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A guide to developing trust with home-educating parents
Education & Development

A guide to developing trust with home-educating parents

...research into parental experiences of deregistering children from school to enter into home education, parents described how they lost trust in the local authority’s ability to support their children due to a lack of response to their children’s needs when they were in school. This ultimately led them to home education. They reflected on how the loss of trust...
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How large is the UK alternative finance sector?
Money & Business

How large is the UK alternative finance sector?

...research estimates the size of non-mainstream financial activity at over three billion pounds - and although growth is starting to slow, the alternative is becoming mainstream...The UK online alternative finance sector grew 84% in 2015, facilitating £3.2 billion in investments, loans and donations, according to a new report published today [17th February 2016]. This is a...
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Migrant businesswomen and the census
Society, Politics & Law

Migrant businesswomen and the census

...Census: migration, gender, and business, and shows how art-based approaches such as storytelling can be used to communicate quantitative Census data. Project team: Dr Carry van Lieshout (The Open University), Gunjan Sondhi (The Open University). Partners: ReWomen (Women of Management and Enterprise Network), CREME (Centre for Research in Ethnic Minority Entrepreneurship)...
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The European Union and the impact on mixed nationality relationships in northern Finland
Society, Politics & Law

The European Union and the impact on mixed nationality relationships in northern Finland

...economy of a Brexit. Journal of European Public Policy 23(9):1302-1310. Ottaviano, G., J. Pessoa, T. Sampson and J. Van Reenen (2014) ‘The Costs and Benefits of Leaving the EU’, Centre for Economic Performance Policy Analysis. Vertovec, S. (2011). Conceiving and researching transnationalism. Ethnic and Racial Studies 22 (2) 1999:447-467. Read more articles like this...
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Reading and motivation: focusing on disengaged readers
Education & Development

Reading and motivation: focusing on disengaged readers

...Research, Critique. Rev. edn. London: Rowman and Littlefield. Cole, A. Brown, A., Clark, C. and Picton, I. (2022) Children and young people’s reading engagement in 2022: Continuing insight into the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on reading, London, National Literacy Trust. Cremin, T. and Coles, B. (2022) Children’s Reading Choices: What are children choosing to read...
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Rules, rights and justice: an introduction to law
Society, Politics & Law

Rules, rights and justice: an introduction to law

...and its shortcomings. Adoption and donor tracing Adoption lawyers and researchers of assisted conception discuss the rights of artificially-conceived and adopted children and their parents. Freedom of speech A current affairs journalist, a human rights lawyer and an academic debate issues around freedom of speech and to what extent the law should intervene to restrict it....
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Teaching assistants: support in action
Education & Development

Teaching assistants: support in action

...children’s learning, but then life often moves faster than the supply of research evidence. As we have indicated, volunteers are often invited into schools to assist teachers, and teaching assistants are employed without necessarily having any specific training (although, increasingly, in-service training is being made available). However, as we have suggested,...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Critically exploring psychology
Health, Sports & Psychology

Critically exploring psychology

...research. This OpenLearn course is an adapted extract from the Open University course D810 Critically exploring psychology 1 and D811 Critically Exploring Psychology 2...This free course introduces you to critical thinking as a tool for psychology. As you work your way through the course you will learn what critical thinking is, and why it is important to use in the study...
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Level 3: Advanced 3 hrs