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Three solutions for the nursing staffing crisis in the NHS
Health, Sports & Psychology

Three solutions for the nursing staffing crisis in the NHS

...Open University, is a nurse with more than forty years NHS and educational experiences linked to the education of nurses, looks at the staffing challenges facing the NHS, and some of the solutions...It's no secret that our hospitals are short of staff and do not have enough equipment or sufficient room in the United Kingdom. No single ‘magic formula’ will address all...
Welcome to the Health and Social Care CPD hub
Health, Sports & Psychology

Welcome to the Health and Social Care CPD hub

...resources to support your professional development...Welcome to the Health and Social Care CPD hub. CPD – continuing professional development – is a term used to describe activity that contributes to professionals’ development of knowledge, skills and behaviours. It can include many different types of activity, including reading, engaging in structured learning,...
Introduction to the Amazon System
Nature & Environment

Introduction to the Amazon System

...resources in the Amazon,with trees at the centre of the web.] At the centre of the Amazon system are its billions of trees. These trees generate the climate which allows the recycling of water, brought in as moisture from the Atlantic Ocean and Caribbean Sea, to reach mountain tops many thousands of kilometres inland. They protect the fragile soils from the torrential...
What does the head of Ofsted do?
Society, Politics & Law

What does the head of Ofsted do?

...education reform against resistance from unions. The idea that a new head of Ofsted brought in from a totally different cultural context will somehow be able to wave a magic wand over English education is not only both misguided and myopic, but shows a fundamental ignorance of what Ofsted was set up to do. Being the head of Ofsted has never been an easy role. The chief...
Universities United
Nature & Environment

Universities United

...education institutions are working together to tackle climate change...Universities or the staff from those universities often work together on projects of mutual interest. Indeed, many grant funding schemes for research and development projects expect there to be a consortium of partner organisations, including universities on any bid proposal. I myself have been...
Golden Globe Ocean Race: Drifting continents and a stormy passage
Science, Maths & Technology

Golden Globe Ocean Race: Drifting continents and a stormy passage

...opening and closure of oceans, also known as gateways, and the associated movements of continents called . At times, continental drift has resulted in the continents fragmenting into many smaller land masses as now, whilst at other times collisions have assembled vast supercontinents with immense mountain chains along their joins. Such constant rearrangement has had a...
EdTech Evidence: What works and why
Education & Development

EdTech Evidence: What works and why

...educators and policy-makers...Frameworks are intended to offer guidance, but they can also become perplexing. When it comes to frameworks for evaluating the quality of educational technology (EdTech), the proliferation of evaluation frameworks has led to uncertainty among educators and decision-makers. Which evaluation framework holds validity and which one should be...
Finding your way after the death of a significant person
Health, Sports & Psychology

Finding your way after the death of a significant person

...Open University in 2019. I am now an OU Alumni but have been continuing engaging in research-based projects with the OU after writing a participatory research proposal on bereavement for my final assessment in 2023. I experienced a significant bereavement in my early school years, after my mum died of a rare form of cancer in 1999. Since then, I have gone through a series...