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How can you turn desert into farmland?
Nature & Environment

How can you turn desert into farmland?

...health and would lead to many benefits for farmers throughout the world. With these local and global considerations, soil experts are making connections between building resilience in healthy soils and agricultural considerations such as soil fertility, while adding new focuses, such as climate change, to their management investigations. Building resilience in healthy and...
Discovering development management
Money & Business

Discovering development management

...wellbeing of those touched by it. So the questions are worth asking. And the quest to discover ‘good’ development management is one that is worth undertaking. This OpenLearn course is an adapted extract from the Open University course T878 Capacities for managing development...Discovering development management: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you...
Want to achieve your goal? Try our Personal Best tool
Health, Sports & Psychology

Want to achieve your goal? Try our Personal Best tool

...health, you should talk to an expert before embarking on any programme of activity. Launch the App in Facebook You will need to sign in through your Facebook account to access the App. Once you are in, the App will be automatically saved in 'Your Apps' area. When you come back each week to record your progress, the App will remember where you were last time and calculate...
Should I use a skills-based CV to smooth the gaps in my employment history?
Money & Business

Should I use a skills-based CV to smooth the gaps in my employment history?

...ask their permission first) You do not need to include: nationality (unless you will need a UK work permit) marital status details and ages of children your health status school and university address examining boards minor qualifications unrelated to the post applied for You can find further support with developing an effective CV as part of the Learning To Learn course...
Tricky Topics in Nursing
Health, Sports & Psychology

Tricky Topics in Nursing

...health and social care environment where you work or study. 3. Observe: Observe a registered healthcare professional performing the procedure on a real patient. Compare your findings with theirs if appropriate. 4. Read: Proctor, J. and Rickards, E. (2020) How to perform chest auscultation and interpret the findings. Nursing Times; Vol:116(1), pp.23-26. Intramuscular...
Key Ideas in Therapy
Health, Sports & Psychology

Key Ideas in Therapy

...health marketplace, so how do you know which one is right for you? It turns out that the type of therapy might be less important that the type of therapist you get. This film looks at why the relationship between therapist and client is so important. This animation was developed by Dr Naomi Moller, Lecturer in Psychology at the Open University, and Damn Fine Media. Beyond...
Water in Ethiopia
Nature & Environment

Water in Ethiopia

...health, improved productivity and has brought the community together. Three Ways of Getting Water: City supply In Gondar, a quarter of a million residents rely on the city reservoir and water treatment works. In addition to increasing pressures from a growing population, the reservoir is already filling up with silt washed down from the surrounding area; made worse by...
Is the UK media failing Welsh voters?
Society, Politics & Law

Is the UK media failing Welsh voters?

...health and education. [Percentage of readers of various Welsh newspapers] Reader deficit One of the most striking findings of the survey is the low number of people reading a newspaper produced in Wales – 5% or fewer. The Western Mail carries the most comprehensive coverage of the assembly, but the survey revealed that fewer than 4% regularly read it; when asked to name...