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Home education: levelling the playing field or increasing inequalities?
Education & Development

Home education: levelling the playing field or increasing inequalities?

...de-schooling, so not sitting doing work every day at certain times. Being allowed to not do anything academic if that was needed at that point in time. Most educational professionals from the school system just don't get it. - _Participant IDAA003 EHE students interviewed discussed two motives for doing the exams; one, on a needs basis, like maths or English for...
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Article 5 mins
Food, shelter and re-designing home as a living system
Science, Maths & Technology

Food, shelter and re-designing home as a living system

...de Sus, M. (June, 2022) ‘The Shift Directives: From Financialized to Human-rights Based Housing’, Make the Shift Report. Available at: https://make-the-shift.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Directives-Updated-Dec-9.pdf (Accessed: 24 December 2023). Joseph Rowntree Foundation. (2024) ‘Designing out hardship and destitution’. Available at:
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Article 5 mins
The case of Simone Biles and perceptions of athlete mental health
Health, Sports & Psychology

The case of Simone Biles and perceptions of athlete mental health

...de Janeiro five years prior. Despite a few mishaps during qualification, Biles advanced to several finals. During the team final on 27 July 2021, Biles hesitated on her vault mid-air and subsequently left the competition floor before returning shortly after. She later withdrew from the remainder of the team final due to mental health issues, saying she didn’t want to...
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Article 10 mins
Introduction to business agility
Money & Business

Introduction to business agility

...de-risking, to avoiding a ‘sunk cost fallacy,’ to locking in progress and value early and often. There are three key measures: Lead Time is the time from starting work on an item of value to getting it into the hands of a customer. Throughput is the count of items of value delivered into the hands of a customer in a time period. As lead time comes down, throughput...
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Level 1: Introductory 2 hrs
Speeches and speech-making
History & The Arts

Speeches and speech-making

...concepts like ‘voice’ and ‘text’ is through engaging in activities where you can see the terms being used, and this is what we are about to do. This OpenLearn course provides a sample of Level 1 study in Arts and Humanities...Speeches and speech-making: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: demonstrate an understanding of some...
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Level 1: Introductory 1 hr
Child mental health: is it in crisis?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Child mental health: is it in crisis?

...concepts of autonomy and paternalism to the example of school refusal describe how professionals and others assess children and young people with commonly occurring mental health problems...Child mental health: is it in crisis?: 1 Is there a crisis? - [Newspaper headlines stating ‘The teenage mental health crisis is now a societal disaster’, ‘Youth mental health is...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
Approaching literature: reading Great Expectations
History & The Arts

Approaching literature: reading Great Expectations

...conception of the convict suggests gothic melodrama, but it is melodrama incorporated within a subtle artistic medium to produce complex effects within the reader. Why does the term ‘gothic’ seem appropriate? Well, surely, the figure that ‘started up’ into Pip's view with such suddenness ‘from among the graves’, with his frightful glaring and growling, reminds...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
The economics of flood insurance
Society, Politics & Law

The economics of flood insurance

...concepts and terminology break down the issue of flood risk into some essential elements and apply appropriate economic theory and techniques to its analysis...The economics of flood insurance: 1 Why flooding happens - The idea of flooding is usually thought of as problematic, yet the natural processes involved and the possibilities for managing water are diverse....
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs