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The health impacts of FGM
Health, Sports & Psychology

The health impacts of FGM

...management of complications. Department of Sexual and Reproductive Health and Research. https://www.who.int/publications/b/75811 [Accessed 4th February 2026]. UNICEF (2024) Female genital mutilation (FGM): Over 230 million girls and women worldwide have undergone female genital mutilation. https://data.unicef.org/topic/child-protection/female-genital-mutilation/ [Accessed...
Understanding antibiotic resistance Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Understanding antibiotic resistance

...manage your digital badges online from My OpenLearn. In addition, you can download and print your OpenLearn statement of participation - which also displays your Open University badge. The Open University would really appreciate a few minutes of your time to tell us about yourself and your expectations for the course before you begin, in our optional start-of-course...
Language of Poverty
Society, Politics & Law

Language of Poverty

...project, for example, that low earners will be 15% poorer by 2020 than they are currently. So what we are seeing is an attempt to redirect people’s entirely justifiable anger at the ever declining living standards from those responsible for the current crisis, those at the top, to people’s neighbours down the street. But of course they are exploiting fissures which...
Reading visual images
Society, Politics & Law

Reading visual images

...project aspirational values that the advertiser assumes are congenial to those who read the magazines where the advertisement will be placed. The expectation is that, as viewers, we (or some of us, at least) will identify with the Bradleys, see in them a family that we would like to be part of, and thus be attentive to the message contained in the advert. If we apply a...
Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
The family at the centre of early learning
Education & Development

The family at the centre of early learning

...manage and the rabbit is dropped on its head! Juanita uses a chair as a table top where she arranges domestic materials to hand, like those she has seen in her mother’s shop. She incorporates books and objects into her play to explore what she has seen others doing and what she has experienced herself. (Adapted from Cameron et al., 2011) The researchers noted that...
The social nature of being human
Society, Politics & Law

The social nature of being human

...manage to influence the representation of the event. Alternatively, you might want to focus on how the TV footage represents the activists – or the orchestra. Make some notes below. When posing your questions, think also about which of your questions could be answered by analysing the video itself, and which would necessitate broadening the inquiry’s horizon, looking...
Exploring Thomas Hardy's Far From the Madding Crowd
History & The Arts

Exploring Thomas Hardy's Far From the Madding Crowd

...manage it. The local community takes great interest in her independent ways and managerial skills. Box 2 Chapter XIII Chapter XIII is called ‘Sortes sanctorum: the valentine’. The Latin words translate as ‘the oracles of the holy scripture’ and refer to using the Bible as a kind of fortune-telling device or as a way to solve problems; opening it and alighting on a...
Teachers sharing resources online
Education & Development

Teachers sharing resources online

...management, professional development, special needs, literacy, science, you know, personally I think it’s got everything that I need. Raj Martyn Robinson-Slater My name is Martyn Robinson-Slater. I now work at the International School of Bremen. I have been in the teaching profession for over 36 ... this is my 36th year of teaching. Using TES Connect I would say it...
Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs