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Supporting care-experienced students in UK higher education
Health, Sports & Psychology

Supporting care-experienced students in UK higher education

...educational and financial hurdles, targeted university support can unlock their potential. This article explores the challenges care leavers face and how they can be helped to succeed. ...Find out more about The Open University's Health and Social Care courses and qualifications. UK literature consistently shows that care-experienced young people face lower educational...
Why there's still faith in the Spanish education system
Education & Development

Why there's still faith in the Spanish education system

...education in the country forever. Liz Green explains...Normally, with the summer officially over and Spain waking up from its self-induced prolonged siesta, protected from anything remotely political, the first notable event is “la vuelta al cole”: millions of youngsters returning to school, or for some at the age of three, suffering their first experience of...
An introduction to the fascinating work and career options open to people with a social psychology qualification
Health, Sports & Psychology

An introduction to the fascinating work and career options open to people with a social psychology qualification

Where can social psychology take you? Here four psychologists tell us about their career journey and other work options open to people studying social psychology...Transcript Interested? To find out more about the OU’s BSC (Honours) Social Psychology and how to apply, visit our qualifications site or try our OpenLearn Social Psychology and Politics Course
Pineapples and Pashto: building intercultural competence through Peace Education
Education & Development

Pineapples and Pashto: building intercultural competence through Peace Education

...Open University's Open degree. What is Peace Education? In Peace at the Heart, a recent report on education in British schools commissioned by Quakers in Britain, David Gee and co-authors explain that: Peace Education is a critical approach to personal and social development rooted in a commitment to ‘peace’: not only the absence of violence but also the presence of...
Supporting social work learners: practice educator refresher (England)
Health, Sports & Psychology

Supporting social work learners: practice educator refresher (England)

...Education (EdD) thesis. The Open University. Available at: https://doi.org/ 10.21954/ ou.ro.0001306a (Accessed: 16 January 2025). Ferguson, G. (2022) The Importance of Workplace Learning for Social Workers, IRISS, Scotland. Available at: https://www.iriss.org.uk/ resources/ insights/ importance-workplace-learning-social-workers(Accessed: 16 January 2025). Ferguson, G. and...
We learn, together: exploring familial learning in home education
Education & Development

We learn, together: exploring familial learning in home education

...resources that are most valued by home-educating families? Footnotes: [1] Statements: Children should have choices when it comes to the spaces in which they learn. Adults should have choices when it comes to the spaces in which their children learn. Replicating your own education. Preparing children for Higher Education (University). Preparing children to play an active...
Crafting a new international partnership for racial equity in Higher Education
Education & Development

Crafting a new international partnership for racial equity in Higher Education

...Open and Distance Learning (ODL)-based higher education is being free of baggage, by virtue of its young age, that many old universities carry from colonial history. It is therefore arguably well equipped to approach current debates like decolonising curricula with fresh eyes and a clearer conscience. How the partnership can benefit from this background was already given...
Why school-based sex education isn’t inclusive enough
Health, Sports & Psychology

Why school-based sex education isn’t inclusive enough

...education in schools remains a widely debated and contentious subject. Increasingly, attention is being drawn to the ‘invisibility’ of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) health issues and the need for more inclusive sex education in schools in Great Britain. So what is the evidence behind these calls? [School children] Only 13% of pupils have learnt about...