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Journeying through wellbeing: Exploring mental health and wellbeing
Health, Sports & Psychology

Journeying through wellbeing: Exploring mental health and wellbeing

...education can help, you may want to further explore OpenLearn, FutureLearn or organisations like Men’s Sheds Cymru. For further support, Ageing Well in Wales have developed a pocket guide to help with loneliness. Although this is aimed at older people, the advice is universal in helping with feelings of loneliness and making connections. Mental health problems This...
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Article 10 mins
10 flabbergasting facts you'll find on OpenLearn
Miscellaneous

10 flabbergasting facts you'll find on OpenLearn

...educated at home and reputedly learned Chinese by listening outside the door while her father taught her brother. She married at about the age of twenty but her husband died soon after, leaving her with a daughter. She then lived quietly for some years. In 1004 Murasaki entered the service of the Empress Akiko, possibly due to her talent for story-writing. No one knows...
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EPQs: designing your research question
Education & Development

EPQs: designing your research question

...education. The ten words she chose (Figure 3) look very different to Sevasti’s because they have very different research interests. Your ten words will be unique to you and your interests. To design a draft research question, you could look to how these words could be combined. For example, a question that comes out of Ann’s ten words in Figure 3 might be: how...
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Race, ethnicity and crime
Society, Politics & Law

Race, ethnicity and crime

...education, so you’re basically stigmatised for life. We have thousands of Black and Latino men, who have basically been pushed out of society – permanently – as a result of their involvement in drugs, which means that they’re not able to be good fathers to their children, to be good partners to the women and the mothers, the people in their lives. It means that...
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Level 3: Advanced 1 hr
Sustainable Scotland
Nature & Environment

Sustainable Scotland

...technologies and the development of extensive transport networks for goods and people. The increasing movement of peoples between different states to find work is an example of our global world. Economic migration (that is, moving to another place to find work) is now fairly common. For example, the expansion of the European Union (EU) to include Eastern European...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Succeed in the workplace Badge icon
Education & Development

Succeed in the workplace

...educational course vital to the next stage of your career. In this situation, the general interview guidelines apply, but you should also familiarise yourself with the entry requirements. You need to be prepared to talk in detail about the content of your previous study. For a vocational course, identify specific examples of experience you have gained through related...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Applying social work law to asylum and immigration
Society, Politics & Law

Applying social work law to asylum and immigration

...educate, explain and lobby for legal change. As political turmoil, wars and natural disasters seemingly continue to unfold, so does the need for people to seek refuge. At the time of preparing these OpenLearn course materials the War in Ukraine started to unfold and an estimated 2.6 million people had fled the country. As a result, the UK Government instigated the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Marketing communications as a strategic function
Money & Business

Marketing communications as a strategic function

...technology for this purpose has swiftly been dubbed ‘e-detailing’, and has attracted a number of specialist communications agencies into the field. One such firm, ePocrates, sends brief details of new products to doctors via their Personal Digital Assistants – a popular productivity tool amongst American professionals. In keeping with permission-led electronic...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs