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What is Locus of Control?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What is Locus of Control?

...work? How can you take control of it? This article explores...Are you feeling out of control? How much control do you think you have? Locus of control is a term coined by Julian Rotter in the 1960s as part of his social learning theory. It refers to the belief in how much control people think they have over our own lives. You can complete a test here to see if you have an...
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Article 10 mins
Listening to young children: supporting transition
Education & Development

Listening to young children: supporting transition

...working hours, for example, might require a child to move into different childcare settings. Listening to children and their carers can highlight the impact of such changes. The macrosystem refers to the wider cultural values, laws and customs that filter through the other layers to impact on the child. Children who move between different countries, for example refugee...
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Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs
Welsh history and its sources
History & The Arts

Welsh history and its sources

...works and what it contains - This unit has been designed to help anyone with an interest in the history of Wales to find key information and to begin understanding the way that historians of Wales do their work. It is aimed both at those who are generally interested in the subject and may have a good knowledge of Welsh history already, and at those who are relatively new...
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Level 1: Introductory 25 hrs
Does Brexit mean another Scottish Independence vote?
Society, Politics & Law

Does Brexit mean another Scottish Independence vote?

...social union should be to withdraw from another major political, economic and social union. This is particularly true now that Brexit has opened up the possibility of more devolution, which had previously been more or less closed off. A feasible alternative to independence is to push for more autonomy in the areas that are devolved and currently “Europeanised” –...
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The Bottom Line Expert Opinion: The Northern Powerhouse
Money & Business

The Bottom Line Expert Opinion: The Northern Powerhouse

...social cohesion. However, that initiative has largely been either derided or forgotten. The “Northern Powerhouse” concept has similarly not fully captured the public’s imagination yet. For many this signals that the strategy could be destined to fail even before it has been fully outlined or launched. The BBC explores this possibility in their article “Northern...
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Scottish nurses striking out
Society, Politics & Law

Scottish nurses striking out

...working conditions...Find out about The Open University's History and Social Sciences courses. Setting the scene On 12 August 2022, Scotland’s highest circulation broadsheet newspaper, The Herald, carried a headline exclaiming ‘Nurses set to strike for first time in their history’. While the words made an eye-catching headline, they failed to recognise, and in...
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An introduction to European crime fiction since 1945
Health, Sports & Psychology

An introduction to European crime fiction since 1945

...social imagination of a society in any given period. European crime fiction since 1945 In 1945, most of Europe lay in ruins. The US government proposed a programme of economic reconstruction which, along with the prestige the US had gained from its role in the defeat of Nazism, led to an interest in the ‘American way of life’ in broad sections of the European public....
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Volunteering with a personal or professional focus
Education & Development

Volunteering with a personal or professional focus

...work for the benefit of their community or another organisation, or develop new skills and knowledge. It can also be a way to make sense of experiences you may have had in your personal life and use them for good. Others volunteer within their current workplace for the benefit of their co-workers. Below, be inspired by five colleagues whose volunteering has a...
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