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The fight for equal pay: Glasgow City Council, 2018
Society, Politics & Law

The fight for equal pay: Glasgow City Council, 2018

...Open University's History and Social Sciences qualifications. Context The 1970 Equal Pay Act prohibited less favourable treatment between men and women in terms of pay and conditions of employment. In 2020 the pay gap in the UK was 15.5%, meaning on average women were paid 84.5p for every £1 men earned. (ONS, 2020). In 2006 Glasgow City Council (GCC) introduced a...
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Exploring innovative assessment methods
Education & Development

Exploring innovative assessment methods

...Open the video in a new tab or window by holding down Ctrl (or Cmd on a Mac) when you click on the link. The video is designed to help you think about the knowledge, skills and competencies your learners may need if they progress onto further or higher education or employment. After watching the video answer the following three questions (you will revisit your answers to...
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Level 3: Advanced 12 hrs
Has Jeremy Corbyn changed Prime Ministers Questions for the better?
Society, Politics & Law

Has Jeremy Corbyn changed Prime Ministers Questions for the better?

...open an opportunity for the PM to launch an attack. Corbyn’s six questions all fell into the first category. And as he announced at the start of the session, they had all been crowd-sourced from citizens – Maria, Stephen, Paul, Claire, Gail and Angela, to be precise. This strategy had been mooted within hours of Corbyn’s election, his team briefing that his approach...
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Ordinary dying and the Queen: Reflections on a case study
Health, Sports & Psychology

Ordinary dying and the Queen: Reflections on a case study

...Open University’s Health and Social Care courses. This article is reproduced with kind permission of Marie Curie. Shortly after Queen Elizabeth II died in early September, renowned palliative care consultant, Dr Kathryn Mannix outlined on Twitter how the Queen’s death might be an example of ‘ordinary dying’. Others both on social media and in the BMJ opinions...
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Doctor Who: Is time travel possible?
Science, Maths & Technology

Doctor Who: Is time travel possible?

...Open University's Science courses and qualifications. [Time travel, laser lights] In Doctor Who, our hero regularly travels forwards and backwards in time, visiting any epoch, anywhere in the Universe, thanks to his time machine the TARDIS (Time And Relative Dimensions In Space). But is time travel really possible? The simple answer to this question is: Yes! In fact as...
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A scenario on e-professionalism for nurses
Health, Sports & Psychology

A scenario on e-professionalism for nurses

...Open University's Nursing and Healthcare courses and qualifications. E-professionalism is "the attitudes and behaviours that reflect traditional professionalism paradigms but are manifested through digital media" (Kacznarcyzk et al., 2013). Professional bodies such as the Nursing and Midwifery Council (2016, United Kingdom) have specific guidance on the use of social...
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Welcome to Applying Psychology to Work Hub
Health, Sports & Psychology

Welcome to Applying Psychology to Work Hub

...Open University School of Psychology and Counselling. Read on and take part in activities to find out how it could be of benefit to you! ...We have many common experiences at work (starting a job, building relationships, teamworking, change, trusting others, finishing a job) and there are a lot of things that we think we already know in terms of how to work through these...
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Brain-inspired computing: a new paradigm for sustainable AI
Science, Maths & Technology

Brain-inspired computing: a new paradigm for sustainable AI

...the secret to greener AI be hiding inside our own head? Research into brain-inspired hardware suggests it might...Find out more about The Open University's Computing and IT courses and qualifications. Artificial intelligence (AI) is everywhere. It powers voice assistants like Siri and Alexa, and chatbots like ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude. Every time you ask a question or...
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