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What are the benefits of creative play at home?
Education & Development

What are the benefits of creative play at home?

...communication with others involved in their play and negotiating skills to enable their creative vision. Creative connections are made while children play, stimulating opportunities for self-expression and building social relationships. Being creative is about exploring, not being afraid to make mistakes and using ideas and resources in new ways. This not only supports...
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Dominic Ball testimonial
Education & Development

Dominic Ball testimonial

...community, so I struggled for the first half of a six-year course. In one assignment I received 14 out 100 which made me think, I need to understand where I’m going wrong. [PFA and OU logos] Achieving his goals "I started to engage with my tutors and other students, it made the experience more enjoyable. In my last year, I finally understood how to structure my essays...
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Charity Reed
Education & Development

Charity Reed

...communication, Summarising text, The African diaspora, The American Civil Rights Movement, Janis Joplin and the Sexual Revolution, English in the world today, Simone de Beauvoir and the Feminist Revolution, Introducing philosophy and she's currently working on Exploring languages and cultures... as she said, there’s been plenty and quite a variety too. ‘The great...
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The Bottom Line Expert Opinion: Customer Service
Money & Business

The Bottom Line Expert Opinion: Customer Service

...community. Customer service can be a key but often underused method for helping companies realize social responsibility goals. Specifically, organizations can use customer relations management to respond to ethical consumer demands – such as in the case of calls for fair trade. Alternatively, they can use their influence to help promote more ethical customer behaviour....
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Why the Applying Psychology to Work hub was created
Health, Sports & Psychology

Why the Applying Psychology to Work hub was created

...communications problems impacted by COVID-19. A review of material already available on OpenLearn highlighted plenty of resources that could help address the considerable workplace changes, plus mental and emotional consequences, from the cataclysmic experience of a sequence of pandemic lockdowns. [Woman working at laptop in a mask] What can Applied Psychology contribute?...
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Year of the Dragon: Lunar New Year
Languages

Year of the Dragon: Lunar New Year

...communities and in business circles. If you want to be very clever and say ‘Happy Year of the Dragon’, you need to say 龙年快乐 (lóng nián kuà lè). Check out the audio flip cards below to hear the correct pronounciations. @@PLUGINFILE@@/dialog-cards-579-1475427%20%283%29.h5p If you wish to learn more about Chinese culture and study Mandarin Chinese, visit this...
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What does climate change mean for Pakistan?
Nature & Environment

What does climate change mean for Pakistan?

...also in southern Pakistan recorded 53.5 degrees Celsius, the highest ever recorded in Asia. Nasim says various adaptation measures, such as building the capacity of individuals and communities to respond to heat stress during heat waves, and campaigns to raise heat-health awareness, are imperative. This article was originally published by SciDevNet under a CC-BY licence...
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Year of the Tiger: Chinese New Year
Languages

Year of the Tiger: Chinese New Year

...communities and in business circles. If you want to be more specific and say ‘Happy Year of the Tiger’, you need to say: 虎年快乐！Hǔ nián kuàilè! Click here to see how the character for tiger (虎) is written (a total of 8 strokes and notice the direction in which each stroke is made). Learn a few common Chinese proverbs that contain the word ‘tiger’：...
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