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Diversity in Education: Challenging the Norm in Academic Recruitment
Education & Development

Diversity in Education: Challenging the Norm in Academic Recruitment

...change to ensure diversity and inclusivity, where their roles will allow. Although we are influenced and led by the institutional culture surrounding us, we share individual and collective responsibility for challenging these norms. It is within this context that a review of recruitment practice has been undertaken by a project team consisting of academic managers within...
What does ‘inclusive education’ mean to you?
Education & Development

What does ‘inclusive education’ mean to you?

...change in attitudes, systems, and classroom practice...If you were asked to describe an ‘inclusive classroom’ or an ‘inclusive education system’, what would it look like? Who would the learners be? What and how would they be learning? In the past 30 years there has been a global move towards education that includes all learners, no matter who they are or where...
The meaning of crime
Society, Politics & Law

The meaning of crime

...change? Theft £5,000 and/or 6 months imprisonment 5 Have you kept money found in the street? Theft £5,000 and/or 6 months imprisonment 6 Have you taken ‘souvenirs’ from a pub/hotel? Theft £5,000 and/or 6 months imprisonment 7 Have you ever left a shop without paying in full for your purchases? Making off without payment £5,000 and/or 6 months imprisonment 8 Have...
Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Scottish courts and the law Badge icon
Society, Politics & Law

Scottish courts and the law

...changed nor can additions be made to them because any particular meritorious case seems outside their ambit. The common law must be sought in law books by writers of authority and in the judgments of judges entrusted with its administration. The law books give no assistance because the works of living authors, however deservedly eminent, cannot be used as authorities,...
Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
The body in antiquity
History & The Arts

The body in antiquity

...climate; major political crises have resulted from the simple fact of sexual attraction between two key figures. These may seem obvious points to make, but starting from these considerations gives us a new approach to the past and a fascinating prism through which to explore ancient societies. [Described image] Figure 2 Relief depicting an oculist examining a patient,...
Level 3: Advanced 5 hrs
Cognition and gender development
Education & Development

Cognition and gender development

...changes in superficial physical characteristics (e.g. length of hair, clothes). Stage 2: Gender stability Children recognise that gender is stable over time: boys will grow up to be daddies, and girls will grow up to be mummies. However, the unchanging nature of gender – that it remains the same regardless of changes in superficial appearance or activity choice – is...
What is Europe?
Society, Politics & Law

What is Europe?

...change and a thoroughgoing transformation of Europe from the years of the Cold War and the World War that preceded it. This course focuses on the different understandings of Europe that underlie the debates and disputes over the development of Europe. This OpenLearn course provides a sample of Level 1 study in Geography...What is Europe?: Learning outcomes - After...
Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Exploring anxiety
Science, Maths & Technology

Exploring anxiety

...changes in mood at school or at home during adolescence are often seen as a sign that a young person is simply ‘acting out’ their frustration at struggling academically or socially. Adolescence is a period of significant physical and emotional change, brain development in particular, so it is important to understand the underlying reasons for changes in mood and...
Level 3: Advanced 9 hrs