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Mind the Medicine Gap
Health, Sports & Psychology

Mind the Medicine Gap

...of The Open University investigates the idea that the patent system is too blunt an instrument to serve the interests of both pharmaceutical companies and the poor like Lemlem. There are smart solutions though; ways for everybody to win. Big questions. Fascinating answers... Mind the Medicine Gap An insight to why people in poor countries have less access to medicines....
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Audio 19 mins
Dan Rees - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Dan Rees - Earth in Vision

...think, for an awful lot of people who were around in 1979 when that came out, because it changed the game so radically, it was so new for everybody. I was only eight at the time, but I was still blown away by what I was seeing on the screen, so that was a massive, very powerful memory for me in terms of a natural history series. Environmental issues: What series inspired...
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Video 30 mins
Collaborative leadership in voluntary organisations
Money & Business

Collaborative leadership in voluntary organisations

...thinking and practice. Both courses have been written from a UK perspective and primarily with UK case study content. If you are studying from outside the UK, then we encourage you to reflect on differences and similarities in your own context. Take time to look for local case studies that illustrate (or challenge) key learning points, and compare and contrast sector...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
US Election 2016: A last week reading list
Society, Politics & Law

US Election 2016: A last week reading list

...thinking about where we'll be with the US election next week. In the meantime, here's a small dip into the many thousands of pieces being published about the face-off: As if the shifting of the opinion polls wasn't complicated enough, Nate Silver at FiveThirtyEight explains why it's getting more likely that Hillary could win the most votes, and Donald still wind up as...
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Article 5 mins
Herbal medicine
Health, Sports & Psychology

Herbal medicine

...thinking was along the lines of "why give a patient a herb tea with an indeterminate amount of active ingredients, when it is possible to administer a small white pill with precisely measured amounts?" And so drugs such as digoxin, derived originally from foxgloves, and aspirin, based on chemicals found in meadowsweet and willow bark, were isolated and then synthesised...
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Article 10 mins
Interviews - Writing For Radio
History & The Arts

Interviews - Writing For Radio

...think one of the really exciting things about drama on Radio 4, because of its scale, is you think OK yes we can do the entire works of Zola and we’ll do it, we’ll strip it across a week. So we had 27 episodes of Emil Zola: Blood, Sex and Money. And I can’t think of many other places in the known universe where you could do something of that scale. Including...
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Audio 45 mins
Harry Marshall - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Harry Marshall - Earth in Vision

...think has always sort of stood me in good stead and perhaps even inspired my career choice. He said, ‘You do this by the combination of a pair of binoculars, tweezers and a jam jar. And what you do is you look at the elephant through the wrong end of a pair of binoculars, you pick them up with tweezers and you put them in a jam jar.’ And I’ve always thought that...
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Video 30 mins
Meddylfryd mentora (A mentoring mindset)
Education & Development

Meddylfryd mentora (A mentoring mindset)

...system addysg Cymru, a bydd fersiwn Gymraeg o’r cwrs yn cael ei chyhoeddi yn ddiweddarach yn 2022. Mae’r negeseuon ynghylch egwyddorion mentora a hyfforddi effeithiol a’r rôl bwysig mae mentoriaid yn ei chwarae fel addysgwyr athrawon yng nghyd-destun ysgolion yn parhau’r un fath ar draws systemau addysg. Bydd y cwrs yn gwella eich dealltwriaeth am rôl mentor o...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs