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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

...researching and writing about how to improve patient care reset the path of geriatrics in the UK and, eventually, more widely in the world. South Asian Heritage is thus woven into the fabric of this most British institution, the National Health Service. Acknowledgement: The study 'Overseas-trained doctors and the development of geriatric medicine', ESRC funded RES...
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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

...research into Level 1 Computing modules revealed the structural and institutional barriers behind the degree awarding gap and practical ways to close it...The COVID-19 pandemic shone a harsh light on the entrenched inequalities that shape the educational experiences of ethnic minority students in UK higher education. At The Open University, our eSTEeM-funded project...
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How technology can challenge our understanding of Frankenstein
History & The Arts

How technology can challenge our understanding of Frankenstein

...Research Fellow in Digital Humanities at The Open University, believes specialised text analysis software can help us develop new insights into classic literature...When Mary Shelley published her iconic Gothic novel two hundred years ago in 1818, she probably did not imagine it would continue to be read and reprinted into the twenty-first century. Like many other works...
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Improving the everyday lives of carers
Health, Sports & Psychology

Improving the everyday lives of carers

...research has shown that despite the various white papers from the UK Government supporting carers and the introduction of the Carer’s Assessment and Carer’s Allowance, many carers feel undervalued by society and looked down on by some people because of their caring role. Some carers, especially those who are full-time carers, feel excluded from society and may also...
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The meaning of home in later life
Health, Sports & Psychology

The meaning of home in later life

...research on the domestic kitchen by McGuire et al (2014) shows how people aged 60 to 90 yrs experience problems with bending, reaching, reading dials and having a place to sit. This makes this hub of the home problematic. Some continually adapt their housing to make it more ‘homely’ but this depends on resources, skills and recognition of ageing needs by the retail...
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How to be a critical reader
Languages

How to be a critical reader

...Children like sweets. a. (i) All women like fashion. b. (ii) Drinking too much wine can be bad for your health. c. (iii) Studying abroad can be quite challenging. d. (iv) Children like sweets. The correct answers are a and d. Answer The sweeping generalisations are: (i) All women like fashion and (iv) Children like sweets. At university it is considered that writers...
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Level 2: Intermediate 7 hrs
Practice supervision and assessment in nursing
Health, Sports & Psychology

Practice supervision and assessment in nursing

...Research Centre School of Nursing, Midwifery and Community health. Duffy, K. (2013) ‘Providing constructive feedback to students during mentoring’. Nursing Standard, pp. 27, 31, 50–6. Hardavella, G., Aamli-Gaagnat, A., Saad, N., Rousalova, I. and Sreter, K.B. (2017) ‘How to give and receive feedback effectively’. Breathe (Sheff), 13(4), pp. 327–33. Available...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Hero and villain: Robert Clive of the East India Company
History & The Arts

Hero and villain: Robert Clive of the East India Company

...centre with the caption 'The Madras Tyrant or the Director of Directors' above it. ] Etching satirizing Robert Clive, 1772 National Army Museum Collection Why is there a statue celebrating Robert Clive outside the Foreign Office? It was not Robert Clive’s contemporaries, or the Victorians, who erected the statue in London. Indeed, Victorian governments were embarrassed...
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