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What is female genital mutilation (FGM)?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What is female genital mutilation (FGM)?

...at Welsh-speaking higher education students studying in Wales and beyond. NHS Choices www.NHS.uk NHS Mental Health Support https://www.nhs.uk/nhs-services/mental-health-services/ nidirect Mental Health Support www.nidirect.gov.uk Samaritans www.samaritans.org SHOUT Shout 85258 Student Minds https://studentminds.org.uk/ Text About It (Republic of Ireland) Text About It...
Innovation in policing
Society, Politics & Law

Innovation in policing

...studying this course, you should be able to: outline various ways in which innovation can be understood and how it differs from other, related concepts such as creativity discuss key forms of innovation in policing outline key methods and frameworks for innovation discuss ways in which organisations can become more innovative outline the role of leaders and leadership in...
Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Health and safety in the laboratory and field
Science, Maths & Technology

Health and safety in the laboratory and field

...study in Science...Health and safety in the laboratory and field: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: understand the legal framework of the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974 and Regulations associated with it understand the employers’, employees’ and visitors’ duties evaluate hazards and risks in order to carry out a risk...
Listening to young children: supporting transition
Education & Development

Listening to young children: supporting transition

...studying this course, you should be able to: discuss how listening to children as they prepare for and experience transition can help them to make meaning of their new situation outline the discontinuities that children can experience as they transition to new environments explain how boundary objects and learning stories can provide an opportunity to listen to...
A Europe of the Regions?
Society, Politics & Law

A Europe of the Regions?

...skill in any kind of academic study is to be able to summarise an argument, and then assess it critically by looking for flaws in the evidence or in the logic. That is what you should do here. As a final exercise, try to answer these two questions: Briefly summarise the main points of the argument against the likelihood of a ‘Europe of the Regions’. Answer The idea is...
Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Yellow Fever: An OpenLearn reading list
Health, Sports & Psychology

Yellow Fever: An OpenLearn reading list

...studied in detail the passage of yellow fever through a community, attempting to define the incubation period of the disease. Josiah Clark Nott, a Connecticut native, settled in Alabama, had opportunity to study yellow fever at close hand in Alabama. In one epidemic affecting Mobile, he lost four of his children, even though he had moved them to the country, outside of...
Rio 2016: A short Paralympics reading list
Health, Sports & Psychology

Rio 2016: A short Paralympics reading list

...study finds There's a crucial way in which the Paralympics isn't equal to the Olympics Although Paralympians train hard for their games, and make similar sacrifices to the Olympians, their rewards aren't always equal: For all her hard work though, [US sking and basketball champion Alana] Nichols' medals are worth less than those of Olympians. That's because Paralympians...
Measure the Pulfrich Effect
Science, Maths & Technology

Measure the Pulfrich Effect

...study a little further, to discover something new for yourself. Taking the measurements You will need to make a number of measurements, which are indicated in Figure 3, and then carry out some simple calculations which are described in the next section. [Figure three] Figure 3 Measurements to be taken for the experiment. D is the distance from viewer to actual pendulum...