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What's your personality profile?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What's your personality profile?

...Our Time - on the COOT survey page. Find out more Study children... The Open University offers a number of courses that allow you to study childhood: Understanding Children; Childhood and Child Development among them. ... study people Starting With Psychology, Understanding Health and Discovering Psychology are just a few of the courses for study with The Open University....
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A freelance career in the creative arts Badge icon
History & The Arts

A freelance career in the creative arts

...skills. You can read more on how to study the course and about badges in the next sections. After completing this course, you should be able to: describe the highs and lows of self-employment, from winning that first contract to filing a tax return reflect on the skills and strengths a freelancer needs, and identify where to find additional support when required...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Remaking the relations of work and welfare
Society, Politics & Law

Remaking the relations of work and welfare

...studies to connect the theory with the reality of people's lives...How do 'welfare to work' programmes such as the New Deal take into account and shape people's personal lives? This free course, Remaking the relations of work and welfare, looks at how participation in, and drop-out from, 'workfare' programmes are interpreted within different theoretical perspectives, and...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Three principles of a coaching approach
Money & Business

Three principles of a coaching approach

...skills required of an effective coach. Whether or not you recognise the use of a 'coaching approach' in your workplace, you will be able to use the learning in the course to enhance your day-to-day interactions in your workplace...This course provides a good sense for three of the core skills required of an effective coach. Whether or not you recognise the use of a...
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Level 1: Introductory 2 hrs
Science and society: A career and professional development course
Education & Development

Science and society: A career and professional development course

...study in Science...Science and society: A career and professional development course: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: demonstrate an awareness of the roles and responsibilities of the modern scientist demonstrate an insight as a scientist into the social and ethical aspects of scientific research understand the rationale and role of...
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Level 1: Introductory 30 hrs
Communication in health and social care
Health, Sports & Psychology

Communication in health and social care

...elderly residents. The scenes analyse residential care from multiple viewpoints. Cope in such an intense emotional environment? The casualty ward of any hospital is a place of extreme emotion for patients and staff alike. Three A Skills in action Service users and care workers highlight the ways in which specific communication skills can develop performance and recovery....
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Starting with Maths
Science, Maths & Technology

Starting with Maths

...studying makes them feel ‘on top of the world’. This material forms part of the course: Y162 Starting with maths... Starting with Maths A short introduction to this album. A brief history of numbers Starting in Africa 20,000 years ago, trace the history of numbers through time, including Egyptian use of fractions and the problems of Roman numerals. Today numbers help...
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A hard day at the Met Office: The BBC look for a change in the weather
History & The Arts

A hard day at the Met Office: The BBC look for a change in the weather

...Skills. The Met gets its income through providing a range of specialised forecasts, for example on behalf of the aviation and insurance industries, but the BBC contract remains a key part of its work. At a time when government is reducing spending, it is natural that the Met Office should seek to maximise income and the BBC should seek to cut costs, leading to the current...
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