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Understanding your sector Badge icon
Money & Business

Understanding your sector

...Maths, and many specific courses aimed at union officials. In addition, their research department provides research briefings for members covering a range of topics and responds to government consultations on areas related to the interests of its membership. These various services will provide different benefits to you. The advice provided on aspects of working life, such...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
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Science, Maths & Technology

Returning to STEM

...maths. The Open University has produced this course because we know there are many people, women and men, who are already qualified or experienced in STEM, but not working in these sectors. I left school at 16 with five O levels. At 25, I was a single parent with three kids, wondering how on Earth I was going to earn enough money to look after my children as they grew up....
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Level 3: Advanced 24 hrs
Understanding research with children and young people
Health, Sports & Psychology

Understanding research with children and young people

...maths lessons, or what other young people understand about money, for example, can be fascinating. 3: Wanting to learn what it is like to do social research. [A group of young students in a classroom setting. One student is presenting the the others, which the teacher watching on.] Discussion Most children and young people have experience of project work at school (i.e....
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
Hybrid working: change management
Money & Business

Hybrid working: change management

...math. It's just kind of the way it is. And so there might be inhibitors around my style or capability to learn certain things. And then resources, what time do I have available? What resources do I have available to help me learn? Now interestingly, from an ad car observation perspective, knowledge is the knee-jerk default reaction. We have a change we need employees to...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Manufacturing
Science, Maths & Technology

Manufacturing

...maths easier! Because the circumference is 2πr, and the wheel turns 2π radians in the same time that the circumference is 'moved' this distance, the angular velocity in radians is simply: For our two wheels with radii r 1 and r 2, we have that and Since at the point of contact v 1 = v 2, combining these two expressions gives The fraction r 1/r 2 defines the gear ratio...
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Level 1: Introductory 20 hrs
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Education & Development

Young children, the outdoors and nature

...Maths: A Playful, Outdoor Approach for Early Years, Carmarthen: Independent Thinking Press. Strong-Wilson, T. and Ellis, J. (2007) ‘Children and place: Reggio Emilia’s environment as third teacher’, Theory Into Practice, 46(1), pp. 40–7. Tovey, H. (2017) Outdoor Play and Exploration. The Froebel Trust. Available at: https://www.froebel.org.uk/ uploads/ documents/...
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Level 2: Intermediate 24 hrs
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Education & Development

Becoming an ethical researcher

...maths, teachers PE are competent sports folk, and those who teach French surely can speak it. We wouldn't expect a French teacher not to be able to be confident within the language. Yet partly in the way higher education is structured, teachers of English and literacy and primary-secondary schools are more likely to have taken English literature as an A level or degree in...
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Level 3: Advanced 18 hrs
Economics and the 2008 crisis: a Keynesian view
Society, Politics & Law

Economics and the 2008 crisis: a Keynesian view

...maths notation and leave out the multiplication sign. For example, in Section 6, you will see the equation of consumption C = a + bY. We write ‘bY’ instead of writing ‘b × Y’ (with the multiplication sign ‘×’). The general rule is that when two terms are placed side by side, they are to be multiplied. The economy as modelled by the circular flow diagram,...
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Level 2: Intermediate 28 hrs