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Starting with Maths
Science, Maths & Technology

Starting with Maths

...everyday life. We hear the experiences of people who rely heavily on accurate calculations for the success of their jobs. In addition to this we look into the lives of 12 OU students as they explain how studying makes them feel ‘on top of the world’. This material forms part of the course: Y162 Starting with maths... Starting with Maths A short introduction to this...
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The language used during end of life care matters
Health, Sports & Psychology

The language used during end of life care matters

...everyday language to describe something technical. And there are a lot of examples of unclear language in palliative and end of life care, where euphuisms are used either to make a ‘difficult subject’ easier or to obscure the lack of certainty there can be around death. Rarely in the absence of medical treatment is there an absence of care. Indeed, often clinical and...
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Dementia Awareness: What is dementia, and how can we reduce the risk?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Dementia Awareness: What is dementia, and how can we reduce the risk?

...everyday series of tasks such as cooking Inability to judge distances such as the stairs Trouble handling money, particularly in shops Changes in personality or mood Depression Can I reduce the risk of getting dementia? About a fifth of people think it's impossible to reduce their risk of dementia. However, there is a vast amount of evidence showing seven simple lifestyle...
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The social in social science
Society, Politics & Law

The social in social science

...everyday life raises questions about how detached social research should attempt to be. The relationship between the researcher and those being studied thus becomes a dialogue, rather than the social scientist simply imposing an authoritative voice upon the object in question. In this way, social scientific practice not only opens up new options for how we study the...
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Level 3: Advanced 15 hrs
OpenLearn Champions Hub | Hafan Hyrwyddwyr OpenLearn old
Education & Development

OpenLearn Champions Hub | Hafan Hyrwyddwyr OpenLearn old

...English For the full selection of courses on OpenLearn Wales follow this link. OpenLearn Champions is an exciting Open University in Wales advocacy programme that helps break down barriers to learning and widen access to higher education and higher-level skills. Our OpenLearn Champions help to inspire a love of learning and support adults across Wales to develop skills,...
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What does the head of Ofsted do?
Society, Politics & Law

What does the head of Ofsted do?

...English system and not simply denigrate unions...[What does the head of Ofsted do cartoon, society matters] Ministers are thought to be looking to the US, Canada and northern Europe in their search for the next chief inspector of schools. With the current head of Ofsted, Michael Wilshaw, due to step down in December at the end of his term, secretary of state Nicky Morgan...
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Charles Dickens, Race and Colonialism
History & The Arts

Charles Dickens, Race and Colonialism

...English, explores…...In the summer of 2020, Black Lives Matter and Rhodes Must Fall targeted sculptural monuments – notably statues of the slave-trader merchant Edward Colston in Bristol and the financier, empire builder and benefactor Cecil Rhodes in Oxford – to condemn the legacy of slavery and imperialism they tacitly condoned. These attacks may have prompted a...
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The Celtic origins of the Welsh language
Languages

The Celtic origins of the Welsh language

...English, Dutch and German all belong to the Germanic branch, while French, Spanish and Italian belong to the Italic branch. This means that the Germanic languages all evolved from a common language and the Italic languages from another. Yet both of these had evolved earlier from a much older common language which is now called proto-Indo-European. In the same way, all the...
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