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How to help your child become a future Olympian
Health, Sports & Psychology

How to help your child become a future Olympian

...working to the Olympics yourself, or even have to try and win the parents’ race on Sports Day, just find something that you like. [Lady and child doing yoga together] If you’ve been walking laps of the local park in lockdown take that a step further and join a walking sports team - there’s walking rugby, football, netball and lots more. Have a look at what’s...
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Year of the Tiger: Chinese New Year
Languages

Year of the Tiger: Chinese New Year

...work. Many Chinese children wear tiger-headed embroidered shoes for good luck. Each Chinese Lunar year is associated with an animal sign according to a 12-year-cycle. Babies born between 1 February 2022 and 22 January 2023 will be given the animal sign ‘Tiger’. Recent and upcoming years of the Tiger are 1938, 1950, 1962, 1974, 1986, 1998, 2010 and 2022. As the tiger...
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A brief introduction to the Chinese education system
Education & Development

A brief introduction to the Chinese education system

...working at their desks in a Chinese school] Structure of the Chinese education system In China, education is divided into three categories: basic education, higher education, and adult education. By law, each child must have nine years of compulsory education from primary school (six years) to junior secondary education (three years). Basic education Basic education in...
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DNA Profiling
Science, Maths & Technology

DNA Profiling

...works and how it can be used to catch a killer...When a murder has occurred, forensic science can be essential for proving the identity of both victim and killer. Some killers have wrongly assumed that the absence of a complete body, or the removal of distinguishing features such as fingerprints, would prevent the identification of a victim. The combination of different...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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The Life of Saint Patrick
History & The Arts

The Life of Saint Patrick

...work on the lives of the saints tells the story of Ireland's patron saint...[Saint Patrick] Saint Patrick On the various accounts of Saint Patrick's life "The Irish have many lives of their great apostle, whereof the two principal are, that compiled by Jocelin, a Cistercian monk, in the twelfth century, who quotes four lives written by disciples of the saint; and that by...
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