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Ten tips for students starting university
Education & Development

Ten tips for students starting university

...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 science of nutrition and healthy eating 3: Manage your time more effectively...
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Understanding ADHD
Health, Sports & Psychology

Understanding ADHD

...health...Understanding ADHD: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: define key terms in the field of ADHD describe the characteristics of ADHD and how they are used in diagnosis describe the patterns of prevalence of ADHD, including the reasons for disparities worldwide describe risk factors and brain changes associated with ADHD outline...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Personality: A user guide
Health, Sports & Psychology

Personality: A user guide

...health, your sexual promiscuity, your likelihood of divorce, how happy you typically are – even your taste in paintings. Personality is a much better predictor of these things than social class or age. The origin of these differences is in part innate. That is to say, when people are adopted at birth and brought up by new families, their personalities are more similar...
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Article 10 mins
United We Will Swim: Women’s Role in The Struggle to Save Glasgow’s Govanhill Pool
Society, Politics & Law

United We Will Swim: Women’s Role in The Struggle to Save Glasgow’s Govanhill Pool

...Health Centre who attended the pool twice weekly for over 30 year with her disabled best friend, Margaret, a wheelchair user who enjoyed the easy access to the main pool and showers; Nessa Mechan, the local “provy wummin” and popular local campaigner who knew first hand that ordinary people did not have the means or ability to travel miles to an alternative facility;...
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History of reading tutorial 1: Finding evidence of reading in the past
History & The Arts

History of reading tutorial 1: Finding evidence of reading in the past

...public and circulating library borrowing records have been uncovered to demonstrate how often various titles were requested; the contents of private libraries have been catalogued; and even literacy rates have been used to estimate the size of the reading public. This evidence is considered to be ‘hard’ because it is measurable or quantifiable: knowing how many copies...
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Level 2: Intermediate 2 hrs
Julian Hector - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Julian Hector - Earth in Vision

...public broadcast point of view, in terms of what has loosened up, I think what has loosened it up is that all programme makers in my bit of the public service part of the broadcast world are just bombarded with source material after source material of the collapse in biodiversity and the collapse in processes in the natural world. In other words, it is becoming a bigger...
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Murals in Belfast
OpenLearn Ireland

Murals in Belfast

...public space and territory, and an assertion of identity and belonging, that was evidence of the Protestant domination of politics and society in Northern Ireland. Prior to the 1970s, the majority of Unionist/Loyalist murals were linked to the annual commemoration of the Battle of the Boyne on 12 July 1690, when Protestant Prince William of Orange defeated Catholic King...
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About Earth In Vision
Nature & Environment

About Earth In Vision

...public use. Along with the programmes themselves we have been working in the BBC’s paper archives of files related to programmes and policies, and we have also filmed nearly thirty full length interviews with media producers, from icons such as Sir David Attenborough and Desmond Morris, to up and coming digital natives who are drawing on new forms of web based social...
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