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George at Asda – What makes clothing ownership and use sustainable?
Money & Business

George at Asda – What makes clothing ownership and use sustainable?

...technology on school knitwear to keep it looking newer for longer, and expandable waists on school trousers. Also, improving sewing skills to repair slightly damaged clothing can give your garments a new lease of life. Sewing skills also come in handy to customise or remake clothing into something new by adding your own creative personality. You can up-cycle clothing that...
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Energy policy and climate change
Science, Maths & Technology

Energy policy and climate change

...technology offers the possibility of reducing the damage caused by burning fossil fuels Low carbon London The Mayor of London's very ambitious plans to turn London into a model low carbon city, approaching everything from building design to transport from a low carbon perspective European energy update Godfrey Boyle updates the preceding films and reveals how energy...
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Introducing global development
Society, Politics & Law

Introducing global development

...technological innovation and environmental sustainability. You’ll be introduced to a conceptual framework called PASH (power, agency, scale and history) that will help you to make sense of these issues and consider how we might better respond to them...This course will introduce you to ideas of global development and the interconnectedness of the world when it comes to...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
Black and Minority Ethnic students: Mental wellbeing and study support
Health, Sports & Psychology

Black and Minority Ethnic students: Mental wellbeing and study support

...Education at the OU and Rehana Awan and Darren Gray were part of a small working group, set up under the OU’s Access and Participation Plan, to explore the reasons why Black students are less likely than White students to declare a mental health condition. [Illustration of OU student by a sign of services available] If you’re already registered on an OU module you can...
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Jury Hub Conversation: Hannah Fawcett, Matt Brooks, Hayley Ness
Society, Politics & Law

Jury Hub Conversation: Hannah Fawcett, Matt Brooks, Hayley Ness

...as posttraumatic growth, which is his core research area. He is a member of the MMU Health Psychology and Communities Research Centre, the Stress, Health and Performance Cluster in the Faculty of Health and Education, and the Life Paths Research Centre in the United States. He supervises Ph.D. students in areas relating to posttraumatic growth, stress, and victimology....
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Video 55 mins
Extra help for disabled students: Disabled Students' Allowance
Education & Development

Extra help for disabled students: Disabled Students' Allowance

...education within the UK...Disabled Students' Allowance (DSA) covers the extra study-related costs or expenses that you may have as a disabled person. You don’t need to pay it back and it doesn’t affect any benefits you receive. You can apply for DSA if you live in the UK and have a disability that affects your ability to study, such as a: specific learning difficulty,...
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Exploring learning disabilities: supporting belonging Badge icon
Health, Sports & Psychology

Exploring learning disabilities: supporting belonging

...Educational Needs 70,065 (Public Health England, 2016) These figures, however, are unsatisfactory for a number of reasons, not all of them immediately evident. For example, the figures are not collected regularly and there is no universal system for labelling adults. Also, the figures are not broken down into the four sub-categories you looked at in Section 2.1, meaning...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Teaching secondary modern foreign languages
Education & Development

Teaching secondary modern foreign languages

...education and how this affects modern foreign languages in the secondary school curriculum...This free course, Teaching secondary modern foreign languages, will identify and explore some of the key issues around teaching modern foreign languages in secondary schools. Through coming to understand these issues and debates, you will reflect on and develop your practice as a...
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Level 3: Advanced 11 hrs