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How Emma Raducanu’s parents strike the right balance: supporting your child athlete
Health, Sports & Psychology

How Emma Raducanu’s parents strike the right balance: supporting your child athlete

...Open without dropping a set. Shortly after that win, Dr Jessica Pinchbeck looked at the important role her parents played in her career and life up to that point...This content is associated with The Open University's Sport and Fitness courses and qualifications. Many parents are faced with a difficult question of how to best support the sporting excellence of their...
Privileged and Overconfident but Full Steam Ahead!
Health, Sports & Psychology

Privileged and Overconfident but Full Steam Ahead!

...educated members of an elite, millionaire set. David Cameron’s Cabinet was notably composed of members of the ‘Bullingdon club’– the infamous Oxford University dining club. Even in Theresa May’s Cabinet, which has the lowest number of private-school educated ministers since 1945, 33% of the total positions are held by an Oxbridge educated group, whilst most of...
Interdisciplinary study: disciples of disciplines?
Education & Development

Interdisciplinary study: disciples of disciplines?

...education itself, for example, Bridges suggests that: ‘Discipline meant that enquiry was conducted in accordance with some established rules and procedures which provided the basis for among other things distinguishing truth from falsity, warranted from unwarranted belief. The requirement for disciplined enquiry became translated into the ‘disciplines’ which...
Year of the Rat: Chinese New Year
Languages

Year of the Rat: Chinese New Year

...of their reproduction rate, married couples also prayed to them for children. The Chinese New Year of 2020 falls on January 25th (Saturday), and the festival will last to February 8th, about 15 days in total. Celebrate the new year by dipping into some of our fantastic resources on China and Chinese. Want to learn some Chinese words and phrases? Explore Chinese culture...
100 Years of Votes for (some) Women
History & The Arts

100 Years of Votes for (some) Women

...1918, 8.5 million women voted for the first time in a General Election. To celebrate this historic event we've made a short film on two remarkable suffragettes, Flora Murray and Louisa Garrett Anderson. Check out their incredible story below then dig deeper into our resources on suffragettes, women's history and feminism. Endell Street: A Suffragette Story Transcript...
Budget 2016: The Experts Respond
Society, Politics & Law

Budget 2016: The Experts Respond

...education classes have a detectable impact on weight among children, perhaps because these substitute alternative forms of physical activity. But enabling children to do physical exercise is a good thing in itself, irrespective of the effect it might have on weight. Infrastructure Geraint Johnes, professor of economics, Lancaster University The Chancellor’s...
Young carers, COVID-19 and physical activity
Health, Sports & Psychology

Young carers, COVID-19 and physical activity

...education. Having to continue education from home may pose additional pressures for the young carers. It is also possible that their caring responsibilities for their parent s) means they have very limited/no parental who would normally help them with ‘home schooling’ is the one they are caring for. For the young carer, participation in PE and school-based sport might...
The impact of a Professional Doctorate
Education & Development

The impact of a Professional Doctorate

...educational experiences of four OU graduates, and the difference the professional doctorate made in their lives. Transcripts Professor Hazel Reid - Transcript Dr Eddie Rocks - Transcript Dr Pauline Lyseight-jones - Transcript Dr Tim Maxwell - Transcript EdD stories Read about the personal and professional impact of the Professional Doctorate on OU graduates. EdD posters...