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Academic Practice Films
Education & Development

Academic Practice Films

From a summary of referencing to top tips from a student, this series of five short videos explores academic integrity in more depth...What is academic integrity? Transcript What is referencing? Transcript What happens to my assignment after I submit it? Transcript Myth busting! Transcript Top tip from a student Transcript
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How the OpenLearn employability hub can help you get ahead
Money & Business

How the OpenLearn employability hub can help you get ahead

...OU’s Employability Framework The hub is built around the Open University’s ten key employability skills – the stuff that really matters to employers. These include: Communication Collaboration Problem Solving Self-awareness Self-management and resilience Digital and information literacy Numeracy Global citizenship Commercial and sector awareness You can search the...
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Ancient Rain: Historic monsoons could help us respond to climate change
Nature & Environment

Ancient Rain: Historic monsoons could help us respond to climate change

...student, Katrina Nilsson-Kerr...[Monsoon in the valleys of Madhya Pradesh, India] The valleys of Madhya Pradesh, India, during monsoon season The Indian summer monsoon represents a significant component of the global climate system, specifically its role in the hydrological cycle during the summer monsoon months of June through to September when vast amounts of rainfall...
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Is Mental Health ‘All in the Mind’?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Is Mental Health ‘All in the Mind’?

...Ou/BBC Radio 4 programme ‘All in the Mind’ suggests something that most people involved with it probably don’t actually believe: that mental health problems are ‘all in the mind’. The natural follow-on to believing this is that if only we could think differently there would be no reason to be disturbed or distressed. Of course, popular approaches such as...
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Happy New Year
Miscellaneous

Happy New Year

...OU students in different ways too) Succeed in the workplace Is this the year you put your career first? Check out our Badged Open Course, and if you fancy a STEM career, feast your eyes on our collection. You can also check out our full collection of badged open courses on employability. Start writing New year, new novel? Have you been itching to get your first novel...
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Rugby tackles homophobia
Health, Sports & Psychology

Rugby tackles homophobia

...becomes a derogatory identity label and an abnormal lifestyle. The Guinness advert challenges this stance and perhaps shows that attitudes are starting to shift. Researchers who have studied issues of gay people in sports largely agree that organised sports are highly homophobic (Anderson, 2002) although there is some more recent debate about whether men’s heterosexual...
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FabLab Nepal: creative learning as a way towards equality
Science, Maths & Technology

FabLab Nepal: creative learning as a way towards equality

...students, who still face an opportunity deficit in Nepal as they are more likely to be sent to CG schools than boys. [Photo of some students working together] [Photo of students working] Due to weak financial backgrounds, most CG schools, unlike private schools, do not have the necessary infrastructure, resources and skilled teaching staff to provide their students with...
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Chinese education: How do things work?
Society, Politics & Law

Chinese education: How do things work?

...becoming increasingly important in China. In urban areas, pre-school education is mainly provided through kindergartens. It may last one, two or three years and may be full time, part-time, boarding or on an hour-reckoned basis. In recent years there has been a focus on pre-school education in rural areas, particularly those that are remote, poor or with a large ethnic...
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