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Pathways To Success in Higher Education
Education & Development

Pathways To Success in Higher Education

...Care The Health and Social Care Pathway looks at how we provide help and care for those in need or vulnerable. Such work offers a unique sense of fulfilment. The current focus in frontline health and social care is on giving service-users more independence, choice and control. These developments mean there’s greater demand for well-trained people across a range of...
‘Making Food Allergies Your Business’ Podcast Series on safer dining
Health, Sports & Psychology

‘Making Food Allergies Your Business’ Podcast Series on safer dining

...adults. With 1 in 20 adults in the UK with a confirmed food allergy (Food Standards Agency 2024), we hear from the food allergy community what they would like businesses to do to create more inclusive and safer dining experiences. [Icon of hands shaking together and the text 'Food for Everyone', advocating for allergy-inclusive discussions.] My name is Claire McGuigan and...
Supporting women musicians in the workplace
History & The Arts

Supporting women musicians in the workplace

...caring responsibilities – disproportionately affected. By thinking about how you can foster inclusive practices, you can help to change this. Every year, thousands of women leave the workplace. Losing these women is bad for them, bad for the industry, and bad for the economy. Many of these women could be supported to stay, if offered appropriate flexibility and...
Death and medicine: postponement and promise
Health, Sports & Psychology

Death and medicine: postponement and promise

...care provides the context of the experiences associated with the end of life. This OpenLearn course provides a sample of level 2 study in Health & Social Care. If you find this course interesting, take a look at the Open University course K220 Death, Dying and Bereavement. Alternatively, you can explore the related OpenLearn course, An introduction to death, dying and...
Supporting young researchers with 'MyShout!'
Education & Development

Supporting young researchers with 'MyShout!'

...adult, and learn how to create, design and carry out their own social research into a ­­topic that interests them. Each stage begins and ends with a short quiz so young researchers can keep track of what they have learned. There are a variety of different activities which end with the young researcher deciding how they want to apply what they have learned to their own...
Engaging with children and young people
Money & Business

Engaging with children and young people

...caring adult is not the parents, it could be a granny, a grandpa, an aunt, uncle, youth worker, nursery worker, teacher, health visitor, social worker, policeman, anyone involved with the child who can offer a sense of nurture that increases that child's sense of stability and security. The second resilience factor identified is having a sense of being able to overcome...
Supporting learners to become agents for sustainability
Education & Development

Supporting learners to become agents for sustainability

...Care, People Care & Fair Share.]Figure 1 The Permaculture FlowerShow descriptionIn the centre of the image are three core principles: care for Earth, care for people and fair share. The second layer of the 'flower' is seven categories: land and nature stewardship, built environment, tools and technology, culture and education, health and spiritual wellbeing, finance and...
Children and happiness
Education & Development

Children and happiness

...adults. Even though we might all like to know the key to happiness, there is actually relatively little psychological research on this topic. In the past psychologists have tended to focus on how disorders involving negative mood can be prevented rather than how happiness can be achieved. However, more recently psychologists, notably Professor Martin Seligman, have...