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How can nature help us meet the climate challenge in towns and cities?
Nature & Environment

How can nature help us meet the climate challenge in towns and cities?

...manage or restore natural environments to support people’s wellbeing and enhance the quality of the environment. If you think that sounds broad, you’d be right. Nature-based solutions come in many shapes and sizes and can prioritise different issues. Managing a community park to hold more rainwater, restoring a peatland landscape to soak up more carbon dioxide, or...
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Article 10 mins
How to say no at work without guilt or conflict
Education & Development

How to say no at work without guilt or conflict

...managing workload, or maintaining a healthy work-life balance, the way you communicate your refusal can make all the difference. Here’s how to do it with clarity and professionalism...How often do you say no to a request at work? How often do you wish you’d said no to a request at work? There are lots of good reasons to turn down a task – perhaps you don’t have...
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Article 5 mins
Job Change and the Grief Cycle: The effects of losing our job or changing work role
Health, Sports & Psychology

Job Change and the Grief Cycle: The effects of losing our job or changing work role

...managing grief and change. Progression to acceptance is different for everyone and there is no set time or consequence moving through these stages of grief. During the COVID-19 Pandemic, many have lost a sense of work identity, self-identity and things are certainly not the same. Aside from the human cost of loss of possibly family and friends, many have had changes and...
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Article 10 mins
Planetary Protection: Space Governance and the Search for Life
Science, Maths & Technology

Planetary Protection: Space Governance and the Search for Life

...NASA Interim Directive: Biological Planetary Protection for Human Missions to Mars’, NID 8715.129, 9 July, P.1(a)(c) [Online]. Available at: https://nodis3.gsfc.nasa.gov/OPD_docs/NID_8715_129_.pdf American Space Commerce Free Enterprise Act (HR 2809, 115th Congress, 25 April 2018), §80103 (c)(2)(C)(D) [the bill passed the House of Representatives but not the Senate]...
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Article 10 mins
Internet of everything
Digital & Computing

Internet of everything

...Introduction - Early in your reading you will discover that the terms ‘internet of everything’ and ‘internet of things’ are interchangeable. Many British readers will be used to the different words being used for the same thing. In our living rooms, we can equally sit on a sofa or a settee. There is no difference between the two, we are sitting on the same thing....
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Am I ready to be an apprentice distance learner?
Education & Development

Am I ready to be an apprentice distance learner?

...Introduction - [Described image] The apprenticeship programme is delivered in partnership with your employer and The Open University, which is designed to develop your professional skills, and improve your long-term career prospects, whether you are staring out in your first job, or progressing at work. Apprentices new to distance learning say they may not feel confident...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
Migrant businesswomen and the census
Society, Politics & Law

Migrant businesswomen and the census

...Census: migration, gender, and business, and shows how art-based approaches such as storytelling can be used to communicate quantitative Census data. Project team: Dr Carry van Lieshout (The Open University), Gunjan Sondhi (The Open University). Partners: ReWomen (Women of Management and Enterprise Network), CREME (Centre for Research in Ethnic Minority Entrepreneurship)...
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Article 5 mins
The exclusion debate: Discussion hub
Education & Development

The exclusion debate: Discussion hub

...manage to deliver that when pupils have been excluded?...In 2013, there were 3,900 permanent exclusions from secondary schools in England. Boys are three times more likely to be excluded than girls, and pupils with special educational needs (SEN) account for 7 in 10 permanent exclusions. ‘Persistent disruptive behaviour’ is the most common reason for permanent...
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