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The Silver Bridge Disaster: Eyebars in suspension
Science, Maths & Technology

The Silver Bridge Disaster: Eyebars in suspension

...opening day. Walter Carpenter My father was Vice-President of the corporation that built the Silver Bridge. It was a wonderful time to be a young American boy. The Roaring Twenties, they called it, and America had…had never been as prosperous, they just thought nothing but the best in the future and a wonderful time for America. The St Marys Citizens Band marched at the...
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How is Italy reinventing the co-op?
Money & Business

How is Italy reinventing the co-op?

...Open Group, a 300-member social cooperative, runs a dizzying array of programs out of a buzzing office near Bologna’s central train station. A bike lane is painted across their floor to underscore one of its numerous missions: making Bologna into Italy’s best city for bicycling. Other missions include: Rehabilitating drug and alcohol addicts; Providing services to...
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How Emma Raducanu’s parents strike the right balance: supporting your child athlete
Health, Sports & Psychology

How Emma Raducanu’s parents strike the right balance: supporting your child athlete

...Open without dropping a set. Shortly after that win, Dr Jessica Pinchbeck looked at the important role her parents played in her career and life up to that point...This content is associated with The Open University's Sport and Fitness courses and qualifications. Many parents are faced with a difficult question of how to best support the sporting excellence of their...
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Do I have mental health problems and should I get some help?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Do I have mental health problems and should I get some help?

...open up about their mental health problems, especially in the workplace. In addition to this legal advancement, large-scale public campaigns have sought to challenge mental health stigma, and increase awareness of its negative impact. For example “Time to Change” in England, which has sought to reduce mental health-related stigma and discrimination since 2009. [Time...
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Home education for children with special educational needs
Education & Development

Home education for children with special educational needs

...Open University’s Childhood and Youth Studies qualification. This made me question my identity as a teacher and wonder what schools were for, and motivated me to undertake a doctoral study at The Open University (awarded in 2022) to understand what was happening. Increasing ‘official’ numbers Recent years have seen media focus on rising numbers of home-educated...
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Closing the awarding gap: practical actions to support Black and minority ethnic students
Education & Development

Closing the awarding gap: practical actions to support Black and minority ethnic students

...Open University scholarship (2020–2024), Rajvinder Samra explores how educators can help to close the awarding gap for Black and minority ethnic students. ...Awarding gaps between Black and minority ethnic students and their white peers remain a persistent challenge across higher education. While the causes are complex, evidence emerging since 2020 – including...
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An exploration of ‘doing’ ethics in design practice
Science, Maths & Technology

An exploration of ‘doing’ ethics in design practice

...open letter from the Future of Life Institute (2023) called for a pause on training AI systems more powerful than GPT‑4. They argued that we needed time to breathe, reflect, and figure out how to make AI safer and more trustworthy before it outpaced us completely. To look at the risks of this ‘race to replace.’ This surge of public attention didn’t just shine a...
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Getting started with German 3
Languages

Getting started with German 3

...course is an extract from the beginning of the Open Centre for Languages and Cultures short course, LGXG003 Beginners German 3: richtig so! After completing this free course, you may wish to register for the full course to continue your learning!...You'll start this course by building your vocabulary with language to use whilst shopping, such as items of...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs