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Free employability and training courses to support your Kickstart Scheme journey – for candidates and employers
Education & Development

Free employability and training courses to support your Kickstart Scheme journey – for candidates and employers

...free online courses allow learners to enhance their digital and employability skills to suit any industry placement. These free, self-paced courses provide Kickstart employees an opportunity to plug any skills gaps, build their confidence and will help younger people transition into their next job, create a business or continue to explore learning pathways open to them....
Reflections on the Free to Bleed event at the Vagina Museum
Health, Sports & Psychology

Reflections on the Free to Bleed event at the Vagina Museum

...Free to Bleed at the Vagina Museum event, held on Menstrual Health Day, 28th May 2026...Find out more about The Open University's Law courses and qualifications. This article is part of the Free to Bleed: Data Driven Advocacy and Art for Menstrual Justice project, an Open University and Vagina Museum collaboration funded by the Open Societal Challenges initiative. It...
Free School Meals: An OpenLearn reading list
Education & Development

Free School Meals: An OpenLearn reading list

...Free School Meals not receive them? In 2012, research suggested that as more than one in four children who could be receiving Free School Meals were not taking advantage of the benefit. Angus Holford of the University of Essex carried out research into the peer effect. He found that encouraging a small number of children to take the meals had a larger knock-on effect:...
Freeing people caught between life and death
Health, Sports & Psychology

Freeing people caught between life and death

...free them...[Charon, ferryman of Hades] Charon, who in Greek myth takes the dead on their journey from the land of the living "Imagine you wake up, locked inside a box,” says Adrian Owen. “It’s only just big enough to hold your body but sufficiently small that you can’t move. “It’s a perfect fit, down to every last one of your fingers and toes. It’s a...
Project Fear: Order your free graphic novel
Science, Maths & Technology

Project Fear: Order your free graphic novel

...free us from fear? Simon Bell & Charles Cutting's graphic novel asks the question...Find out more about The Open University's Design courses and qualifications. We are all victims of fear. Project Fear has been with us for hundreds of years. So far, we have made little attempt to map fear or understand how it is used. Find out how fear is weaponised and targeted and how...
Science doesn't know how free divers do it
Health, Sports & Psychology

Science doesn't know how free divers do it

...course, free divers decided to do it anyway – and they swam well past those theoretical limits. How? Martina Amati, the free diver and artist involved in the project, tried to explain the mind set that goes with this extreme sport: There is an element of physicality but it’s mainly mental. That’s what is incredible about free diving. It’s not about your physical...
Download your free Matrix of Modern Life poster
Science, Maths & Technology

Download your free Matrix of Modern Life poster

...free 'Matrix of Modern Life' poster. From the Large Hadron Collider to your microwave oven, jumbo jet to fuel cells, the poster shows the colourful connections between science and technology. All presented in the big, bold Bang style! This large poster is ideal to go on the wall at home or at school. You can also see what other free booklets and posters are available....
Pore-free die casting (active atmosphere casting)
Science, Maths & Technology

Pore-free die casting (active atmosphere casting)

...free die casting (Active atmosphere casting)] Conventional high pressure die casting uses air at 10–20 MPa to fill the mould rapidly, leading to air entrapment (porosity) in the casting, with a reduction in mechanical properties, weldability, ease of heat treatment and pressure soundness. Low pressure die casting and the "Acurad" process overcome porosity to some...