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Planning a better future
Education & Development

Planning a better future

...work after a break, and those who might be looking to aspire to better things...Planning a better future is an introductory course for anyone considering changing jobs, wondering how to move up the ladder or return to work after a break, and those who might be looking to aspire to better things....Introduction and guidance: Introduction and guidance - Planning a better...
Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Teaching secondary science
Education & Development

Teaching secondary science

...working in school. It sets out to explore some of the key issues around teaching science in secondary schools. Engaging with these issues and debates will help you to reflect upon and develop your practice as a science teacher. You will also develop a greater awareness of the wider context of science education and how this affects science in the secondary school...
Level 3: Advanced 11 hrs
Making a difference: Janet Cassidy's life as a union representative
Society, Politics & Law

Making a difference: Janet Cassidy's life as a union representative

...working terms and conditions for women. Now retired, she continues to campaign on issues affecting women proving an inspiration to so many, including Mandie Walton who interviewed her for an oral history testimony...Find out more about The Open University's History and Social Sciences courses Janet started working in the railway in 1986 as a Ticket Examiner on board...
The women of the Gorbals’ Campaign for Social Justice, 1923
Society, Politics & Law

The women of the Gorbals’ Campaign for Social Justice, 1923

...work. The circumstances that led the “impressionable girl” (The Weekly News, 10 February 1923) to be deceived by two men became well known, because after five years of imprisonment her mother and sister began a newspaper campaign for justice. Full-page articles were first published in The Weekly News, the biggest selling Scottish newspaper, to gain local public...
Careers education and guidance
Education & Development

Careers education and guidance

...work-based training or university, or into work at any age – are life-enhancing for individuals and crucial to our future social and economic well-being. They are also an indicator of a good school. This free course, Careers education and guidance (CEG), discusses what a school's personal development programme should provide, and how all teachers have a role in securing...
Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Why use literature reviews in health and social care?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Why use literature reviews in health and social care?

...work with older people, cessation of cigarette smoking in pregnant women and use of mindfulness therapy with respect to older people with dementia and their carers...Why use literature reviews in health and social care? is a free course which introduces and explains how literature reviews can support evidence-based practice in health and social care. A literature review...
Scoring the Shoreline
History & The Arts

Scoring the Shoreline

...work, a giver and taker of lives and livelihoods. At the same time, it is a zone of leisure and pleasure, innocent pastimes, robust healthy exercise, over-indulgence and covert assignations. In each of these ways and more the sounds of the seaside are deeply engrained in our cultural consciousness. Music plays a fundamental role energising these imaginings. From the...
Home education: levelling the playing field or increasing inequalities?
Education & Development

Home education: levelling the playing field or increasing inequalities?

...work schedules. My research findings were based on interviews with 12 young people aged between 14-19 years old, originally due to sit exams in Summer 2021. I interviewed the students six weeks before the new teacher assessments were due in May. I completed a parent survey alongside the interviews which received over 400 participants. It showed EHE students typically had...