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The awarding gap at The Open University
Education & Development

The awarding gap at The Open University

...work and caring responsibilities. Students can take up to sixteen years to complete their degree given the modular based study routes offered by the OU. The key aim is to `remove all inequalities in access and outcomes for students from underrepresented and disadvantaged backgrounds´The OU is committed to reducing the gap and is guided by the principles set out within...
Psychological profiling
Health, Sports & Psychology

Psychological profiling

...work with them, to help them to change whatever psychological deficit it is that brought them there in the first place." Given Paul's high profile it seems unbelievable that he hasn't spent his entire life working in this field, yet he points out that "I came to psychology probably later than most people start their academic careers. I had a wife, I had two children, I...
Mashing up the Union Jack
Society, Politics & Law

Mashing up the Union Jack

...work, not least because colleagues and I have written about civic cultures and the modalities of place-making, and I also wrote about the ways in which symbols of Afro-Caribbean, South American and British identities can speak of notional combined experiences often as digital and creative citizens. In a published conversation I had with Gil prior to the Tate Exchange...
Intimate not Intimidated: It's Time to Talk about Sex and Disability
Health, Sports & Psychology

Intimate not Intimidated: It's Time to Talk about Sex and Disability

...work harder for it. You know, it’s one of them ain’t it? It’s not all coming for free, you’ve got to work for it. TOM I think what helps us [unclear 0:04:09] our PAs having a sense of humour. CHARLOTTE Especially when we call them in and like I’m still sitting on your face and you’re suffocating and… TOM I think that accidental innuendos from PAs, make us...
First steps towards embedding sustainability in learning design
Education & Development

First steps towards embedding sustainability in learning design

...Works towards building an inclusive, sustainable and resilient future for people and the planet. Harmonises the three core elements of environmental protection, social inclusion and economic growth. These elements are interconnected and all are crucial for the well-being of individuals, societies and economies. The 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were adopted by...
Yellow Fever: An OpenLearn reading list
Health, Sports & Psychology

Yellow Fever: An OpenLearn reading list

...working in Angostura (later Ciudad Bolivar), Venezuela, advanced a similar hypothesis several years later. Nott was a keen observer and set forth clearly his views that yellow fever was what we would call today a disease with a wide spectrum of clinical manifestations, ranging from mild illness in many cases, sometimes with no or very low fever, to cases with a...
Support for you and your mental health
Health, Sports & Psychology

Support for you and your mental health

...worked with the World Health Organisation to talk about overcoming the "black dog of depression". Actor David Harewood spoke in the recent Open University and BBC collaborative documentary, Psychosis and Me, about his experience of diagnosis and treatment for Psychosis. Trisha Goddard, Jim Brown and Stephen Fry examine feelings of fear and sadness affecting their everyday...
Simple coding
Digital & Computing

Simple coding

...work, and global commerce and finance are impossible without software that control the stocks, carry out payments, find the best transport route, etc. Coding (or programming) is the construction of software. Coding involves writing a ‘recipe’, which in computing is called an algorithm, in a so called programming language that a computer can understand. When the...
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