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Meet the OU experts behind 'Hospital'
Health, Sports & Psychology

Meet the OU experts behind 'Hospital'

...working within Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust and were able to showcase the impact of decision making as a result of increasing healthcare demands on staff and patient care interventions at all levels of the organisation. Over six episodes you will see staff working within highly stressed environments – often having to manage resource demands that don’t stretch...
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Article 10 mins
Why Brexit would be bad for employment rights
Society, Politics & Law

Why Brexit would be bad for employment rights

...work, no right to a daily rest period, no laws to prevent employers discriminating against workers who are disabled or who have particular religious beliefs, and no right for employees to take time off work to look after a sick child. This was the UK before the New Labour government was elected in 1997. Since then a substantial number of employment rights have been...
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Professional relationships with young people
Health, Sports & Psychology

Professional relationships with young people

...working practices which can inform work with young people...In some people's eyes the development of relationships is a good end in itself, as it is in relationships that we express our humanity. Young people with few good-quality relationships in their lives often find that entering into informal relationships with adults who respect, accept, like and really listen to...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Continuity and learning
Education & Development

Continuity and learning

...work. To complete this OpenLearn course you will write a short draft of the key points of the interview and reflect on your own learning biography...This free course, Continuity and learning, has a practical and professional development focus. You will explore interactive dimensions of workplace learning: how people and workplace cultures create formal, informal, planned...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Human Resource Management and EDI
Money & Business

Human Resource Management and EDI

...work is governed by the Equality Act 2010, which is a development of the Equal Pay Act 1970, the Sex Discrimination Act 1975 and the Race Relations Act 1976. In the UK, implementation of the EqA 2010 is overseen and monitored by the statutory body the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC), established in 2007. Enforcement of this Commission’s mandate varies, but...
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Level 3: Advanced 2 hrs
David Bowie faces the last taboo
History & The Arts

David Bowie faces the last taboo

...work showed him taking on the taboo of death with the vigour he'd used to break barriers of gender and identity, says Elizabeth Tilley...Listening last night to Blackstar – David Bowie’s final album, released just three days before his death - I was struck by its beauty, but also its pace and freneticism. These tracks, like all those that preceded them, had something...
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Understanding Social Change
Society, Politics & Law

Understanding Social Change

...work, the balance of state and individual. Welfare - who's responsible? Controversy surrounding responsibility for welfare and the sections of society who contribute. Work - who does what? Shift in kinds of people working and work they do. Does ‘flexible’ employment mean more insecure employment? Consequences of opening up the market to global competition. Promoting...
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Music in Code
History & The Arts

Music in Code

...works, producing specific musical effects such as vibrato and trills. Musical Box The manufacture and repertoire of a 19th century cylinder musical box. Pin Disk Musical Box Experts compare disc versus cylinder design. The Paper Roll: Reiterating Piano The piano melodica. How book music is made, how the mechanism works and how to add expression to the music. The Paper...
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Audio 29 mins