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How to manage the digital-related stress of technology
Health, Sports & Psychology

How to manage the digital-related stress of technology

...family, watching television, and eating; dividing our attention between our phones and our real life experiences. However, research has shown that being more mindful and generally being more present is good for our wellbeing. So set yourself some ground rules that will allow you to better live in the moment. For example, rules such as no phones at the dinner table,...
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Article 10 mins
Engaging with our environment: what are the benefits?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Engaging with our environment: what are the benefits?

...family-member-with-dementia/ https://www.alzheimers.org.uk/dementia-together-magazine/feb-mar-2019/exploring-nature-people-dementia-try-out-nature-packs? Dementia and art: https://baringfoundation.org.uk/blog-post/getting-creative-with-dementia/ OU’s EEES project to encourage engagement in outdoors activities and careers “Walking the Walk: Co-producing approaches to...
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Article 10 hrs 34 mins
FabLab Nepal: creative learning as a way towards equality
Science, Maths & Technology

FabLab Nepal: creative learning as a way towards equality

...families and girls. [Map of the locations] One of the key emphases of the programme was in fact on encouraging gender equality in the STEAM sector of Nepal by allocating more than half of the available seats to female students, who still face an opportunity deficit in Nepal as they are more likely to be sent to CG schools than boys. [Photo of some students working...
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Article 5 mins
Time management and study
Health, Sports & Psychology

Time management and study

...family. Time saving life hacks, such as meal prepping, can feel daunting at first but it doesn’t have to be difficult. You can make double the dinner the night before and have leftovers for lunch. Here’s some recipes for batch cooking inspiration, many of which are freezer friendly. You could also set an hour aside every weekend to meal prep. Tasty provide ‘the only...
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Environmental management and organisations
Nature & Environment

Environmental management and organisations

...history where, for the first time, humans are dominant in shaping Earth processes and systems, giving rise to a shift in thinking about human–environment relationships. In 2011, The Economist noted this debate on its front cover. The Economist also produced this short video of an interview with the ecologist Erle Ellis where he gives his ideas and examples about the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
Play, learning and the brain
Education & Development

Play, learning and the brain

...Families, 2007) Next, click on the link below for the second article ‘What Is “Brain-Based Learning”?’, which looks in a little more detail at brain research and links this to learning and teaching. It suggests ways in which educators could enhance their practice by drawing on this new information. Look particularly at the Twelve Design Principles and at the ways...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
Attachment in the early years
Education & Development

Attachment in the early years

...families up over several years, if not decades. As was the case in our most recent study. John Oates Now attachment is generally seen as a really important outcome of the very earliest months of life. Would you say that research is still supporting that idea? Elizabeth Meins Yes, on the whole, and actually I think attachment as an outcome variable itself is very...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Corporate fraud and criminal behaviour
Money & Business

Corporate fraud and criminal behaviour

...family friend, Walid Choucair, a very experienced day trader of financial securities. Choucair was able to make a profit of approximately £1.4 million with the information he gained from Abdel-Malek. In 2019, a jury at Southwark Crown Court decided that Abdel-Malek and Choucair were both guilty of insider dealing under section 52 of the CJA 1993 and the judge sentenced...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs