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Customer Service: Expert's Corner with Professor Sally Dibb
Money & Business

Customer Service: Expert's Corner with Professor Sally Dibb

...care? What is the impact of poor customer service on a business and how much does it cost them to invest in improving their infrastructure? To delve deeper into this topic, Professor Sally Dibb, internationally renowned academic in Marketing at the Open University Business School, is here to answer a few more questions following this week’s episode of The Bottom Line....
Women and the fight to reclaim higher education
Society, Politics & Law

Women and the fight to reclaim higher education

...care for students was described as highly gendered, putting particular pressures on junior female staff in particular. A culture of pressure and exploitation within academia was also emphasised: ‘Academia can take, and take, and take. If you’re someone who wants to support students and colleagues, this can easily become exploitative’. This was echoed by another UCU...
What do historians do?
History & The Arts

What do historians do?

...cared for both mother and baby. According to the historian Marylynn Salmon breastfeeding problems resulted in ‘severe stress’ in a period and culture where women were expected to be fecund, so early modern ‘women’s collections of medicinal recipes invariably included remedies for increasing inadequate milk supplies as well as recipes for supplementary feedings’...
Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
Conversations and interviews
Money & Business

Conversations and interviews

...careful with questions of the latter sort; are you being fair to your respondent in not giving them time to think? Does your respondent have time available for an extended conversation or would they appreciate a very brief conversation? Before now, I have got halfway through a series of questions with a colleague when I noticed them looking at their watch and displaying...
Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs
Collaborative problem solving for community safety
Money & Business

Collaborative problem solving for community safety

...adult manner than would otherwise be the case – even if deadlock seems to apparent...Week 4: Problem solving and decision making: Week 4 quiz - This quiz gives you the opportunity to check your understanding of the subjects you have covered in Weeks 3 and 4. It consists of eight questions and will help you to assess your own progress. Week 4 quiz Open the quiz in a new...
Intimate not Intimidated: It's Time to Talk about Sex and Disability
Health, Sports & Psychology

Intimate not Intimidated: It's Time to Talk about Sex and Disability

...care home and my girlfriend at the time wanted to stay over. And it turned into a big argument. Because the staff. They don’t want to leave me and her to have our own personal time. Which I think is wrong. I am human, I do have rights. This was supposed to be my home. But it never felt like home. She had to sign an agreement form that she wanted to be online with me....
Enhancing pupil learning on museum visits
Education & Development

Enhancing pupil learning on museum visits

...careful reflection upon an object...Enhancing pupil learning on museum visits: 2 What's out there for our school? - There are close to three thousand museums, galleries and heritage sites in the UK and there are approximately 100 million visits made to them every year. Internationally important collections of ancient relics and artistic masterpieces jostle for our...
Social work law and UK regulation
Society, Politics & Law

Social work law and UK regulation

...care and social work regulation is a devolved matter. Currently, the regulators are: England – Social Work England Northern Ireland – Northern Ireland Social Care Council Scotland – Scottish Social Services Council Wales – Social Care Wales. [The flags of England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.] Figure 9 Social work regulators Each of the regulators has a...
Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs