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The Oldest Generation
Society, Politics & Law

The Oldest Generation

...document their day to day routines, with the aim of showing how major events affect the lives of the older generation... The Oldest Generation project Using diary excerpts, this audio track documents the lives of older people, how and why certain family relationships endure or change over time, and how these processes affect the lives of members of the oldest generation....
An introduction to social work law
Society, Politics & Law

An introduction to social work law

...family member for their response. A social worker ... Now separate your responses into positive and negative attributes. Ask yourself what may have influenced your observations and note this down in the last column. Table 1 Your positive and negative observations of social workers POSITIVE NEGATIVE INFLUENCE Words: 0 Finally, what impact do you think each perception might...
Life in the Palaeozoic
Nature & Environment

Life in the Palaeozoic

...tree-sized clubmosses, seed plants and tree ferns and smaller, ground-covering ferns. These plants supported a wide variety of invertebrate life, including many arthropods, which provided abundant food for the carnivorous land-living tetrapods...Life in the Palaeozoic: 6.2 An outline of vertebrate evolution - Let's now place the early evolution of tetrapods in perspective...
Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Exploring Virginia Woolf’s Between the Acts
History & The Arts

Exploring Virginia Woolf’s Between the Acts

...family live. The novel has no main character; instead interest is diffused among generations of that family: Old Bartholomew, his sister Mrs Swithin, his son Giles, Giles’s wife Isabella and their small son George. The family’s servants, their visitors, Mrs Manresa, her friend William Dodge as well as numerous characters who live in the village all appear in the...
Applying social work law to asylum and immigration
Society, Politics & Law

Applying social work law to asylum and immigration

...families and the murder of a Syrian refugee in Edinburgh in 2018 heightened public awareness of this issue. Nevertheless, across the UK there is significant evidence of hostility towards asylum seekers and confusion and ignorance of the facts. Therefore, one of the first things that social workers committed to anti-discriminatory practice may have to address is a lack of...
Citizen science and global biodiversity Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Citizen science and global biodiversity

...family tree for each species. The third technique described here is automated species identification. The computer analyses an image or a sound recording and compares it with a large database of derived information from correctly identified examples of each species. This technique has the potential for rapid species identification and has become increasingly accurate over...
Understanding Fitness to Practise
Health, Sports & Psychology

Understanding Fitness to Practise

...family member had died or believed that someone seriously harmed them. The project involved input from members of the public, regulators, professionals, employers, lawyers and the public. Its aim was to find out about public experiences of the Fitness to Practise process and what regulators can do to improve it. As part of the project, the OpenLearn course Improving...
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Education & Development

Get in touch

...familial learning, topics or specific initiatives relevant to learning within and across formal schooling. The resources are offered at different learning levels, suitable for anyone receiving or facilitating home education, including those who work with home-educating families. While we can’t guarantee that there is content on every topic area, we will continue to add...
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