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Science, Maths & Technology

Returning to STEM

...work in Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics. The course is intended for anyone who wants to get back into STEM work after having a break, whether to care for family, because of redundancy or for other reasons. Watch the following video in which Dr Sue Black OBE introduces the course. Transcript There are case study videos placed throughout the course to show...
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Level 3: Advanced 24 hrs
Speeches and speech-making
History & The Arts

Speeches and speech-making

...work through this course you will frequently be thinking about the audiences (or readers) for written texts. But for the purposes of the next activity we will move away from the printed page so that we can listen to some examples of famous speeches, and begin to analyse their effects. Listen to the following audio, ‘Speeches and speech-making’, and then answer the...
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Level 1: Introductory 1 hr
Terminal illness and wellbeing: supporting people in the workplace
Health, Sports & Psychology

Terminal illness and wellbeing: supporting people in the workplace

...work impacts on people’s wellbeing. People often presume and create a separation between their work life and their private life. However, life events like having a terminal diagnosis, which may be considered private, can impact a person’s work. In this article, we provide several tips for supporting people with a terminal illness in the workplace...Once someone has a...
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Article 5 mins
Trust in the Workplace
Health, Sports & Psychology

Trust in the Workplace

...Work theme in our Applying Psychology to Work hub we have many rescources to help you explore managing trust...The theme of trust at work presents one of the five main priorities in the Applying Psychology to Work hub. Our research highlighted that many organisations were contemplating actions that would potentially impact their employees’ wellbeing, job security and...
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Article 10 mins
Solving the perplexing mathematicians' problem of the spectre
Science, Maths & Technology

Solving the perplexing mathematicians' problem of the spectre

...succeeded until David Smith in 2023. [A hat aligned to its underlying grid.] The image above is of the hat, aligned to its underlying grid. Smith’s tile was based on the hexagon, which allows it to cover the infinite surface. But Smith also noticed that the patterns it created seemed to be aperiodic. Nicknamed “the hat”, this tile was proved to be aperiodic in a...
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Article 5 mins
Ashura
History & The Arts

Ashura

...succeeded him as Caliph. The people of Kufa, a city in southern Iraq, responded by inviting Husayn, Ali and Fatima’s younger son, to lead them in a movement of opposition to him. Husayn accepted the invitation and with a small party of close family members and friends, he set out for Kufa from Medina where he had been living. A large detachment of soldiers sent by the...
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Article 5 mins
Is cleaning a route to a better life for migrants?
Society, Politics & Law

Is cleaning a route to a better life for migrants?

...work may make the dream of integration harder for new arrivals to achieve...Let me at once introduce you to the main character of this blog post: Kifibin. He is a Ugandan man in his mid-thirties currently working as a cleaner in Finland. His story includes many characteristics typical of migrant cleaners’ trajectories: he began cleaning work while studying on an...
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Article 5 mins
Dr Eric Addae Kyeremeh on his experience at The Open University
Education & Development

Dr Eric Addae Kyeremeh on his experience at The Open University

...working at the OU, and his highlights...Key moments: In the first video Eric describes his experience of working at the OU for the past ten years, and the success he has had in that time. Eric explains his key moments and highlights. Transcript Staffing changes: When Eric started working at the OU, he noticed he did not observe any black colleagues. He explains here the...
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Video 15 mins