2,164 search results

World Environment Day 2016: Local engagement, global celebration
Nature & Environment

World Environment Day 2016: Local engagement, global celebration

...manages the green spaces in the town (comprising whopping 25% of the town) with many events from music, open-air cinema to regular activities including walking, running and sailing. If you are into cycling, Dr Mike Dodd’s Red Way Nature Trail, provides suggestions for an 18 km, sight-seeing experience around Milton Keynes’s cycling red ways. If you are short on time...
Ageing, health inequalities and person-centred care
Health, Sports & Psychology

Ageing, health inequalities and person-centred care

...management and delay the ageing processes for as long as possible. In this article we will consider person-centred care in older people through the lens of health inequalities. We will look at the different ways in which older people might experience inequalities, and how they can be supported to engage with the 5 Pillars of Ageing. Health professionals are encouraged to...
Can I become fitter by doing short bursts of exercise?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Can I become fitter by doing short bursts of exercise?

...manage several risk factors known to be important for disease prevention. The most consistent finding is that breaking up prolonged sitting leads to a reduction in blood glucose and insulin concentrations in response to a meal. One study also reported improvements in blood pressure regulation. Importantly, short periods of standing do not appear to be sufficient –...
Volunteering in the education sector
Education & Development

Volunteering in the education sector

...Manager at Dyfed-Powys Police before joining The Open University in Wales, during which time she also qualified in the subject. Kerrie was then keen to use her skills to support governance at her children’s school. Continue reading Kerrie’s overriding interest in becoming a governor, though, wasn’t a professional one; it was about supporting the environment where...
What are South Asian young adult carers’ aspirations for the future?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What are South Asian young adult carers’ aspirations for the future?

...managing the family’s finances. Thinking ahead: planning for the future Each young person, whatever their background, has their own vision for what their future may bring. They might identify a role model in their family, someone whose accomplishments they have read about, or want to emulate a well-known figure they have heard about on social media. Alternatively, they...
Network security
Digital & Computing

Network security

...management and key management services...Network security: 9.1 Introduction - In this section I shall discuss two major approaches used to restrict access to networks – passwords and firewalls...Network security: 9.2 Passwords - I have introduced encryption keys in previous sections. A password can also be thought of as a type of key in as much as it enables the...
Level 3: Advanced 25 hrs
David Lucey
Education & Development

David Lucey

...introduction to crime and criminology... all interesting topics that I wanted to learn more about.’ And that was one of the reasons he turned to OpenLearn in the first place because, as he explains ‘...it offers a wide range of courses that were simply unavailable at my local education centre. I wanted to learn about new things to get a clearer picture of what fields...
Article 5 mins
Belfast - healthy city
Society, Politics & Law

Belfast - healthy city

...introduction to this album. Healthy Cities: the idea Ilona Kickbusch on how the Healthy Cities Movement began in the mid nineteen eighties as a European initiative. Healthy Cities: the reality Ilona Kickbusch on how the initiative spread out from Europe to the rest of the world, and is particularly important in South America. Belfast as a healthy city Joan Devlin of...