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How can education contribute to sustainability?
Education & Development

How can education contribute to sustainability?

...children and young people reside. Not only did they post on the School’s Research Conversations: by and for Education researchers blog about how their views were set in much wider research internationally, but they also posted examples of their own practice change in personal blogs, something encouraged on the Masters in Education as a space for airing development and...
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The abolition of capital punishment
Society, Politics & Law

The abolition of capital punishment

...Centre for Law at The Open University, Professor Barbara Hudson, Director of the Centre for Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Central Lancashire, and Dr. Nigel Warburton, Senior Lecturer in the Department of Philosophy at The Open University, explore some of the fundamental issues underpinning our attitudes to this most severe of punishments. The...
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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
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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Introduction to sport, fitness and management
Health, Sports & Psychology

Introduction to sport, fitness and management

...centres and how they are run as well as providing an insight into the training of future elite athletes in Britain. Material is taken from The Open University course E112 Introduction to sport, fitness and management... Introduction to sport, fitness and management A short introduction to this album. Sport: Health and Safety A look at health and safety in the Gym and the...
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Exploring anxiety
Science, Maths & Technology

Exploring anxiety

...Centre: mental health, research and the media - The UK's Science Media Centre (SMC), an independent press office that emerged from the House of Lords’ Science and Technology Select Committee in 2002 with the aim of increasing public awareness and trust in science, serves a key role working with journalists and experts within the scientific community. The SMC strives 'to...
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Level 3: Advanced 9 hrs
Gaelic in modern Scotland
Languages

Gaelic in modern Scotland

...children’. This research is now regarded as unreliable for a number of reasons, but chiefly because it failed to take account of the socio-economic backgrounds of the young people tested. A major research project carried out in Montreal in 1962 was the first to question the received wisdom on this matter. The linguists Elizabeth Peal and Wallace Lambert compared the...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Nicole McLean (Mamet) – hospitality, gate line and train driver
Society, Politics & Law

Nicole McLean (Mamet) – hospitality, gate line and train driver

...research about the job and the company (who at the time was First Group) and I did a lot of work on my application. I was fortunate enough to be able to approach two drivers for advice and information. The first was the driver that advised I apply for the job and the second was a driver who would later become my instructor. Only a handful of close colleagues were aware...
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