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Working with children and families
Health, Sports & Psychology

Working with children and families

...course K204 Working with children and families... Working with children and families A brief introduction to this album. Families and origin Husband and father Calvin Wilkes discusses his attitudes to family life and living as part of a second-generation immigrant family. Life as a single parent Three different takes on aspects of family life involving divorce and living...
Why are maggots making a comeback in hospitals?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Why are maggots making a comeback in hospitals?

...course of medical science,” said the microbiologist Milton Wainwright. It was “a therapy the demise of which no one is likely to mourn”. A tsunami of hard-to-heal wounds, however, brought this backwater back to the forefront of medicine. Wounds go through a series of stages to close and heal. After bleeding stops, white blood cells flock to the scene to break down...
Jorge Luis Borges: A short reading list
History & The Arts

Jorge Luis Borges: A short reading list

...course. As a young man, he idealised the Buenos Aires underworld—its knife fighters provided him with a recurring theme. Yet in a conscious snub to Argentine nationalism, he chose to die in Geneva. Read at The Economist: Sightless seer of Buenos Aires Borges film reviewing career ended by the time he was 55, when his degenerative eye disease left him totally blind....
What should I expect when I am nearing the end of my life?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What should I expect when I am nearing the end of my life?

...courses and qualifications. In the UK, many deaths occur in hospital and few people have witnessed someone dying. This article addresses some of the common key questions people have about dying and the end of life, written by a palliative care consultant, Victoria Hedges, as part of The Ageing Well Public Talk (AWPT) Series. In this first of a series of four OpenLearn...
What can we expect at the 2021 Tokyo Olympic Games?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What can we expect at the 2021 Tokyo Olympic Games?

...course and includes stairs, handrails, benches, and walls. Athletes are judged based on originality and execution, and the number of tricks they perform. American skater Nyjah Huston has won more prize money than any other skater in history and has over 4.5 million Instagram followers. Park skateboarding takes place on a hollowed-out course that features curves and deep...
The OU Welcomes Carers
Health, Sports & Psychology

The OU Welcomes Carers

...courses. The long-term shift towards an ageing population, lower use of institutional care, improved longevity of those with lifelong disabilities and reduced expenditure on public services means the number of family carers is rising and predicted to continue to rise. As a result, caring will touch most of our lives; more than three in five of us will be a carer at some...
The Peace Dividend: why Good Friday Agreement matters to us and Earth
Society, Politics & Law

The Peace Dividend: why Good Friday Agreement matters to us and Earth

...course a precondition for lasting peace and reconciliation and remains the most significant reason why the Good Friday Agreement matters. However, the economic foundations of this peace, the structure of the economy in the North and who benefits from the spoils of economic activity, are fundamentally unsustainable in social and environmental terms. It would be unfair to...
The role sustainable chemistry plays in shaping the planet's future
Science, Maths & Technology

The role sustainable chemistry plays in shaping the planet's future

...courses. Sustainable use of resources must be considered because fossil fuels and other mined commodities are being depleted, and there is increasing demand from humanity. Achieving sustainability involves many challenges, from preserving resources to tackling pollution arising from plastics, persistent organic pollutants and gaseous emissions. These pollutants are...