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Promoting the effective management of children’s pain
Health, Sports & Psychology

Promoting the effective management of children’s pain

...family. Part of effective pain management includes parents, who want to, becoming involved in their child’s pain management, which needs to be encouraged so that parents feel empowered to become involved in reducing the pain experienced by their child in hospital. The information presented will enable you to gain knowledge and insight into evidence-based practice, in...
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Level 2: Intermediate 4 hrs
Introducing the Classical world
History & The Arts

Introducing the Classical world

...history...How do we learn about the world of the ancient Romans and Greeks? This free course, Introducing the Classical world, will provide you with an insight into the Classical world by introducing you to the various sources of information used by scholars to draw together an image of this fascinating period of history....Introducing the Classical world: Introduction -...
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Level 2: Intermediate 20 hrs
Challenging Workplace Gender Roles: One Woman’s Story
Society, Politics & Law

Challenging Workplace Gender Roles: One Woman’s Story

...History and Social Sciences qualifications. Background Women have frequently faced struggles to enter the workplace in roles considered traditionally male. Women’s workplace roles were often those associated with caregiving, such as nursing or teaching. This is because certain jobs were labelled and allocated according to gender and viewed by society as either masculine...
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Article 10 mins
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Education & Development

Multidisciplinary study: the value and benefits

...history is. If you've got the enthusiasm, do it. End of the day, if you've got it, you can do it. Studying a multidisciplinary qualification at The Ope University. The Open University would really appreciate a few minutes of your time to tell us about yourself and your expectations for the course before you begin, in our optional start-of-course survey. Participation will...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Approaching literature: reading Great Expectations
History & The Arts

Approaching literature: reading Great Expectations

...history of Britain, including its colonial history. It has been held that the mainstream realist novel did much to ‘normalise’ imperialist attitudes. I do not think things are quite so straightforward: apart from anything else, this presumes a very limited idea of the genre. Nevertheless, it takes us beyond the familiar, towards a reading that raises yet more...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
Understanding Alice
History & The Arts

Understanding Alice

...family name for Edith, while Lacie is an anagram of Alice. The Treacle Well refers to holy well associated with St. Frideswide, the patron saint of Oxford (‘treacle’ is an ancient term for a healing compound). Alice’s father, the Dean of Christ Church College where Charles Dodgson lived and taught mathematics, had recently commissioned a window in the saint’s...
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Article 10 mins
Who are Europeans?
Society, Politics & Law

Who are Europeans?

...history is made in an ever-expanding world, but that this world will only be truly human when men can live freely in free cities, on this day, we take the solemn oath: to maintain permanent ties between our municipalities, to encour age exchanges in all domains between their inhabitants so as to develop through a better mutual understanding, the notion of European...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Is English squeezing out local languages in Uganda?
Languages

Is English squeezing out local languages in Uganda?

...history in Uganda. By the time European Protestant explorers arrived in Buganda in 1877, followed by Catholics in 1879, Swahili was used as a language for inter-ethnic communication, in the courts and as a language for trade in East Africa. In 1928 it was declared the official language in education and administration. This was met with stiff opposition from Buganda and...
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Article 5 mins