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Understanding your sector Badge icon
Money & Business

Understanding your sector

...health and public service workers; to smaller ones such as the National Union of Mineworkers and the National Association of Racing Staff. Trade unions tend to be in the news when their members vote for industrial action during a dispute with employers. Their lower profile work in conducting economic and industrial research is less well-understood. Unions also provide...
Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Assisted dying or non-assisted living?
Society, Politics & Law

Assisted dying or non-assisted living?

...health. For over a year he’d “had enough,” but we – my mother, siblings and I – cared for him and jollied him along as best we could. When his blood pressure and pulse suddenly plummeted, he was admitted to the local A&E where complete heart block was diagnosed. The solution, we were told, was a pacemaker. Knowing that any procedure, even a short hospital stay,...
Living with Disability
Health, Sports & Psychology

Living with Disability

...Health and Social Care explain why some of the case studies were selected for study and unpick some of the issues that emerge. This material forms part of The Open University course K101 An introduction to health and social care... Living with Disability A short introduction to this album. Living with MS: Veronica's story A day in the life of Veronica Sinclair and her...
Audio 2 hrs 14 mins
‘A little bit of kindness’: migrant nurses in the Scottish NHS
Society, Politics & Law

‘A little bit of kindness’: migrant nurses in the Scottish NHS

...Health Service (NHS) has been dependent on migrant labour. Following an NHS recruitment drive in Malaysian secondary schools, Sofi Taylor left Malaysia for Scotland in 1973 to train as a nurse. In Malaysia Sofi came from a wealthy family. Her only sister was training to be an accountant with a bright future, but as Sofi was less academic the opportunities available to her...
Perceptions of corruption
Science, Maths & Technology

Perceptions of corruption

...index? video. Copyright 20 September 2012 Transparency International: the global coalition against corruption. Used with permission. For more information, visit Transparency International. Data from the UN Development Programme Data Public Explorer tool What do you think about the subjects discussed in this film? Use our Comments facility below to share your views...
Letter to a Climate Sceptic
Nature & Environment

Letter to a Climate Sceptic

...public mistrust in climate science. In this audio, in the form of an open letter, The Open University’s Dr Joe Smith defends the science behind climate change and argues that “climate change is one of the challenges of the age. One that we will all be judged for”... Letter to a Climate Sceptic Why are people so sceptical about the truth of climate change science? Dr...
The Scottish Parliament and law making Badge icon
Society, Politics & Law

The Scottish Parliament and law making

...public are encouraged to become involved with the work of the Scottish Parliament...This free course, The Scottish Parliament and law making, explores the law making powers of the Scottish Parliament and examines its place in the UK’s constitution. It considers how, and why, laws are made by both the Scottish and UK Parliaments before exploring devolved matters,...
Modernist architecture: Roots (1920-1929)
History & The Arts

Modernist architecture: Roots (1920-1929)

...public imagination, and emphasised the positive force that technology could play in people's lives. In 1921, Le Corbusier described a house as "a machine for living in". Le Corbusier and others believed that houses should have the purity of form of a well-designed machine. The formal qualities of mass-produced cars and other machines were therefore of great interest to...