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Unmasking inequalities: what COVID-19 revealed about the degree awarding gap at The Open University
Digital & Computing

Unmasking inequalities: what COVID-19 revealed about the degree awarding gap at The Open University

...work responsibilities and mental health challenges as key hurdles disproportionately affecting ethnic minority learners. These factors often intersected. A student juggling NHS shifts, caring responsibilities and unreliable broadband was more likely to disengage, defer or underperform – not due to lack of motivation, but due to overwhelming structural pressures. [Blue...
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Improving the everyday lives of carers
Health, Sports & Psychology

Improving the everyday lives of carers

...work in order to provide full-time care. In our project over 60% of family carers were not in paid employment. Our own research has shown that despite the various white papers from the UK Government supporting carers and the introduction of the Carer’s Assessment and Carer’s Allowance, many carers feel undervalued by society and looked down on by some people because...
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Afterword to Representing Religions: Race, Rationality, Colonialism and Anthropology
History & The Arts

Afterword to Representing Religions: Race, Rationality, Colonialism and Anthropology

...work of Andrew Lattas – that the radio masts could be understood as evidence not of irrationality but of bricolage and creativity, whereby local ritual technologies for communicating with the dead were blended together with Western communication technologies. Once posed in this way, the question about action became one of agency and power rather than one of rationality....
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How to start a course
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How to start a course

...work through the course. The tracking bar will reach 100% when you have viewed all of the pages of the course and you have completed any quizzes and assessments, if they are available on that course. You can also use the Content screen to see which pages and sections you have completed. Scroll down to 'Expand all content' and you will see ticks alongside each completed...
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The meaning of home in later life
Health, Sports & Psychology

The meaning of home in later life

...work and care continues to change as families, communities and society transform over time. Here the concept of home may take on new meanings in trying to maintain a sense of attachment, stability and refuge. Home has also embraced the technological and digital. For people in the UK, being able to stay in their own home in old age may involve the use of assistive...
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How can we encourage people to mend their clothes?
Science, Maths & Technology

How can we encourage people to mend their clothes?

...work. A repair café might be perfect for the craft mender, but not very appealing to the delegating mender or someone who’s never picked up a needle. So what do we do? Stitching together a solution To build a mending mindset across society, we need to bring together lots of threads. Here are just a few ideas: Bring back sewing in schools, so future generations grow up...
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Inclusive education: knowing what we mean (Wales)
Education & Development

Inclusive education: knowing what we mean (Wales)

...working with children, government documents and a campaigning organisation. Many of these comments were made when the term ‘inclusion’ was first coming into common use among education practitioners. As you read them, compare these views with your own. Chris Darlington who at the time of writing is head of a special school and president of the National Association for...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Difference and challenge in teams
Money & Business

Difference and challenge in teams

...work with that? There are too many big egos; too many people with points to prove and score off each other. Activity 2 Timing: (30 minutes) Think back to a time of outright, heated, conflict at work – one you experienced directly or indirectly. Choose one of the people involved in the conflict (you, the person you were in conflict with, or another colleague). List five...
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Level 1: Introductory 2 hrs