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Getting started with Spanish 2
Languages

Getting started with Spanish 2

...research. What makes the Open Centre different? The OU is the leader in online learning and teaching with a heritage of more than 50 years helping student achieve their learning ambitions. The short courses are underpinned by academic rigour and designed by native speakers experienced in producing engaging materials for online learning of languages and cultures. The...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
How can languages further your career?
Languages

How can languages further your career?

...School (comprising a survey of 415 UK Small Medium Enterprises) statistically shows that language capabilities add 30% in value to exporting success. Inspired? Try a FREE language course The Open Centre for Languages and Cultures For many more short courses that will help you get started with learning languages, check out the Open Centre for Languages and Cultures....
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Six ways Sajid Javid can make British migration policy more humane
Society, Politics & Law

Six ways Sajid Javid can make British migration policy more humane

...centre. Since then, increasing categories of people have been subject to administrative detention, including irregular migrants, asylum seekers (the largest group currently in detention), stateless persons, children and people who arrived in the UK as children and it even played a role in the Windrush scandal. It’s now time for arbitrary immigration detention to stop,...
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Different cultures, different childhoods
History & The Arts

Different cultures, different childhoods

...Children in tent - Corbis] When I look back on my own childhood in the 1970s and 80s and compare it with children today, it reminds me of that famous sentence ‘The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there’ (from L. P. Hartley’s novel The Go-Between). Even in a relatively short period of time, I can see the enormous transformations that have taken...
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Article 10 mins
What foster carers want you to know
Health, Sports & Psychology

What foster carers want you to know

...children. They are people from all walks of life who open their homes and hearts to children who cannot live with their own families, whether that be for a few days, weeks, months or even years. There can be many reasons why such situations arise, for example family illness, crisis, or situations where home isn’t safe. Fostering is unique in that it combines the...
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A history of child protection
Education & Development

A history of child protection

...children have a right to be protected from. In 1868, in rural Cheshire, John Bradley and his wife died within a few weeks of each other. They left a family of four young children under the age of eight. Several weeks later an aunt investigated, and found the children, still at home, in a filthy condition and half starved. They had survived only by eating raw vegetables...
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Seven myths of being a female engineer
Science, Maths & Technology

Seven myths of being a female engineer

...Centre for Engineering Design at Cambridge University. For her, one of the biggest myths of the profession is “that you have to be big and strong to work in these sectors.” She goes on: “I’m not big. I’m not strong. But I can certainly do just as much as my other, male colleagues.” Rather than strength, she believes “imagination is the biggest key” for...
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Introducing healthcare improvement
Health, Sports & Psychology

Introducing healthcare improvement

...researchers, payers, planners and educators – to make the changes that will lead to better patient outcomes (health), better system performance (care) and better professional development (learning…) (Batalden & Davidoff, 2007, p.2) Activity 1 This definition of quality improvement identifies three areas that may result in positive change after an improvement...
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Level 3: Advanced 3 hrs