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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...
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Article 10 mins
LGBTQIA rights: why The Good Friday Agreement matters
Society, Politics & Law

LGBTQIA rights: why The Good Friday Agreement matters

...resources exploring why the Good Friday Agreement is relevant to our lives 25 years since its signing. New energy: why the Good Friday Agreement helped the LGBTQIA+ civil rights movement There has never been a better time to be LGBTQIA+ in Northern Ireland. The rights and protections afforded to LGBTQIA+ people in 2023 go beyond what I believe we could have envisioned in...
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Article 5 mins
Listen Up! Developing an appreciation of music
History & The Arts

Listen Up! Developing an appreciation of music

...Open University's Music courses and qualifications Music can be appreciated in a number of different ways and on a number of different levels. For some people, music is essentially a sensual, physical experience – the urge to move the body and to dance to certain pieces of music can often prove irresistible. For other people, though, enjoyment and pleasure is gained...
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Article 10 mins
From old English to modern English
History & The Arts

From old English to modern English

...Open University’s Language Studies qualification. How and why has English changed over time? In this brief introduction to the subject, I will show how we can look at the history of a language in two main ways: externally – where, why and by whom the language was used; the political and social factors causing change – and internally – the pronunciation, grammar,...
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Article 10 mins
Urban trees - could towns and cities become forests?
Nature & Environment

Urban trees - could towns and cities become forests?

...open heaths, bogs and grasslands. Today, although only about six percent of the land in Britain is urban, almost 85% of the population lives in towns and cities. The ancient woods that once covered much of Britain now make up a tiny proportion of the landscape, and even less in these urban areas. If you live in a British town or city today, you probably still encounter...
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The research and modelling of COVID-19
Science, Maths & Technology

The research and modelling of COVID-19

...Open University, interviews Dr Sayantan Banerjee, a statistician from IIM-Indore...[Photo of Sayantan Banerjee] Dr Sayantan Banerjee Dr. Sayantan Banerjee is currently working as an Assistant Professor in the Operations Management & Quantitative Techniques Area at the Indian Institute of Management, Indore (IIM-Indore). He has a PhD in Statistics from North Carolina State...
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Criminology beyond crime
Society, Politics & Law

Criminology beyond crime

...Course image Basheer Tome in Flickr made available under Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Licence. Don't miss out If reading this text has inspired you to learn more, you may be interested in joining the millions of people who discover our free learning resources and qualifications by visiting The Open University – www.open.edu/ openlearn/ free-courses....
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Level 3: Advanced 3 hrs
Discovering development management
Money & Business

Discovering development management

...Open University course T878 Capacities for managing development...Discovering development management: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: write a working definition of development management apply the complexity, emergence, difference (CoDE) framework to selected cases of development management develop some initial judgements of...
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Level 3: Advanced 3 hrs