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Valuing death at home: making preparations
Health, Sports & Psychology

Valuing death at home: making preparations

...Social Care qualifications. In this second of a series of OpenLearn articles linking to The Ageing Well Public Talks (AWPT) Series structured around Five Pillars for Ageing Well that runs every year at The Open University, we are going to discuss how we could prepare for a home death. Earlier in the AWPT Series, we discussed Advance Care Planning presented by Barbara and...
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What is the relationship between history and historical fiction?
History & The Arts

What is the relationship between history and historical fiction?

...social fieldwork, all the location visiting, all the garnering of what is or what has been, must be reimagined before it can find a place in the text. It must rise into the orbit of the anarchic, gift-conjuring, unknowing part of the novelist’s mind before it can acquire its own truth for the work in question. Graham Greene, when asked by journalists how he would make...
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Global English
History & The Arts

Global English

...social networking which allow individuals to stay in touch simultaneously with friends, family and work colleagues with different language backgrounds. The evidence points to a growing tolerance of multiple standards in English and growing flexibility and fluidity in the use of English by global citizens. [Signage in English and Chinese [Image: Augapfel under CC-BY...
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Foreign games consoles finally enter the Chinese market
Money & Business

Foreign games consoles finally enter the Chinese market

...social order.” This is an excerpt from the notice: 自本意见发布之日起，面向国内的电子游戏设备及其零、附件生产、销售即行停止。任何企业、个人不得再从事面向国内的电子游戏设备及其零、附件的生产、销售活动。一经发现向电子游戏经营场所销售电子游戏设备及其零、附件的，由经贸...
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Reducing the carbon footprint of on-premises IT
Nature & Environment

Reducing the carbon footprint of on-premises IT

...social media and online meetings. Vampire devices Around 20% of a typical building’s energy consumption, and therefore energy related carbon emissions, comes from devices that continue to drain electricity supplies when seemingly ‘off’. These are devices that are plugged in and either forgotten about or deemed to be using inconsequential amounts of energy. As an...
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Volunteering in the education sector
Education & Development

Volunteering in the education sector

...social media, organising raffles, and translating documents. “Play to your strengths,” Einir says. “Find something you’re interested in, and use the skills and experiences you already have in order to give something back.” Any more advice for someone thinking of volunteering? “Start small and don’t be afraid to give it a go. You may find it snowballs from...
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Fit for office - the dark triad and selection of MPs
Society, Politics & Law

Fit for office - the dark triad and selection of MPs

...social media campaigns by right-wing interests and the agendas of wealthy corporate individual and foreign politicians that are only now becoming clear as campaign funding issues are becoming exposed Selection of politicians and the ‘Dark Triad’ in politics Part of the problem is that the assessment processes for ensuring that MPs are fit to practice as trustworthy...
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Nursing associate career pathways - not just the ‘top-up’
Health, Sports & Psychology

Nursing associate career pathways - not just the ‘top-up’

...social model of care that enables elderly people to get out of their homes to meet others and also get their leg redressed as well. From this service Caroline can refer to the wider PCN such occupational therapists, physiotherapists etc., as required. Charlotte’s story [Photo of Charlotte]Charlotte (pictured right) qualified as a NA in 2021. Her background had been in...
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