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Building belonging and mattering to achieve equity for Black STEM students
Education & Development

Building belonging and mattering to achieve equity for Black STEM students

...skill-building activities, such as LinkedIn workshops, into the core of its community initiatives. References Awan, R. (2025) ‘What’s the story: Exploring inequality in outcomes through the narratives of part‑time racially minoritised students in online learning’. EdD thesis. Milton Keynes: The Open University. MacBrayne, L., Bellamy, J., Richards, A. and...
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Dying: what’s wellbeing got to do with it?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Dying: what’s wellbeing got to do with it?

...skills and governance. Personal wellbeing is a particularly important dimension which we define as how satisfied we are with our lives, our sense that what we do in life is worthwhile, our day-to-day emotional experiences (happiness and anxiety) and our wider mental wellbeing. More broadly, as researched by the What Works Centre for Wellbeing, wellbeing is about ‘how we...
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Inheritance of characters
Science, Maths & Technology

Inheritance of characters

...study in Science...Inheritance of characters: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: understand that genes are the units of inheritance for individual characteristics and also may contribute to susceptibility to certain diseases understand the number of chromosomes that make up the human genome and where they are located within the cell...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Why is Mongolia a good place to die?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Why is Mongolia a good place to die?

...studied in what was then Leningrad. She speaks fluent Russian. It was excellent tuition, she says, “but we were told simply to treat patients, not to treat them as people. There was no compassion.” The way her father died changed her outlook forever. He was diagnosed with lung cancer the same year she began her studies in Russia, and in Mongolia’s health system at...
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Article 15 mins
Applying social work law to asylum and immigration
Society, Politics & Law

Applying social work law to asylum and immigration

...studying this course, you should be able to: appreciate why social workers need to know about asylum and immigration law understand what it means to be a refugee identify the rights asylum seekers have recognise the support available, as well as barriers to migrants, asylum seekers and refugees accessing services recognise how an understanding of the law and social work...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
EPQs: writing up your dissertation
Education & Development

EPQs: writing up your dissertation

...skill for both university and working life. One of the aims of the EPQ is to help you develop your skills in using different communication tools, so you can communicate what you have found clearly and appropriately for different audiences. Communication is also a vital part of the research cycle. The progress of research thrives on the exchange, review and discussion of...
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Wales and rugby
Society, Politics & Law

Wales and rugby

...skills of their work at play in ripping the ball out of mauls, physical strength. This was damned unfair. I mean the people who played rugby in the other countries were doing it as recreation – different from their work. Here were the Welshmen employing the skill and strengths of their work actually on the field of play and that was not seen as fair play. Hugh Mackay:...
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A brief history of evolution
History & The Arts

A brief history of evolution

...studies. The founder of the modern theory of evolution was Charles Darwin. In 1859 the first edition of his On The Origin of The Species was published and it sold out in one day. The naturalist Alfred Wallace had also hit upon the idea of natural selection independently, however, his view differed from Darwin’s, most notably in that he did not think that natural...
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