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South Asian young adult carers: Balancing their caring roles and planning for the future
Health, Sports & Psychology

South Asian young adult carers: Balancing their caring roles and planning for the future

...based on the experiences of the young people who took part in our study, using their own words. You can find out more about the experiences of South Asian young adult carers by reading the articles provided. Urdu/Punjabi versions are also provided (where possible). The resources on this site provide information and advice for young adult carers, their families and health...
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Article 5 mins
Extending and developing your thinking skills
Education & Development

Extending and developing your thinking skills

...based economy. The creation and use of knowledge depends on our ability to think. Good thinking could be viewed as empowering for individuals and society. Education can be seen as a process of joining a community in a subject. So you may become, for example, a social scientist or mathematician by learning the thinking styles, language and other characteristics of that...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Attachment in the early years
Education & Development

Attachment in the early years

...based on this theory is revealing the significance of the early years of life in the formation of attachments that go on to be central throughout life. This free course gives an introduction to this exciting area of contemporary study. This OpenLearn course is an adapted extract from the Open University course E219 Psychology of childhood and youth...Attachment in the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Practice supervision and assessment in nursing
Health, Sports & Psychology

Practice supervision and assessment in nursing

...based practice. This course has been designed to inform and develop knowledge of those who support the supervision and assessment of pre-registration student nurses. Please remember that the shape of your role will be configured upon local policy. This course addresses: The key requirements for those undertaking the Practice Assessor and Practice Supervisor roles from an...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
What can philosophy tell us about race?
History & The Arts

What can philosophy tell us about race?

...based on physical traits regarded as common among people of shared ancestry’ (Merriam-Webster.com, 2023). Under this definition, race refers to groups based on shared physical traits (such as skin colour, eye colour, hair texture and so on). These shared physical traits are believed to be an indicator of shared ancestry (or descent). You may think that this definition...
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Level 1: Introductory 9 hrs
The economics of flood insurance
Society, Politics & Law

The economics of flood insurance

...basing their supply decisions on the full costs of these homes. They are escaping the cost of future flooding or flood-risk protection, which must nevertheless be borne by somebody. In economic terminology, there is a negative externality of production. The demand-and-supply model can help to demonstrate how this distorts the supply of housing causing more flood-risk...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Forensic science and fingerprints
Health, Sports & Psychology

Forensic science and fingerprints

...Based upon the extract from Forensic Science you read earlier in the course, what are the features of fingerprints that the experts would have been looking for in a detailed comparison? Answer First of all the expert will classify the major pattern as a loop, whorl, or arch. They will then look for categories of loops, whorls or arches. For example, a loop can be radial...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Here's how we can save the car – and the planet at the same time
Science, Maths & Technology

Here's how we can save the car – and the planet at the same time

...based on the as-yet unpublished Greet2 study). This is perhaps because such technologies are more energy intensive to produce due to the materials that compose them. New ideas needed So what is the alternative to the current system? If car travel is going to remain common, perhaps we need to be smarter about how we build and use them. Our cars currently spend 92% of their...
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Article 10 mins