2,355 search results
Sense of self during ageing: how mindfulness and nature can help
Health, Sports & Psychology

Sense of self during ageing: how mindfulness and nature can help

...Health and Wellbeing courses. Population ageing is a rising trend globally, with declining fertility rates and an increase in life expectancy. The UN estimates there have never been more aged people in the world than today. This means it is increasingly important that ageing well is given priority. What is ageing [A very elderly lady, full face shot showing lots of...
View article Sense of self during ageing: how mindfulness and nature can help
Article 5 mins
Foreign games consoles finally enter the Chinese market
Money & Business

Foreign games consoles finally enter the Chinese market

...health. In 2000, the State Council published a notice, joined by the Ministry of Culture and another seven administrative departments, decreeing the prohibition of manufacturing and selling game consoles in mainland China, claiming it “seriously jeopardizes young people and disturbs the social order.” This is an excerpt from the notice:
View article Foreign games consoles finally enter the Chinese market
Article 5 mins
A brief history of Harlem
Society, Politics & Law

A brief history of Harlem

...publicity and alarm amongst owners of neighbouring properties. These owners could often be relied upon to bail out quickly, allowing the blockbuster to acquire their properties cheaply; these, too, would be rented to black families. With a relatively poor section of society being asked to pay relatively high rents, the consequence was a sardine-can like squeezing of...
View article A brief history of Harlem
Article 10 mins
Judicial decision making
Society, Politics & Law

Judicial decision making

...public interest immunity’ is a process recognised by common law rules where the government can apply to a court to exclude evidence that would otherwise be used because the government believes it would harm the public interest. The evidence might put an informer’s life at risk if disclosed, or it might harm national security. Just before World War II, an experimental...
View course Judicial decision making
Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Global challenges in practice: designing a development intervention
Money & Business

Global challenges in practice: designing a development intervention

...health post in a rural area, initiating a community saving scheme, or conducting an awareness raising campaign around a specific issue in the local area. You may have noticed intervention and project are used interchangeably in this course. But what is a project? A project is a time-bound intervention, usually lasting between one and five years. It’ll be based on some...
View course Global challenges in practice: designing a development intervention
Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Harry Marshall - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Harry Marshall - Earth in Vision

...public archives, as well as the conservation of king cobras, environmental filmmakers around the world, and the box office success of River Monsters. ...Harry Marshall Harry is the Creative Director of Icon Films – a long established award-winning, UK independent production company. Over the last 25 years Icon Films has produced over 290 hours of high-end factual...
View video Harry Marshall - Earth in Vision
Video 30 mins
Open Pathways
Education & Development

Open Pathways

...Health care Leadership Achievement Award Open Learning Champions There is also anOpen Learning Champions guide which offers information and suggestions for facilitators using Open Pathways and other OpenLearn resources with learners. Open Learning Champions can come from community and voluntary organisations, colleges, libraries and others. What they have in common is an...
View activity Open Pathways
Activity 1 hr
Supporting learners to become agents for sustainability
Education & Development

Supporting learners to become agents for sustainability

...health and spiritual wellbeing, finance and economics, land tenure and community governance. The outer layer of the flower has the following 12 principles: Observe & Interact, Catch & Store Energy, Obtain a Yield, Apply Self-Regulation & Accept Feedback, Use & Value Renewable Resources, Produce Zero Waste, Design from Patterns to Details, Integrate Rather than Segregate,...
View video Supporting learners to become agents for sustainability
Video 10 mins