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Continuity and learning
Education & Development

Continuity and learning

...become an occupational therapist. As high as you can, stretch your legs out, Ryan. Whoops! Where are you going? Excellent. That is fantastic. I left school at 16 and went and did A levels, sort of sixth-form education. And then went to university for a few months, to study Law and Spanish. Found that wasn’t for me, didn’t enjoy it at all. So that I went into NatWest...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Partnerships and networks in work with young people
Health, Sports & Psychology

Partnerships and networks in work with young people

...students, developing a peer education project on homelessness. The school funded some of the work and I’ve put in my own time and some additional hours for a part-time worker. Some of my team now operate a sexual health service in the youth centre at lunchtime – in cooperation with the school nurse and a specialist sexual health worker in the voluntary sector. I’ve...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Approaching plays
History & The Arts

Approaching plays

...student of literature, you are sitting at home with a book open in front of you. It contains the text of a play. What, then, are you to make of the words on the page before you? If the script you were examining was intended for a film or a TV play it would look different from the examples that follow, since these media focus more on the visual aspect, and the conventions...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
Biological, psychological and social complexities in childhood development
Health, Sports & Psychology

Biological, psychological and social complexities in childhood development

...become apparent for a person with a learning disability during various important events, such as life transitions from child to adult. For example, there are not only the biological and psychological changes for the individual and their families or carers, but also the social changes, including the transition from child to adult services, school to college etc. It is...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Professional relationships with young people
Health, Sports & Psychology

Professional relationships with young people

...students or work colleagues, with teachers or managers? Are they respected or bullied? What resources do they have? What are their main sources of support, financially and emotionally, and how reliable are these supports? What are their main ambitions in life, and what are the main obstacles standing in their way? Discussion As Reid and Fielding suggest, ‘Identifying...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Introduction to business agility
Money & Business

Introduction to business agility

...student course, for example, are you pitching that on the internet? Are you detecting the downloads? Are you detecting the interest levels? What's the smallest slice of behavioral feedback you can get to detect whether the thing that you're trying to do is heading in the right direction, is of use. And so that's your leading indicators. And if you have enough leading...
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Level 1: Introductory 2 hrs
Getting started with Italian 3
Languages

Getting started with Italian 3

...OU is the leader in online learning and teaching with a heritage of more than 50 years helping student achieve their learning ambitions. The short courses are underpinned by academic rigour and designed by native speakers experienced in producing engaging materials for online learning of languages and cultures. The graduating nature of the courses means that learners can...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Budget 2016: The Experts Respond
Society, Politics & Law

Budget 2016: The Experts Respond

...become reality. Business Stephen Roper, professor of enterprise, University of Warwick Against a backdrop of continuing austerity at home and political and economic uncertainty across Europe, Osborne announced significant measures to reduce costs for the UK’s smallest firms. Changes to the small business rate relief will mean around 600,000 of the UK’s smallest...
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Article 10 mins