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Embarking on a career in cyber security
Digital & Computing

Embarking on a career in cyber security

...work in, with a variety of career paths depending on your interests and aptitude. Network Security Specialist The network is a key part of any online computer system and keeping it secure is an important cyber security role. Becoming a network security specialist is one of the technical pathways to working in cyber security. Some of the network security technologies that...
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Article 5 mins
Tips for using a large language model
Digital & Computing

Tips for using a large language model

...work, study and life? This article gives you eight top tips for using this sort of artificial intelligence...Here are some useful things to bear in mind when using a Large Language Model. 1: A LLM is not a search engine ChatGPT and other LLMs will almost always answer any query you give them, but you cannot guarantee its response is helpful or even accurate. Remember,...
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Welcome to the Health and Social Care CPD hub
Health, Sports & Psychology

Welcome to the Health and Social Care CPD hub

...working in, or interested in, health and social care. This includes social care and social work practitioners, nurses and midwives, and allied health professionals. You will also find the resources useful if you are studying a programme related to health and social care or just want to find out more about the topics. How to use the hub We have collated courses, articles...
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Article 5 mins
Mental Health: Lennox Castle
Health, Sports & Psychology

Mental Health: Lennox Castle

...working in the largest mental deficiency hospital in Britain? And what changes led to its relatively recent closure? In it's heyday in the 1970s, Lennox Castle Hospital in Scotland housed over 1600 patients in purpose built multi-occupancy villas, and most staff lived on site or in nearby Lennoxtown. Oral historian Howard Mitchell started his working life there, as a...
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Audio 2 hrs 7 mins
From space to laboratory in four days
Science, Maths & Technology

From space to laboratory in four days

...worked on a meteorite that was collected less than 100 miles from his laboratory at The Open University in Milton Keynes. The reason being is that meteorite falls in the UK are not very commonplace. Ross’s work had him well-placed, both geographically and academically to help classify the newly-recovered Winchcombe meteorite, since he was in the lab the same week it was...
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Article 10 mins
Review: The Digital Academic - Critical Perspectives on Digital Technologies in Higher Education
Education & Development

Review: The Digital Academic - Critical Perspectives on Digital Technologies in Higher Education

...work and the university. For universities, digital technologies bring major changes to the way that teaching, research and communication can occur. Blogs, tweets, automatically generated citation measures, learning analytics, Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), flipped classrooms, open access research – all of these impact on academic work and academic workers. In...
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Article 5 mins
Uncertainty within the Realm of Statistics
Science, Maths & Technology

Uncertainty within the Realm of Statistics

...work in the realm of absolute certainty. Certainty can persist for all time, and perhaps we could say, certainty can even persist outside of time. I can sketch a picture proof of Pythagoras’ Theorem and know that nothing can knock the proof down. [A diagram of the Pythagoras’ theorem ] Since it's so quick and beautiful, allow me to explain how these two pictures prove...
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Article 10 mins
Introduction to child psychology
Education & Development

Introduction to child psychology

...work through this material, you will also gain a deeper understanding concerning how psychologists work with young children across a range of applied settings through activities and audio-visual materials...Childhood is a time of rapid growth and development, and studying these changes is endlessly stimulating. In this free course, Introduction to child psychology, you...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs