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Reading for pleasure: just window dressing?
Education & Development

Reading for pleasure: just window dressing?

...World Book Day, and competitions to read books for the school. There are also class awards (for example Reader of the Week), and inter-class competitions such as the number of books reviewed each month. In one school I know the children’s home-reading records are turned into class percentages each week and the winning class, announced in assembly, is rewarded with extra...
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Why sportspeople convicted of violence against women forfeit their right to be 'stars'
Society, Politics & Law

Why sportspeople convicted of violence against women forfeit their right to be 'stars'

...world stage where they continue to hold power and be glorified? Does this merely serve to trivialise the seriousness of domestic abuse and violence against women. When we see the Twitter jokes about Mayweather and DV during such events it’s clear that we still have a long way to go for the public to recognise the seriousness of domestic violence. Journalist Lucy Hunter...
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Supporting parents through pregnancy and birth distress
Health, Sports & Psychology

Supporting parents through pregnancy and birth distress

...World Psychiatry, 19(3), pp. 313–327. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1002/wps.20769 (Accessed 12 June 2026). Leach, P. (Ed.) (2018) Transforming infant wellbeing: Research, policy and practice for the first 1001 critical days. Routledge. Available at: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315452890 (Accessed: 12 June 2026). Office for Health Improvement and Disparities (2022)...
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Why the bands played on: Live music in the shadow of the Paris attacks
History & The Arts

Why the bands played on: Live music in the shadow of the Paris attacks

...World music expo Womex, likewise, has encountered visa issues and associated difficulties regarding the mobility of artists. Travel has been intrinsic to the practice and consumption of popular music – all music, in fact – since at least the 19th century. From Jenny Lind’s Barnum sponsored American tour to the festival circuit today, touring is how musicians build...
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A journey through two Englands
History & The Arts

A journey through two Englands

...world perhaps more painful than it need be, and certainly more sinful. Yet there were the gray steeples too, and the churchyards, with their grassy mounds and venerable headstones, sleeping in the sunlight; there were broad fields and homesteads, and fine old woods covering a rising ground, or stretching far by the roadside, allowing only peeps at the park and mansion...
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Will we ever be able to trust an AI sports coach?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Will we ever be able to trust an AI sports coach?

...world examples’, Appinventiv. Available at: https://appinventiv.com/blog/ai-in-sports/. Bridgeman, J. and Giraldez-Hayes, A. (2024) ‘Using artificial intelligence-enhanced video feedback for reflective practice in coach development: benefits and potential drawbacks’, Coaching: An International Journal of Theory, Research and Practice, 17(1), pp. 32–49. Couzens, A....
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Youth justice in the UK: children, young people and crime Badge icon
Education & Development

Youth justice in the UK: children, young people and crime

...world. As you may also have guessed, there is some variation within the UK, with Scotland opting to raise the age from 8 to 12 in 2019 (you will learn more about this in Session 3). In 2007 the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child declared that an age of criminal responsibility below 12 is ‘not acceptable’. How does this move to raise the age to 12...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Human rights and law
Society, Politics & Law

Human rights and law

...world. Reference to a work on international human rights treaties would reveal over fifty different treaties, conventions and protocols (instruments which effect an amendment to a treaty or convention). Box 1: The verdict on public international law As this course (and the other W100 courses available on OpenLearn: Europe and the law, Judges and the law, Making and using...
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Level 1: Introductory 20 hrs