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Should we educate prisoners?
Society, Politics & Law

Should we educate prisoners?

...Skills Service) contracts for prison education, only 100 prisoners participated in a full Level 3 course (equivalent to ‘A’ level) in 2014/15, with none participating at Level 4 which is equivalent to first-year undergraduate or above (MoJ, Unlocking Potential, 2016). Recognition of the importance of education in prisons appears to have been lost (Coates, 2016)....
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Leadership and followership Badge icon
Education & Development

Leadership and followership

...skills that you've learned through your life and through your work and through your studies to help you make sense of all the information that you've got in front of you. And outside of academia, that's often imperfect information. You don't have the whole picture to enable you to do a perfect case study. You just have to do the best you can do with what you've got and...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Supporting learners to become agents for sustainability
Education & Development

Supporting learners to become agents for sustainability

...skills needed to live sustainably in the world...The pedagogies were: Learning through compassion Traditional wisdom as a sustainable pedagogy Participants discussed their understanding of compassion, and why compassion may be a useful idea for learning and thinking sustainably. Compassion is: [A word cloud of keywords and phrases from participants discussing their...
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Diverse Perspectives on Mental Health
Health, Sports & Psychology

Diverse Perspectives on Mental Health

...studies were selected, and how they fit in with the aims of the course. He also describes how he became involved in the field of mental health education. This material forms part of The Open University course K225 Diverse perspectives on mental health... Diverse Perspectives on Mental Health A short introduction to this album. Mental Health on Orkney Service users and...
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Audio 1 hr 55 mins
Do we really listen to children and young people?
Education & Development

Do we really listen to children and young people?

...skills, abilities and confidence in taking the initiative. Participation can also be offered by adults as providing a learning opportunity or a means to enhance confidence. These different ways of promoting participation are couched within an ‘adult knows best approach’ which is somewhat at odds with democratic ideas around participation. [Group of junior school...
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Dangoor Education
Science, Maths & Technology

Dangoor Education

...studied engineering at the University of London before setting up successful businesses in Iraq. In order to give others the gift of education, something the Dangoor family believe enabled them to start a new life in Britain, the Foundation has made supporting education a focus of their work. In 2004, the Foundation created the Dangoor Scholarships which offered £1,000...
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Introducing philosophy
History & The Arts

Introducing philosophy

...skill, and you should prepare for and sit the exam, even if you are not studying the course for credit...Introducing philosophy: 4 Conclusion - I hope this taster pack has given you a sense of what philosophy is like and whetted your appetite for A211. If you would like to do more preparation, I suggest you read Nigel Warburton's book Philosophy: The Basics (Routledge)....
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Airbus and Brexit: What do you need to know?
Money & Business

Airbus and Brexit: What do you need to know?

...skilled people to make them. These skills do not come cheap – and such a factory requires major investment. They really are the jewel in the crown for any airframe company and the French and German parts of Airbus have been interested in creating this capability locally. Not only this, but many of the parts in the state-of-the-art A350 wings are produced in Spain where...
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