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SEND crisis: overdiagnosis - fact or fiction?
Education & Development

SEND crisis: overdiagnosis - fact or fiction?

...families incorrectly believing that a formal diagnosis is a prerequisite. Therefore, a diagnosis is sought before any support offered. Research also shows that a lack of diagnosis can have a significant impact on individual lives. This ranges from lower grades to lower self-esteem and many things in between. And these impacts are not just felt in childhood but have a...
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Article 5 mins
Dementia Awareness: What is dementia, and how can we reduce the risk?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Dementia Awareness: What is dementia, and how can we reduce the risk?

...Family members and close friends are often affected by the progress of a loved one's dementia due to little help and lack of understanding. Carers can be overworked and dementia sufferers distressed as there is an insufficiency of support and resources. [A woman speaks to her grandmother who has dementia] What are the symptoms? Every person will experience dementia...
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Article 20 mins
Innovative efforts to raise wages
Money & Business

Innovative efforts to raise wages

...family and personal interests. Increasingly, people feel as if they simply live to work rather than work to live. The attempt to increase pay can, therefore, also involve lessening the amount they work for such pay. In Europe there have been interesting experiments with reducing the working day while maintaining or even increasing pay. David Crouch looks at one such...
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Crimes of the powerful
Society, Politics & Law

Crimes of the powerful

...family violence’, which may be founded on, for example, patriarchal ideological assumptions, and ‘hate crimes’, which may be founded on, for example, racist or homophobic ideological assumptions. Crimes of the powerful White-collar crime Any criminal offence committed by a person of relatively high status or who holds relatively high levels of trust where the...
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Level 3: Advanced 2 hrs
Agatha Christie and the golden age of detective fiction
History & The Arts

Agatha Christie and the golden age of detective fiction

...history of publishing. As Charles Rzepka puts it, Christie is ‘not only the most prolific and popular author of detective fiction in the twentieth century, but the world’s best-selling writer, ever’ (a record which remains intact at the time of writing). In this free course you’ll examine one of Christie’s most significant works, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
Free School Meals: An OpenLearn reading list
Education & Development

Free School Meals: An OpenLearn reading list

...families received Working Tax Credits and earned less than £16,040 (the extended entitlement pilot). The National Centre for Social Work picked through the results: Impact on take-up of free school meals Most pupils in the universal pilot areas took up the offer of free school meals. Around nine in 10 primary school pupils were taking at least one school meal per week by...
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Promoting equality through the Arts
History & The Arts

Promoting equality through the Arts

...family, music, and the digital images that they carry in their pockets make them feel ‘at home’: “My family is where my home is and also I think the language and the accent for me means home because it's so distinctive wherever you go.” “When we were first married we lived in five houses in about four years. We had one big rug, very little else, but wherever we...
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The Balakot Earthquake: Ten years on
Science, Maths & Technology

The Balakot Earthquake: Ten years on

...families of the dead and injured were compensated, and grants given for house reconstruction outside the red zone. But far fewer people told us they’d received help to rebuild their livelihoods. Although commercial activity started again days after the devastation, local entrepreneurs described to us how they had initially struggled to recapitalise their businesses. In...
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