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Teaching equality: unconscious bias in education
Education & Development

Teaching equality: unconscious bias in education

...picture. Higher Education does. Not engaging with the problem of unconscious bias in mainstream education is devastating for both young people and the higher education sector as HE access is not even considered by these excluded cohorts. Universities lead the way in education. Could there be a way that they can use their research to lead the way in calling for change?...
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Is your social media use impacting your future?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Is your social media use impacting your future?

...University's Nursing and Healthcare courses and qualifications. In the digital age, almost all of us have a ‘digital footprint’. This is the data you leave behind when you engage with the Internet and can include social media ‘likes’, posts, pictures or emails. In other words, we have some information about us on the Internet; this could be something as simple as...
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Decision trees and dealing with uncertainty
Money & Business

Decision trees and dealing with uncertainty

...guide you through numerous examples...This free course introduces basic ideas of probability. It focuses on dealing with uncertainty in a financial context and explores decision trees, a powerful decision-making technique, which can help you to simplify and formulate business decisions. The course also includes videos that introduce the key ideas and guide you through...
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Level 3: Advanced 5 hrs
London inside out
Society, Politics & Law

London inside out

...universal future. (It is in fact only one possible future, and even if it comes to pass for London and for other places, it may nonetheless exist in a world in which there are other futures too.) I would prefer to read such words, therefore, as a statement of political commitment. Not just as a description, nor as a claim to be at the front of some posited singular...
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Adaptation and Assimilation: The Irish Catholic Experience in America
OpenLearn Ireland

Adaptation and Assimilation: The Irish Catholic Experience in America

...University marches in the Dublin St. Patrick’s Day parade in 2014. [A marching band from Louisiana State University marches in the Dublin St. Patrick’s Day parade in 2014.] The Irish Diaspora in America and Ireland today The Irish diaspora in America continues to play an important role in shaping Ireland’s present and future. In recent decades, successive Irish...
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Sperm counts
Nature & Environment

Sperm counts

...University's Science courses and qualifications. [Zeron Gibson and Mike Leahy] Lab Rats Mike Leahy and Zeron Gibson Although I'm a biologist, I rarely think much about what the cloudy white stuff contains, but in fact semen is far more complex than my endearing childhood image of mini tadpoles swimming around in thin wallpaper paste. There are many features of human semen...
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Supporting young trans people’s rights to health and happiness
Education & Development

Supporting young trans people’s rights to health and happiness

...universally accepted human rights treaties in history. It’s been ratified by the UK along with all other countries in the world, apart from the USA. Article 12 enshrines the rights of every child to express their views, feelings and wishes in any matters affecting them – and to have these taken seriously. These rights are enshrined in the concept of ‘Gillick...
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Travelling for culture: the Grand Tour
History & The Arts

Travelling for culture: the Grand Tour

...University course A112 Cultures....Travelling for culture: the Grand Tour: Introduction - In the eighteenth century and into the early part of the nineteenth, considerable numbers of aristocratic men (and sometimes women) travelled across Europe in pursuit of education, social advancement and entertainment, on what was known as the Grand Tour. A central objective was to...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs