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So, you want to be a nurse? A brief introduction to nursing
Health, Sports & Psychology

So, you want to be a nurse? A brief introduction to nursing

...work within them. This includes nurses who make up the largest occupational group in the health sector. But what does it mean to be a nurse? How do people become Registered Nurses in the UK and what does their education programme look like? What types of roles are nurses in the UK working in and how do you decide if nursing is for you? [A nurse holding a clipboard...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Personal branding for career success Badge icon
Money & Business

Personal branding for career success

...work, helping you to win interesting projects, promotions and the respect of your colleagues. It will also increase your chances of being the successful candidate at job interviews or attracting clients to your business if you’re self-employed. Personal branding is a popular theme for online blog posts and articles. Individuals are encouraged to use tried and tested...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Teaching Languages for long-term memory
Languages

Teaching Languages for long-term memory

...Working memory’ refers to the very limited number of thoughts we can hold in our minds at once. Working memory is easily overloaded so instead we tend to rely on our memories. For example, drivers don’t have to think in detail about the process of driving; they learnt it and now they simply do it from memory. If you had to think in detail about everything involved in...
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Article 5 mins
Section 4: Enduring Controversies around Glasgow 1919: (Mis)representing Red Clydeside?
Society, Politics & Law

Section 4: Enduring Controversies around Glasgow 1919: (Mis)representing Red Clydeside?

...working-class leadership. Working class understandings and views are much harder to reconstruct because these represent the experiences of the mass of ordinary Clydesiders who left little in the way of sources which historians can access. These are the men and women, skilled and unskilled, Catholics and Protestants, Socialists and Conservatives, internationalists and...
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Article 20 mins
The Harrison Centre for Social Mobility
Education & Development

The Harrison Centre for Social Mobility

...works with hundreds of young people annually across Wearside and the surrounding areas, providing the tuition and training they need to help them grow in confidence and secure a job. The Harrison Centre also supports a growing number of charities and organisations that aim to tackle low social mobility by working with young people and connecting them up to employment....
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Article 5 mins
Effective communication in the workplace Badge icon
Money & Business

Effective communication in the workplace

...working to virtual reality. Each week you'll have an opportunity to reflect on your own communication skills, setting goals to improve them. Watch the following video in which Lynne Johnson from the Careers Service at The Open University, who you'll hear from at the start of each week, introduces the course. Transcript Enrolling on the course will give you the opportunity...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Delacroix
History & The Arts

Delacroix

...work and will see how his paintings relate to the cultural transition from Enlightenment to Romanticism. You will study Delacroix's early career, his classical background, the development of Romantic ideas and their incorporation into his work. You will have the opportunity to study some of his most important paintings and compare them to works favouring a Neoclassical...
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Level 1: Introductory 16 hrs
Dr Anthony Gunter on representing modern Britain, the silent majority and change
Education & Development

Dr Anthony Gunter on representing modern Britain, the silent majority and change

...video Anthony reflects on a Black History Month event, which was well attended, noting that the majority of colleagues were not present – the silent majority. Transcript Time for Change: In this video Anthony outlines how he felt when he came back to work at the OU, after working elsewhere for many years and makes suggestions for changes that could be made. Transcript...
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Video 10 mins