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We might end up being looked after by robots. How do we prepare for that?
Science, Maths & Technology

We might end up being looked after by robots. How do we prepare for that?

...simple, designed for a child and intended to teach users about diet and diabetes. I sit opposite Charlie, my diminutive fellow player. Between us is a touch screen. Our task is to identify which of a dozen various foodstuffs are high or low in carbohydrate. By dragging their images we can sort them into the appropriate groups. Charlie is polite, rising to greet me when I...
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Forensic science and fingerprints
Health, Sports & Psychology

Forensic science and fingerprints

...simple and informal classification of the fingerprints, rather like a signature. But it is perhaps the first sign of recognition that a person's fingerprints are unique to that person - something that is still considered to be true today and forms one of the foundations of individual identification. The process of 'matching' individuals and things to a crime scene that...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
The power of infographics in research dissemination
Education & Development

The power of infographics in research dissemination

...simple question with a really simple answer. Who has the biggest military budget? It's got to be America, right? Massive. 609 billion in 2008 - 607, rather. So massive, in fact, that it can contain all the other military budgets in the world inside itself. Gobble, gobble, gobble, gobble. Now you can see, Africa's total debt there and the UK budget deficit for reference....
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Level 2: Intermediate 7 hrs
Introduction to UK immigration law and becoming an immigration adviser
Society, Politics & Law

Introduction to UK immigration law and becoming an immigration adviser

...Code of Standards: OISC (2016) Commissioner’s Code of Standards: 2016 [online], https://www.gov.uk/ government/ publications/ oisc-code-of-standards-commissioners-rules-2012 Reproduced under the terms of the Open Goverment Licence http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ doc/ open-government-licence. Video Video 1: OU (images: Craig F Scott/Shutterstock;...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
Past-Time Lover: Amelia Earhart
History & The Arts

Past-Time Lover: Amelia Earhart

...want you to understand I shall not hold you to any midaevil [sic] code of faithfulness to more nor shall I consider myself bound to you similarly’. I believe in equal responsibility and will be known by my own name, as I always have done. My life is my own and I intend to make the most of it. Does Amelia make your heart soar? Cast your vote! Illustrator: Neil Arnold...
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Can science make you a better leader?
Money & Business

Can science make you a better leader?

...code displayed by the leaders. Free your people What also emerged from the research was the damaging effect of operating in a constrained environment. Where people lacked either the time or the resources, then generally the first thing to be sacrificed was a focus on purpose and ethics. As one leader in a central government department said: “When you work really, really...
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What's life like for Jordan's LGBTQ community?
Society, Politics & Law

What's life like for Jordan's LGBTQ community?

...Code in 1951. However, decriminalization alone has not ensured complete freedom for members of Jordan's LGBT community. Article Six of the Jordanian Constitution protects citizens from discrimination on the basis of race, language or religion, but these protections do not extend to people of variant sexual identity. This gray area is where discrimination still manages to...
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Home education for children with special educational needs
Education & Development

Home education for children with special educational needs

...Code of Practice https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/send-code-of-practice-0-to-25 EYFS https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/early-years-foundation-stage-framework--2 Bower, C. (2019) ‘“Um, I was getting bullied at school because I didn’t believe in god”: one family’s experience of autism, school and home education’, International journal of...
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