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The language used during end of life care matters
Health, Sports & Psychology

The language used during end of life care matters

...Open University, Dr Erica Borgstrom...[Grandma's hands] A male born in 2014 to 2016 has a 21% chance, and a female a 32% chance, of surviving to at least age 90 “She’s poorly” – that’s a phrase I hear a lot in my research about palliative and end of life care. But what does that mean? It took me a while in my fieldwork in hospitals, hospices and care homes in...
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SEND crisis: overdiagnosis - fact or fiction?
Education & Development

SEND crisis: overdiagnosis - fact or fiction?

...open support and understanding leading to improved grades and improved self-worth. Yet diagnosis alone is not enough, as we need to also ensure that diagnosis is empowering and not accompanied by stigma or incorrect assumptions. Only then can we move beyond the myths and ensure all children can thrive in their education. Reference Becker, H. S. (1963). Outsiders: Studies...
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Do children have agency as authors?
Education & Development

Do children have agency as authors?

...Open University explores whether children are given enough autonomy when it comes to writing...Over the last three months the Craft of Writing team, (Debra Myhill and I, Becky Swain, Becky Coles and Sara Venner) have been recruiting schools to this new project. Funded by EEF and the RSA, it’s a partnership study between the OU, the University of Exeter and Arvon and a...
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Neurodivergence and birth trauma
Health, Sports & Psychology

Neurodivergence and birth trauma

...A., Chang, Z., Larsson, H., Mataix-Cols, D. and Fernández de la Cruz, L. (2019) ‘Association of caesarean delivery with risk of neurodevelopmental and psychiatric disorders in the offspring: a systematic review and meta-analysis’, JAMA Network Open, 2(8), e1910236. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2019.10236 (Accessed: 14 March 2025)....
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Ethics Bites
History & The Arts

Ethics Bites

...Open University philosopher and best-selling author, Nigel Warburton, puts the questions, rooting every subject in everyday dilemmas about how we should live. Many eminent academics have participated in this fourteen-part series such as a star trio of American-based professors, Michael Sandel, Thomas Scanlon and Peter Singer... Ethics Bites A short introduction to this...
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Current conversations about ageing
Health, Sports & Psychology

Current conversations about ageing

...Open University have come together in three podcasts to share their insights on questions that sit underneath a lot of policy and headlines, especially in the developed world, but don't often get asked directly. What does it actually mean to grow older in a world that keeps changing around you, the devices you're expected to use, the home you may or may not get to stay...
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Colour fastness
Money & Business

Colour fastness

...course being a t shirt it will be exposed to the sun. How is the fabric checked to make sure it is suitable for life as a t shirt? It undergoes standard test methods which replicate an average type of rubbing, washing, perspiration and sun exposure to give the dyer and the retailer an idea that it will be suitable. These tests are internationally accepted and approved...
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Star Wars: Myth and fairy tale
History & The Arts

Star Wars: Myth and fairy tale

...Obi-Wan Kenobi, who answers him, is my favourite character: a fairy godfather if ever I saw one. ‘These are not the droids you’re looking for’, he says, altering reality in a later scene. The experience of redemptive love, to which his counsel eventually leads Luke, is a yet more impressive aspect of his gift. Try your hand at writing with these free courses...
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