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Should the NHS have been better prepared for the cyber-highwaymen?
Science, Maths & Technology

Should the NHS have been better prepared for the cyber-highwaymen?

...systems throughout much of the NHS on Friday was preventable, explains Conor Deane-McKenna...[Highwaymen - Sixteen String Jack, Claude Duval, Tom King and Dick Turpin - celebrate their crimes] Stand and deliver: Your money or your files? In a matter of hours, the NHS was effectively placed on lockdown with computer systems being held ransom and further machines powered...
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Article 5 mins
Vanessa Berlowitz - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Vanessa Berlowitz - Earth in Vision

...system and I think that’s really important. So I’m hoping one of the series I’ll do in the future will be actually about anthropology and looking at people today and the big biological challenges that we face and how we’ve solved them with different cultural solutions. The value of archive I think that the archive is a complete untapped resource. I’m absolutely...
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The law and social work in Scotland
Health, Sports & Psychology

The law and social work in Scotland

...system. The tracks analyse the role of the family in Scottish life in relation to the many voluntary bodies that exist to assist and inform them, and the legal obligations of social workers. Participants from single mothers to solicitors presented their perspectives in a series of frank, informative interviews. This material forms part of The Open University course K207...
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Canals: The Making of a Nation - Find out more
History & The Arts

Canals: The Making of a Nation - Find out more

...system, workers' rights and civil engineering...Dive deeper into the history of how canals shaped a nation with OpenLearn. For more information on the TV programme, Canals: The Making of a Nation, see the series page and episode guide here. Here, you can find out more about: the canal capitalists the canal workers the canal engineers The canal capitalists [Canal boat...
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Growing the popularity of women’s football: an update
Health, Sports & Psychology

Growing the popularity of women’s football: an update

...thinking that learns from the failings of the boys’ system. There has undoubtedly been much progress in the women’s game since 2022. Some change has happened quickly, while other changes are still taking time. Without question though a successful defence of the European Championship this summer will be a great help and contribute to even more progress and development....
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Race, ethnicity and crime
Society, Politics & Law

Race, ethnicity and crime

...system provide examples of some of the ways in which critical criminology has conceptually approached and researched ‘race’ and ethnicity...Race, ethnicity and crime: The US, Australia and the UK - The relationship between race and ethnicity and crime and criminology is characterised by conflict, dispute and contestation. The focus of explanatory concern for critical...
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Level 3: Advanced 1 hr
Robert Owen and New Lanark
History & The Arts

Robert Owen and New Lanark

...thinking in the essays in A New View of Society understand the main proposals in the essays understand New Lanark's role as a model for social reform during this period...Robert Owen and New Lanark: 1 A New View of Society - Some of Robert Owen's ideas were confirmed by personal experience as a philanthropic employer who strongly emphasised the importance of environment,...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Business operations
Science, Maths & Technology

Business operations

...systems Fuller's brewery: Management The day to day management of the brewery and the challenges it presents Introducing the case studies The importance of operations management to business and how the principals remain the same regardless of the business involved Summing up the case studies The importance of good operations managers in all industries and services Vue:...
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