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Victory through resilience: how England Vitality Roses adapted to setbacks
Health, Sports & Psychology

Victory through resilience: how England Vitality Roses adapted to setbacks

...systems (Chemaly, 2024). A key factor in resilience can be having caring and supportive relationships within and outside the family that offer encouragement and reassurance – this can be found in a sporting team environment. Whilst a resilient player may use mistakes as an opportunity to learn, it is equally particularly important to receive this support when mistakes...
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How to provide a trauma-informed police response to victims of rape and serious sexual offences
Society, Politics & Law

How to provide a trauma-informed police response to victims of rape and serious sexual offences

...system is in place to flag crimes where officers have had a rape case, this is not necessarily the support required by the officer. Further, annual psychological assessments are mandatory, but are frequently not attended. Heavy workloads are inhibitors to sharing learning from the cases. However, providing opportunities for feedback from the frontline office to the main...
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A National Health Service or an International Health Service?: South Asian geriatricians
Society, Politics & Law

A National Health Service or an International Health Service?: South Asian geriatricians

...system and in part to government and management pressure to improve bed occupancy figures. Geriatric medicine began to offer a career trajectory and eventually became what it is today, the second largest specialty with about 1,514 specialists. The 'Cinderella specialty' status gave room for overseas trained doctors who found their own opportunities for career growth to...
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Article 10 mins
Unmasking inequalities: what COVID-19 revealed about the degree awarding gap at The Open University
Digital & Computing

Unmasking inequalities: what COVID-19 revealed about the degree awarding gap at The Open University

...systemic issue rather than isolated occurrences. But the reasons behind these gaps cannot be reduced to academic ability. Through our focus groups, we explored the broader structural and institutional challenges that shaped students’ ability to succeed – especially during the pandemic. Structural barriers were a major theme. Participants identified economic...
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English in the world today
Languages

English in the world today

...systems of speech that the human race has developed throughout its history, risen to such a position of prominence? Figure 2: The use of English around the world The emergence of English as a global language is not the end of the story, though. The fact that English is now established as an important linguistic force in countless communities around the world does not mean...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Drug development process: combating pain
Science, Maths & Technology

Drug development process: combating pain

...system (CNS) associated conditions, is the need to achieve penetration of the blood–brain barrier, a process that has exacting physico-chemical requirements. A more detailed study would address these issues and illustrate the methods not only for discovering new active compounds, but also optimising these to ensure that they can perform effectively and safely as drugs...
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Level 3: Advanced 2 hrs
Approaching plays
History & The Arts

Approaching plays

...thinking of drama in a more general sense, we might be avid watchers of TV soaps or films. But, as a student of literature, you are sitting at home with a book open in front of you. It contains the text of a play. What, then, are you to make of the words on the page before you? If the script you were examining was intended for a film or a TV play it would look different...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
Introducing mammals
Nature & Environment

Introducing mammals

...think about all the mammals that you have encountered, as well as those you’ve seen in photos and TV programmes, it is apparent that mammals are very diverse in geographical range, in size, in form and in function. They have also been influenced by the presence of humans (another mammal) more than any other animal group. The study of mammals displays their rich...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs