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My career goal: Social care
Health, Sports & Psychology

My career goal: Social care

...health and social care: Transcript A probation officer explains how they work with offenders and victims following a domestic abuse conviction: Transcript A carer for the elderly explores how this career acts as a positive calling for many young people: Transcript Students at Gloucestershire College give their thoughts on health and social care training: Transcript Key...
The Ageing Well Public Talks
Health, Sports & Psychology

The Ageing Well Public Talks

...Health and Social Care with the Open University, and I am the creator of the Ageing Well Public Talk Series. The series is the outcome of collaborative work between academia, research and members of the public who have all contributed to the content as well as to the success of the series. The Series establishes Participatory Public Engagement as the main vehicle for...
Brain Awareness Week
Science, Maths & Technology

Brain Awareness Week

...Health and Chemical Sciences have been up to in the labs. The first two articles re new and from academics at The Open University: Brain basics The brain, along with the spinal cord, makes up the central nervous system. The most remarkable feature of the brain is the cerebral cortex, which gives the human brain (and that of many other species) its characteristic bumpy...
Improving patient, family and colleague witnesses’ experiences of Fitness to Practise proceedings
Health, Sports & Psychology

Improving patient, family and colleague witnesses’ experiences of Fitness to Practise proceedings

...health and care professionals on their registers’. Witnesses to misconduct can be called to give evidence in a Fitness to Practise investigation and hearing. A proportion of these will include patients, service users and colleagues who may have been significantly harmed by the registrant’s behaviour. Such cases may include behaviours associated with sexual abuse,...
Legal conversations
Society, Politics & Law

Legal conversations

...health professionals make clinical decisions? How much involvement should the patient have? Is it against the law to do research on individuals without their consent? Throughout these audio discussions, Phil Bates and Marc Cornock of The Open University’s Law School, discuss these, and similar issues surrounding ethics in law... Clinical decision making: A legal...
Can rabies be eliminated from Asia by 2020?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Can rabies be eliminated from Asia by 2020?

...Mental Health and Neurosciences who has studied the disease for three decades. “It will never go away.” Four-year-old Bhuvan sits quietly in his mother’s lap at the clinic. Nearly all of the right side of his neck is an open wound, where a street dog grabbed hold of him and dragged him for four feet before his great-aunt Veena came out of the house screaming....
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....
Everyday maths: statistics in the news
Science, Maths & Technology

Everyday maths: statistics in the news

...we see or hear. By the end of this activity, you will learn: how to read and ask questions about health data and reports in the news how to look at graphs and charts, and make sure they don't mislead you general rules to follow when looking at statistics in the news. [Activity banner image. Everyday maths: statistics in the news.] Everyday maths: statistics in the news...