2,636 search results

Extending your learning with postgraduate skills
Education & Development

Extending your learning with postgraduate skills

...manage your goals, reflect on your learning and skill development and prepare to share with others what you have achieved. If you are registered on our Masters programme, find out what three of our peer PDP coaches think employability means to them in their short videos. The MA Education/Childhood and Youth staff-student coaching team has been developing ways for students...
A guide to developing trust with home-educating parents
Education & Development

A guide to developing trust with home-educating parents

...managers must ensure that all are embodying an empathetic and unbiased approach when working with home-educating parents. One parent also described the professionals responsible for supporting home-educating parents in her local authority as anonymous and felt that sharing information about the team members, including contact details, would help to increase familiarity...
Enceladus: A habitable ice world?
Science, Maths & Technology

Enceladus: A habitable ice world?

...managed to develop on Earth. The variety of life found on Earth has always staggered me; acid-eating microbes, parasitic fungi which infects ants’ brains, and glow-in-the-dark deep sea worms seem alien even on our own planet. If terrestrial life is so variable and bizarre, what would life beyond the Earth look like? Since the discovery of large, geyser-like plumes at...
What does it mean to be a South Asian young adult carer?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What does it mean to be a South Asian young adult carer?

...Managing the caring role alongside studying The young adult carers we interviewed were also studying at college or university. Like other young people, they were keen to learn and want to succeed in their courses. However, they sometimes missed classes due to their caring responsibilities. At times, they found it difficult to do their coursework and prepare for exams....
What does an engineer look like?
Science, Maths & Technology

What does an engineer look like?

...Projects. Dr. Mae C. Jemison, the first African-American woman in space, was born on October 17, 1956 in Decatur, Alabama but considers Chicago, Illinois her hometown. She received a Bachelor degree in Chemical Engineering (and completed the requirements for a Bachelor degree in African and Afro-American studies) at Stanford University in 1977, and a Doctorate degree in...
Protest Banners: Women's Suffrage
Society, Politics & Law

Protest Banners: Women's Suffrage

...project. The inspiration and influence of the early suffrage banners are captured in 100 modern re-workings and responses. You can watch a film about the project, ‘Satin, Silk and Suffrage’. Let's close with a reminder of what Lowndes called ‘the new thing’, meaning that colour had a ‘fresh significance’ in 1909. The new thing was ‘political societies...
The economics of flood insurance
Society, Politics & Law

The economics of flood insurance

...Introduction - This short course is a taster of the Open University Level 2 module, Economics in Practice. It will introduce you to some of the practical ways that the theories, tools and techniques of economics are used and impact on our everyday lives. You will look at the issue of flooding, a problem with a long history but becoming increasingly important globally...
Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
How do we explain racial disproportionality in the criminal justice systems in the US and England and Wales?
Education & Development

How do we explain racial disproportionality in the criminal justice systems in the US and England and Wales?

...project that explored race and policing in the US and the UK. The race and policing project focus was, in part, to explore, analyse, and explain the ways race and racism intersect in public institutions and society more broadly. It has also been to explore their connections to racial inequality and the pursuit of social justice. In what ways are race and racism (in a...