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Five tips for making friends at university
Education & Development

Five tips for making friends at university

...open up new opportunities and meet new people. Ask questions When meeting new people, the hardest step can be knowing what to talk about. Remember that the person you’re talking to may well be feeling nervous, and finding out about them can set you both at ease. Ask about them – and before you know it, they’ll be asking about you too. Smile If we feel anxious in a...
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Video 5 mins
Living with visual Impairment
Health, Sports & Psychology

Living with visual Impairment

...Open University's Pre-registration nursing programme... Living with visual Impairment A short introduction to this album. Visual Impairment Jackie's Experience Of acute transitory visual impairment as a result of MS, including her experience of difficulties with lighting and contrast. Emotional Impact Jackie talks about the emotional impact of losing her sight Nurse...
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Audio 27 mins
Unlikely Leaders
Money & Business

Unlikely Leaders

...Open University experts nominate their own ‘Unlikely Leader,’ from Russell Brand to Olympic boxer Nicola Adams, challenging our assumptions about the meaning of Leadership and encouraging us to think differently about just what makes a ‘great leader’. As conventional leaders continue to let us down, the ‘Unlikely Leaders’ might just be our salvation... Russell...
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Video 58 mins
Handel: A Classical Icon
History & The Arts

Handel: A Classical Icon

...Open University Professor Donald Burrows introduces one of the most famous composers of the eighteenth century. Devised for non-musicians and beginners, the 5 video and 5 audio tracks in this album explore the music that made Handel famous. His operas are classics of the Baroque style, his oratorios are the basis of English choral tradition, his music still played today...
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Video 54 mins
Five things you might like to know about Recovery Colleges
Health, Sports & Psychology

Five things you might like to know about Recovery Colleges

...courses and not all of those participating in those courses will have a psychiatric diagnosis. The emphasis within the college is on strengths rather than problems. Each person develops an individual learning plan which guides their journey through their studies. The aim is to offer subjects that would not be available in the local further education colleges and could...
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Goal-setting for a better world: Millennium Development Goals and Post-2015 Development Agenda
Society, Politics & Law

Goal-setting for a better world: Millennium Development Goals and Post-2015 Development Agenda

...Opening talks on Thursday 1 November 2012 with the United Nations High Level Panel - Indonesian President Yudhoyono, British Prime Minister David Cameron and Liberian President Johnson Sirleaf. A recent book by interdisciplinary, multi-institution research collaboration from London International Development Centre (entitled Thinking beyond sectors for sustainable...
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Who will lead Britain out of the European Union
Society, Politics & Law

Who will lead Britain out of the European Union

...open to campaigners. They could focus on mobilising decided eurosceptics or seek to convince undecided people to vote for a Brexit. Farage is the poster-boy of the eurosceptic movement in the UK (and beyond). He speaks truth to power, says it like it is and all the rest. As a communicator and as a personality, he is unsurpassed on either side of the Brexit debate....
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Referendum Rhetoric: keeping a-hold of nurse or leaping into the dark?
Society, Politics & Law

Referendum Rhetoric: keeping a-hold of nurse or leaping into the dark?

...Open University, discusses the rhetoric of the EU Referendum. ...[UK and EU flags overlaid] Boris Johnson tells us in his book, The Churchill Factor, that Winston Churchill ‘wrote an article called “A United States of Europe”; indeed, he is credited with coining the phrase’. Well, yes, Churchill did write about this in the News of the World in 1938 and he is...
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