill, Laura Harvey and I are writing an academic book based on our...
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Article 5 mins
NI Electoral Dynamics, and what Good Friday Agreement did to change it
Society, Politics & Law

NI Electoral Dynamics, and what Good Friday Agreement did to change it

...OU collection exploring what Good Friday Agreement means 25 yars on This arcicle is part of "A Peace of Us", our special collection of resources exploring what the Good Friday Agreement brought to our lives in the 25 years since its signing. I often hear the refrain “nothing ever changes in this place” and “politics always stays the same” but as CS Lewis once...
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Article 5 mins
Proud of nursing associates: who they are and why they are important
Health, Sports & Psychology

Proud of nursing associates: who they are and why they are important

...OU foundation degree curriculum to support trainee nursing associates to develop professional identity. ‘A framework to effectively promote professional identity in nursing associates: a realist ethnographic study’. Open University, UK. Thurgate, C., & Griggs, C. (2023) Nursing associates 6 years on: a review of the literature. Journal of Clinical Nursing. 32,...
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Article 5 mins
The evolution of sports medicine over the last 50 Years: From the wet sponge to holistic care
Health, Sports & Psychology

The evolution of sports medicine over the last 50 Years: From the wet sponge to holistic care

...review and meta-analysis. Physician and Sportsmedicine, 42(2), 48–57. UCAS (2019). UCAS Courses Search. Retrieved March 13, 2019, from https://digital.ucas.com/search/results?SearchText=sports therapy&filters=Destination_Undergraduate Read the other articles in this collection Now take a free related course How much do you know about science in sport? Study with the OU...
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Article 5 mins
Succeed with maths: part 2 Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Succeed with maths: part 2

...becomes more important to think carefully about the answer that you will be expecting. Should it be bigger or smaller than the number you started with? Let’s have a look at an example before you have a go yourself. If you have a photograph that measures eight inches by ten inches, as shown in Figure 2, what is the total distance around the photo in feet and inches? [A...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs