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One refugee's story: A long, risky journey
Society, Politics & Law

One refugee's story: A long, risky journey

...student in Lebanon. He regularly went back to visit his family in Jobar, not far from the Syrian capital Damascus. Life was good. Then came the war. The bitter fighting between the Syrian army and the opposition intensified. Jobar became a battleground. “It [was] very dangerous. [There were] a lot of bomb, bomb, bomb,” he says. Soon neighborhood men started to...
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Article 5 mins
The world will have to wait until 2084 for universal secondary school education
Society, Politics & Law

The world will have to wait until 2084 for universal secondary school education

...students began attending university for free when the new academic year began in March 2016. They represented about half the students from the poorest 50% of Chilean households.” Sense of urgency The need for a gear change in momentum towards all seven of the targets in SDG4 on education is stressed throughout the report. Our world leaders need to demonstrate their...
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Article 10 mins
Is your social media use impacting your future?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Is your social media use impacting your future?

...students training to be a professional have ‘awareness’ of their digital footprint, but when they actually examine what they share online they are surprised by the amount of information that is available (Ryan, 2017a, b). The activity below will ask you to reflect on the type of information you share with the public on social media. Assessing your own use of social...
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Activity 5 mins
Data analysis and interpretation
Education & Development

Data analysis and interpretation

...students with disabilities, as a political act. Academic activism of this kind suggests that, in fact, ‘researchers need to engage with diverse voices […] voices may be multi-tonal and we need to think carefully about what methods we can employ in order to be sensitive to each tone’ (Seale, 2016, p. 160). Researchers could also consider how to share ownership of the...
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Article 15 mins
Amanda Theunissen - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Amanda Theunissen - Earth in Vision

...become stronger than perhaps they should. I was once at a conference with a very high up BBC person who told me how proud she was that she’d managed to persuade the controller at BBC 1 not to run environmental programmes because they were bad for the audience. Now, none of that strikes me as being particularly usefully academic. Separation of powers. I think part of it...
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Video 20 mins
Health and safety in the laboratory and field
Science, Maths & Technology

Health and safety in the laboratory and field

...students). It is the duty of every employee while at work to take reasonable care of himself (herself) and of other persons who may be affected by his (her) acts or omissions at work. The employees must cooperate with the employer with regard to health and safety procedures. This covers all types of employment within the United Kingdom. The Health and Safety at Work Act...
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Level 1: Introductory 1 hr
Equity-based research design
Education & Development

Equity-based research design

...becoming in that setting and, as Jessica Oddy acknowledges, for us ‘to radically rethink ‘expert’ roles’ (Oddy, 2021). This does not exclusively apply to outsider researchers but also to those who might consider themselves already known or with pre-existing links to a research setting. This has been illustrated by Hanna Nikkanen (2019) reflecting on feeling like a...
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Article 30 mins
Developing leadership practice in voluntary organisations
Money & Business

Developing leadership practice in voluntary organisations

...becomes increasingly difficult to distinguish one from the other. Watch the following video, where OU academic Caroline Clarke addresses the issue of narcissism in relation to leadership. CAROLINE CLARKE: The word leadership has become a bit of a catch-all. It can mean everything and nothing. And we like to invest in individuals as being heroic. So if you think about some...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs