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Ten tips for students starting university
Education & Development

Ten tips for students starting university

...free course... Managing my money for young adults 2: Learn how to prepare some healthy meals [Four lunchboxes with healthy food] It’s easy to order duck pancakes from the sofa or grab a kebab on the way home from a night out, but healthy eating will impact your overall health and wellbeing. Learn more about nutrition and the science behind it with this free course......
The music from An Introduction to Music Research
History & The Arts

The music from An Introduction to Music Research

If you're studying the free course An Introduction to Music Research, this is the audio for section one...Track one Track two Track three Return to the course Not studying this course yet? Find out more about it
Why has English taken over academia?
Languages

Why has English taken over academia?

...languages, the fault isn't with the language but with economics. Anna Kristina Hultgren and Elizabeth J. Erling explain...[Morrissey on a classroom wall in Manchester] A mural of Morrissey on a Manchester classroom wall Not only is April 23 the anniversary of William Shakespeare’s death, but the UN has chosen it as UN English Language Day in tribute to the Bard. [The...
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...free courses to help you learn new skills or change jobs using the DfE's Skills Toolkit. [Google logo] Google and the OU are working together to promote development in key employability skills. You can find out more about Google's educational projects in this area, along with links to our free Google-endorsed courses on our Soft skills training page. [Logo for the UK...
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Looking globally: the future of education
Education & Development

Looking globally: the future of education

...free course about teaching for the future. Watch the trailer here:...The next generation will need skills that may be distinctly different to those we can easily imagine today. Education will have to enable young people to be flexible, to quickly and efficiently learn what they need to know, to dismiss fake facts, to think critically and to offer creative solutions for...
Wimbledon - The Championships
Health, Sports & Psychology

Wimbledon - The Championships

...FREE courses We've put together some of our top FREE courses - perfect if you're a budding athlete, a coach or mentor, psychologist, or if you just want to find out more about sport and fitness. Women in sport Discover a series of articles on women in sport, such as the challenges faced when returning to compete after becoming a mother. Anyone for tennis? Take a look at...
The psychological benefits of multilingualism
Languages

The psychological benefits of multilingualism

...languages, being a polyglot also has some rather useful psychological benefits. Indeed, the act of learning languages helps the development of competencies such as tolerating ambiguity and managing emotional skills. Multilingualism research indicates that a high level of multilingualism and multiculturalism makes people more tolerant of ambiguity (Dewaele and Wei 2013)....
Lady Llanover, Welsh airs and national harmony
History & The Arts

Lady Llanover, Welsh airs and national harmony

...language folk music?...Find out more about The Open University’s music courses_.  _ At the 1837 Abergavenny Eisteddfod, a prize was offered for ‘For the best collection of original unpublished Welsh airs, with the words as sung by the peasantry of Wales’. It was won by Maria Jane Williams, with a collection that was published in 1844 as Ancient and National Airs...