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Vitality Netball World Cup 2023 – what’s it all about and who is going to win?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Vitality Netball World Cup 2023 – what’s it all about and who is going to win?

...Open University's Sport and Fitness courses and qualifications. The Vitality Netball World Cup will be held in Cape Town, South Africa, from 28th July to 6th August 2023 and it will be the first time it has been held in Africa. This will be the 16th World Cup tournament, although prior to 2015 it was called the World Netball Championships. The first tournament was held in...
Neurodiversity: What is it and what does it look like across races?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Neurodiversity: What is it and what does it look like across races?

...Open University's Psychology courses and qualifications What is neurodiversity? Neurodiversity is the diversity of human minds and the fact that brains and neurocognition vary among all individuals. All these variations are ‘normal’ and ‘valuable’ with neurodiversity being the concept that neurological differences are to be recognised and respected as any other...
How can we improve teaching about Islam?
Education & Development

How can we improve teaching about Islam?

...open to seeing these connections, even if it might require overcoming their own preconceptions about Islam. For example, when I teach my class on medieval architecture, students are surprised to learn that the two oldest continuously run universities in the world are in North Africa (in Fez – a city in Morocco – and Cairo). Indeed, it is not easy to disentangle...
Uncovering Britain’s Lost Black Sporting Heroes
Health, Sports & Psychology

Uncovering Britain’s Lost Black Sporting Heroes

...opened up some unlikely opportunities, it by no means protected him from the racist realities of the day. [Jimmy Peters, pictured in his England shirt and cap.] Jimmy Peters, pictured in his England shirt and cap Richmond’s biographer, Luke Williams, rightly observes that it is ‘a staggering collective omission by sports and social historians that the story of Bill...
What is shareholder activism?
Money & Business

What is shareholder activism?

...Open University module B859 Financial strategy: valuation, governance and ethics, which is part of the MSc in Finance qualification. References European Corporate Governance Institution http://www.ecgi.org/activism Gillian, S., and Starks, L. T., 2007, The Evolution of Shareholder Activism in the United States. Journal of Applied Corporate Finance, 19(1), 55–7,...
Robert Burns: a man of his times for today
History & The Arts

Robert Burns: a man of his times for today

...Open University’s History qualifications. At this time of year, people across the globe will attend Burns suppers. They’ll dine heartily on a meal the centrepiece of which will be haggis, enjoy refreshments which will often include a glass or more of whisky, and listen to several of Robert Burns’s songs, speeches and, if they’re lucky, a spirited performance of...
Are you a socially intelligent educational leader?
Education & Development

Are you a socially intelligent educational leader?

...Intelligence’ in Salovey, P. and Sluyter, D. J. (eds.) Emotional development and emotional intelligence, New York, Basic Books, pp. 3-31. Stavrou Theodotou, S. (2020) Perceptions of the way leaders’ emotional intelligence influences teamworking and shared vision. EdD thesis The Open University. Available at: https://oro.open.ac.uk/70465/ (Accessed: 10 July 2024)....
The science of genetics
Nature & Environment

The science of genetics

...open up the possibility of redirecting our future evolution. The science of genetics The study of genes began in 1900 when it was shown that genes govern inheritance in many different creatures. In 1907 it was shown that the same patterns of inheritance could account for the transmission of eye colour in humans. However, not until 1953 was the structure of DNA deduced by...