2,616 search results
Turning the pain of racial discrimination into protection for others
Education & Development

Turning the pain of racial discrimination into protection for others

...projects, such as being interviewed for two different books (Grown: The Black Girls’ Guide to Growing Up and A Quick Ting: The Black Girl Afro), talking to journalists, giving talks, being in a documentary and becoming a Dove Partner. Nobody thought this would result in court action, but the EHRC believed in my right to attend school as myself and funded my case....
View article Turning the pain of racial discrimination into protection for others
Article 15 mins
How are social workers portrayed in the media?
Languages

How are social workers portrayed in the media?

...prize winners announced at the BASW conference. There’s also the Transparency Project which aims to make family court reporting clearer. What we need now is a soap opera with a social worker as a main character to move TV dramas on from the child catcher-as-plot-device trope! This article was originally published on the Community Care website. Read the original article....
View article How are social workers portrayed in the media?
Article 5 mins
Camille Parmesan - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Camille Parmesan - Stories of Change

...Project Camille Parmesan interview Key RH: = Roger Harrabin, Interviewer CP: = Camille Parmesan, Professor, Oceans and Climate Change, Participant RH: OK Camille Parmesan, can you start with telling me how we’ve underestimated things? CP: Well, in past reports, past IPCC reports and the big event analyses that have been in the scientific literature, there have always...
View audio Camille Parmesan - Stories of Change
Audio 5 mins
The UK votes out; the EU shrinks; the world reacts
Society, Politics & Law

The UK votes out; the EU shrinks; the world reacts

...project will be at the heart of the 2017 race. Questions dominate the coverage in the regional press – with papers wondering what the impact will be on French politics, whether the EU can survive a Brexit, and what will happen next – reflecting the gamble on which the future on the EU now lies. Clément Louis Kolopp contributed to this section. United States Scott...
View article The UK votes out; the EU shrinks; the world reacts
Article 5 mins
Black and Minority Ethnic students: Mental wellbeing and study support
Health, Sports & Psychology

Black and Minority Ethnic students: Mental wellbeing and study support

...projects and public forums. https://blamuk.org/ Black Thrive Black Thrive is a partnership between communities, statutory organisations, the voluntary, and private sector working to reduce the inequality and injustices experienced by Black people in mental health services in the London Borough of Lambeth. https://www.blackthrive.org.uk/ Kindred Minds A user-led project...
View video Black and Minority Ethnic students: Mental wellbeing and study support
Video 10 mins
Ratio, proportion and percentages
Science, Maths & Technology

Ratio, proportion and percentages

...Introduction - The topics in this free course, Ratio, proportion and percentages, are concerned with dividing something into parts. For example, if there are 200 people living in a small village, and 50 of these are children, this could be expressed as a percentage: 25% of the village population are children; or as a ratio: one in every four people is a child or there is...
View course Ratio, proportion and percentages
Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
A brief history of communication: hieroglyphics to emojis
Languages

A brief history of communication: hieroglyphics to emojis

...introduction to the history of writing, and the key role it plays in human communication. It tracks this history from the invention of writing around 5500 years ago to the mass popularity of emojis today...This free course, A brief history of communication: hieroglyphics to emojis, is an introduction to the history of writing, and the key role it plays in human...
View course A brief history of communication: hieroglyphics to emojis
Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Getting started with German 3
Languages

Getting started with German 3

...Introduction - You’ll start this course by focusing on shopping, both online and in store. You’ll learn useful language for shopping, such as items of clothing, colours, and how to ask for help. You’ll also learn how to express preferences, ways of asking for and giving permission, and how to apologise. This OpenLearn course is an adapted extract from the Open...
View course Getting started with German 3
Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs