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Five tips for making friends at university
Education & Development

Five tips for making friends at university

...Health & Wellbeing at Wrexham University, shares five tips on what you can do to help build friendships as you start your university journey. Transcript Try new things Make a list of things you’d like to have a go at, and then have a go at them! It might be a walking group, a singing group, a dance class, a reading group… Following your own interests can be a great...
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Unlikely Leaders
Money & Business

Unlikely Leaders

...Health and Wellbeing Sara Mackian nominates comedian Russell Brand as her 'Unlikely Leader'. Maryam Bibi Senior Lecturer in Enterprise Development Richard Blundel nominates the co-founder of the Kwendo Kor charity, Maryam Bibi as his 'Unlikely Leader'. Khwendo Kor (‘Sister’s Home’) is a non-profit, non-partisan organization, which has worked since 1993 for the...
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Video 58 mins
Key Ideas in Therapy
Health, Sports & Psychology

Key Ideas in Therapy

...health marketplace, so how do you know which one is right for you? It turns out that the type of therapy might be less important that the type of therapist you get. This film looks at why the relationship between therapist and client is so important. This animation was developed by Dr Naomi Moller, Lecturer in Psychology at the Open University, and Damn Fine Media. Beyond...
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Water in Ethiopia
Nature & Environment

Water in Ethiopia

...health, improved productivity and has brought the community together. Three Ways of Getting Water: City supply In Gondar, a quarter of a million residents rely on the city reservoir and water treatment works. In addition to increasing pressures from a growing population, the reservoir is already filling up with silt washed down from the surrounding area; made worse by...
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Audio 32 mins
Promoting the effective management of children’s pain – part 2
Health, Sports & Psychology

Promoting the effective management of children’s pain – part 2

...Health Commission on children’s pain, calls for parents/carers to be involved in decisions relating to pain management in their infants and children, so that their views and values are considered. Parent participants in Simons and Plowright Pepper’s study (2024) described hospitalisation as ‘stressful, bewildering, quite frustrating’ and that often ‘parents can...
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Level 2: Intermediate 4 hrs
How did Trump win the White House?
Society, Politics & Law

How did Trump win the White House?

...public eye for over 30 years, which meant that he entered the race with nearly 100 percent name recognition. Trump’s longstanding status as a celebrity enabled him to garner relentless media attention from the moment he entered the race. One study found that by May 2016 Trump had received the equivalent of US$3 billion in free advertising from the media coverage his...
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Free School Meals: An OpenLearn reading list
Education & Development

Free School Meals: An OpenLearn reading list

...publication was produced annually and reflected the proportion of young people from the top three and bottom four socio-economic classes who participated for the first time in full-time higher education. The publication also included an annex that reproduced some of the other published measures of widening participation (WP). One of these WP measures, “the FSM...
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28 July 2005: 4 o'clock and all is well
OpenLearn Ireland

28 July 2005: 4 o'clock and all is well

...public events followed; conversations on progress within the peace process. [The full text of IRA statement from 28 July 2005. See paragraph below for full transcript.]IRA statement from 28 July, 2005. View the full-size version Text transcript Oglaigh na h-Eireann The leadership of Oglaigh na hEireann has formally ordered an end to the armed campaign. This will take...
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