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Making sense of ourselves
Health, Sports & Psychology

Making sense of ourselves

...studying this course, you should be able to: explain some of the key aspects of prejudice and how and why they are important describe basic elements in the study of the psychology of personal relationships such as love and friendship understand how visual illusions are used to explore the visual system and how psychologists research vision understand the role of theory of...
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Level 2: Intermediate 4 hrs
Careers education and guidance
Education & Development

Careers education and guidance

...studying with The Open University by visiting our online prospectus...Careers education and guidance: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: understand the rationale for careers education and guidance (CEG) and young people's need for it understand your school's statutory responsibilities for CEG and its links with Connexions understand the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
What is the national learning hub for volunteers?
Education & Development

What is the national learning hub for volunteers?

...skills and knowledge on volunteering and open the door to new opportunities? Check out a number of free courses from OpenLearn, on subjects such as: roles and responsibilities communication equality, diversity and inclusion safeguarding mental health dementia learning disability health and safety fluid and nutrition basic life support key skills Get started and discover...
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Article 5 mins
Returning to STEM Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Returning to STEM

...skills. You can read more on how to study the course and about badges in the next sections. After completing this course, you should be able to: identify key experiences and attributes, and know how to use online tools effectively to be visible identify long-term goals and create an action plan and CV to achieve these know about future trends in STEM employment and where...
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Level 3: Advanced 24 hrs
Are schools the best place for children to learn?
Education & Development

Are schools the best place for children to learn?

...study at home, but is this a bad thing? Professor Jonathan Rix explores...We largely just go along with what the school decides our children should learn and with how this learning should happen. However, schools often have a narrow view of learning and how it can be achieved. Under everyday pressures, and drawing on a history of practice, schools tend to spend a lot of...
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Article 15 mins
Keeping Mum: learning how to be a father
Society, Politics & Law

Keeping Mum: learning how to be a father

...study on fathering identities, suggested it certainly wasn’t from their own dads. The men I spoke to were fairly ambivalent about the way they had been ‘fathered’: most of them admired their dads, but they didn’t see themselves following their example. This was summed up in a telling comment by Paul, one of my interviewees, who said of his dad: ‘I don’t think...
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Article 5 mins
Boys will be boys?
Society, Politics & Law

Boys will be boys?

...skills and aptitudes. However, one explanation that has gained particular currency - to the extent of becoming a kind of unchallenged ‘common sense’ - is the supposed absence of positive male role models from the lives of today’s young men, especially those perceived to be most vulnerable. This was certainly an argument heard repeatedly from politicians and others...
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Article 5 mins
Human resources: recruitment and selection
Money & Business

Human resources: recruitment and selection

...studying this course, you should be able to: list the skills and knowledge needed to conduct full and fair recruitment and selection undertake full and fair recruitment and selection systematically...Human resources: recruitment and selection: 1 Overview - The course begins by looking at how it can be difficult for a manager in the process of recruitment and selection to...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs