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The OU Welcomes Carers
Health, Sports & Psychology

The OU Welcomes Carers

...systems to ensure we are ideally placed to help carers access and succeed in education. For example, we have a carer identification system; a Student Carer Policy, which sets out the support arrangements in place specifically for carers; a frontline team of staff trained in carer support; a dedicated ‘Support for carers’ Help Centre page that outlines all the support...
The Peace Dividend: why Good Friday Agreement matters to us and Earth
Society, Politics & Law

The Peace Dividend: why Good Friday Agreement matters to us and Earth

...system change, biosphere integrity, climate change, novel entities, and biogeochemical flows.] Figure 1 - Breaching our planetary boundaries. Source: Steffen et al, 2015 This is not merely a story about carbon emissions (the driver of the greenhouse effect, and therefore global heating), but about all the ways in which our economy interacts with the earth, it extracts and...
The Good Friday Agreement and the future of the union
Society, Politics & Law

The Good Friday Agreement and the future of the union

...system of governance was created, with the use of D’Hondt, petition of concerns, power-sharing and mandatory coalitions, Northern Ireland post 1998 returned to a devolved system if Government with an Assembly as opposed to a Parliament, a First Minister/Deputy First Minister as opposed to a Prime Minister and MLAs as opposed to MPs. The powers of the institutions were...
Euro 24: Innovation and Trends in Modern Football
Health, Sports & Psychology

Euro 24: Innovation and Trends in Modern Football

...system will be implemented during the 2024 Euros to tackle online abuse. A 2022 study by FIFA and players’ union Fifpro revealed that over 50% of players in the semi-finals and finals of Euro 2020 and the 2022 Africa Cup of Nations experienced online abuse. Time will tell if the new system tackles instances of online abuse towards players effectively. Fans at matches...
Should we educate prisoners?
Society, Politics & Law

Should we educate prisoners?

...system. However, when it comes to Higher Education in prison, the approach is currently somewhat chaotic, which means that for many prisoners, access to Higher Education can be a lottery, depending on the particular prison that they find themselves in. For example, structural barriers such as the so-called ‘six-year rule’ has the effect of restricting and discouraging...
Is America better than this?
Society, Politics & Law

Is America better than this?

...systemic racism, economic inequality, an under-resourced public education system and the intentional sabotage of bipartisan politics (mostly by the Republican Party), the United States is dangerously divided. As Abraham Lincoln warned in 1858, “a house divided cannot stand”. The election of Raphael Warnock will be interpreted as a beacon of hope, and maybe it is –...
Double trouble: my experience of studying part-time as a mixed-race individual
Education & Development

Double trouble: my experience of studying part-time as a mixed-race individual

...think another big reason why I would say you should definitely go to an in-person graduation is because when studying, it can feel like when you’re talking about it with others they look at you like it’s a different language altogether. It can be a little isolating in that way as something you could talk or write about all day, for others merely just being polite or a...
The Value of Emotional Intelligence in a Challenging Workplace
Health, Sports & Psychology

The Value of Emotional Intelligence in a Challenging Workplace

...think and behave differently when emotions are higher? They argued against traditional thinking that emotions lead to irrational behaviour, but instead proposed that understanding your own emotions and those of others may allow us to manage and adapt our behaviour in a positive way, and it is these skills they called ‘emotional intelligence’. Salovey and Mayer’s...