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Remembering Peter and John
Society, Politics & Law

Remembering Peter and John

...work which included many years at Teesside Polytechnic, later University. He joined the Open University in 1970, before the first cohort of students arrived in 1971 and taught there until 2015. Tom Kinneavy, an OU colleague and an ex-miner from Barnsley, recalled how Peter and he would go to the pub after tutorials: Some of our students would often come along for what...
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Katherine Johnson: NASA mathematician and much-needed role model
Science, Maths & Technology

Katherine Johnson: NASA mathematician and much-needed role model

...worked for NASA. But on paper neither of those facts would make her stand out from the crowd. Add a few more facts – she was a woman, she was black and working in the US in the 1950s to early 1960s – and the scale of her success becomes more apparent. The film [Hidden Figures] shed slight on the status of black people in society and the role of women in the...
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Feeling Stuck in your Job or Career? The ACT Matrix may be the Tool you Need
Health, Sports & Psychology

Feeling Stuck in your Job or Career? The ACT Matrix may be the Tool you Need

...work goals but are still unfulfilled. You are stuck: the normal way of doing your job isn’t working anymore, or you cannot get that next promotion. These situations then often lead to feelings of worry, stress and anxiety, and even hopelessness and frustration, leaving us unable to move forward. These difficult feelings can then start to drive behaviour, including...
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...work with organisations of all shapes and sizes, all around the world, to bring you free educational resources. Here's just a few of our brilliant partners who help support millions of people take their first step into learning..._Find out more about The Open University's Open degree. _ [This is the logo for Dangoor] The provision of accessible education for all is...
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Introduction to business agility
Money & Business

Introduction to business agility

...working and digital transformation collection, made possible by the Higher Educational Funding Council for Wales. [HEFCW logo]...Introduction to business agility: Introduction: why improve ways of working? - With the latest technology-led revolution, we have gone from the Age of Oil and Mass Production, where work was mostly repetitive and knowable, to the Age of Digital,...
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Level 1: Introductory 2 hrs
Volunteering in the education sector
Education & Development

Volunteering in the education sector

...work in education, there are still ways for you to volunteer your skills and knowledge beyond your day job. Below, be inspired by three colleagues who are contributing to education in their communities. Kerrie - School governor and Chair of the PTA [Kerrie] “My volunteering is an investment in my community and an opportunity to model the values I want my children to...
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Professional relationships with young people
Health, Sports & Psychology

Professional relationships with young people

...working practices which can inform work with young people...In some people's eyes the development of relationships is a good end in itself, as it is in relationships that we express our humanity. Young people with few good-quality relationships in their lives often find that entering into informal relationships with adults who respect, accept, like and really listen to...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Citational politics
Education & Development

Citational politics

...work of those who have inspired us...‘Citation is [...] memory. Citation is how we acknowledge our debt to those who came before; those who helped us find our way when the way was obscured because we deviated from the paths we were told to follow’ (Ahmed, 2017, pp. 15–16). One of the defining features of academic writing is the practice of authors to reference, cite...
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Article 20 mins