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Skills to succeed in the workplace
Education & Development

Skills to succeed in the workplace

...communities. The Open University in Scotland is working in partnership with the following organisations to support the work they're doing to improve employment outcomes for young people in their local communities: Rangers Charity Foundation Celtic FC Foundation Dundee FC Community Trust Free courses for young people We're providing a selection of free training courses to...
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Parent and guardians: Your questions answered
Education & Development

Parent and guardians: Your questions answered

...community, from joining social media support groups, accessing additional support and selecting the right student halls. Tips for belonging and community One of the biggest concerns for parents and guardians is whether their young person will feel a sense of belonging when they move away to university. In this video Alexandra offers practical ways to get involved so they...
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The arts in Participatory Action Research
Health, Sports & Psychology

The arts in Participatory Action Research

...community mental health resilience study, enabled a group of women in Guyana to address the violent and abusive domestic environments facing them. They had left their homes and communities to live in a sheltered domestic violence refuge with their children. Drawing pictures, reciting poems, and writing stories about those traumatic experiences helped them to develop...
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About The Open Centre for Languages and Cultures
Languages

About The Open Centre for Languages and Cultures

...communication-related subjects...Find out more about The Open University's Language courses and qualifications Transcript "At the heart of our mission for the Open Centre for Languages and Cultures sits the ambition to open up access to high quality opportunities to learn languages and engage with cultures for learners from all over the globe and from all walks of life....
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How do you read a person their rights when English isn't their first language?
Languages

How do you read a person their rights when English isn't their first language?

...communication barriers be avoided when cultures meet? Widespread concerns about communication of rights – including the right to silence – to non-native speakers of English in police interviews have led to the development and release of guidelines by the international Communication of Rights Group (CoRG). The group, co-convened by Diana Eades andAneta Pavlenko,...
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How can we address racial inequality and racial disproportionality?
Education & Development

How can we address racial inequality and racial disproportionality?

...community, and at governmental levels. ...More than twenty years after the Macpherson Report (1999), the debate about the existence and extent of institutional racism (and how this concept is defined) within the police forces, and how to address racism in public institutions, remains highly charged and disputed. The killing of George Floyd in 2020 by police officers...
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Seeing the bigger picture: exploring the stories of children from migrant backgrounds
Education & Development

Seeing the bigger picture: exploring the stories of children from migrant backgrounds

...communicate and tell visual stories, my study, and others before, exemplifies their ability to do so. Building on the idea that children have funds of knowledge that they have developed in the home and in their communities are seen as resources for learning, my study involved children in an English nursery, who were asked to make images of special people, days out, toys,...
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iOrchestra
Society, Politics & Law

iOrchestra

...communities through music...[Online Orchestra logo] “We’re asking how we can use the internet to give children and amateur musicians who live in remote communities around the country the same opportunities to play in an orchestra as those who live in larger towns and cities. We’re designing an online orchestra that will allow people who live hundreds of miles apart...
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