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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...
Sex stats for the British population
Health, Sports & Psychology

Sex stats for the British population

...by Natsal-4, a survey collected from thousands of adults living all over Britain...Find out more about The Open University’s statistics qualifications. Please check back in the autumn of 2026, when the updated interactive with the findings from Natsal-4 will be published. If you want to learn more about the research behind this interactive, check out www.natsal.ac.uk...
Primary education: listening and observing Badge icon
Education & Development

Primary education: listening and observing

...Adults and lifelong learning in the primary school: Introduction - You have nearly completed this course. Hopefully this final session will be useful to your thinking and your planning to work or volunteer in a primary school. In primary schools, we expect children to be learning and developing. What about the adults in school? How are they learning and developing as...
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...
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...
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 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...
About the stroop test
Education & Development

About the stroop test

...adults, many things that we do, we do automatically, almost without thinking. We look in the correct direction before crossing the road; we travel to work without consciously making decisions about the route. Being able to do these things automatically frees up our brain to work on other, more important issues. However, on some occasions, being able to prevent ourselves...