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Want to achieve your goal? Try our Personal Best tool
Health, Sports & Psychology

Want to achieve your goal? Try our Personal Best tool

...health, you should talk to an expert before embarking on any programme of activity. Launch the App in Facebook You will need to sign in through your Facebook account to access the App. Once you are in, the App will be automatically saved in 'Your Apps' area. When you come back each week to record your progress, the App will remember where you were last time and calculate...
Should I use a skills-based CV to smooth the gaps in my employment history?
Money & Business

Should I use a skills-based CV to smooth the gaps in my employment history?

...ask their permission first) You do not need to include: nationality (unless you will need a UK work permit) marital status details and ages of children your health status school and university address examining boards minor qualifications unrelated to the post applied for You can find further support with developing an effective CV as part of the Learning To Learn course...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Meet the OU experts behind 'Hospital'
Health, Sports & Psychology

Meet the OU experts behind 'Hospital'

...many OU students working in health and social care as well as a large portfolio of courses teaching health and social care; so we would hope that our OU students connect with this programme and feel it represents something true to them." View our co-production Take our quiz on ethical decision-making Try a free course on healthcare Become a student at The Open University...
Are selfies a terrible thing?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Are selfies a terrible thing?

...health is spreading. There is concern that there may be a link between an apparent recent rise in mental health concerns in millennials and taking, editing and posting selfies online. [The Conversation] As a relatively recent phenomenon, most of us are still trying to get our heads around the potential impact of “selfie culture”. So when people aren’t worrying over...