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OpenLearn supports Get Online Week
Education & Development

OpenLearn supports Get Online Week

...resources, perfect for those with limited online access. The subjects have been selected to support Get Online Week’s key themes for 2023, and all OpenLearn course materials can be downloaded and accessed offline, if online access is difficult. Further information is available here on our FAQ page, under the heading 'What alternative formats are available?' We are...
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The Intervention Initiative – A bystander education programme
Education & Development

The Intervention Initiative – A bystander education programme

...resource is a response to that imperative. The Intervention Initiative is a free resource for universities and further education settings in England, developed in 2014 by the University of the West of England on receipt of a grant from Public Health England. It is an evidence-based educational programme for the prevention of sexual coercion and domestic abuse in...
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Chance, Risk and Health
Science, Maths & Technology

Chance, Risk and Health

...Human Genome Project, the cutting edge of 21st century science, involves a unique collaboration between biologists, geneticists and statisticians, using the latest information technology. Today we stand on the brink of a new era, and the work of one man prepared the way. But few people today know of the achievements of Ronald Aylmer Fisher. The four video tracks on this...
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Why the Applying Psychology to Work hub was created
Health, Sports & Psychology

Why the Applying Psychology to Work hub was created

...resources, such as employee assistance schemes and other services that can help in improving impacts such as mental health, wellbeing or communications problems impacted by COVID-19. A review of material already available on OpenLearn highlighted plenty of resources that could help address the considerable workplace changes, plus mental and emotional consequences, from...
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Caring In Welsh App
Education & Development

Caring In Welsh App

...text on the pages as their Welsh improves. [CCC Caring In Welsh App page] The app was designed, developed and recorded by Galactig. The app is voiced by presenter Nia Parry. Find out more. [Coleg Cymraeg Cenedlaethol logo] This resource was provided by Coleg Cymraeg Cenedlaethol and is part of the University Ready hub. Find more resources like this on the hub homepage....
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Parent guide to university applications and beyond
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Parent guide to university applications and beyond

...who have attended university recently. They take you through the application process, show how to get started with Student Finance and ways to support your young person with this big step. [University of South Wales logo] This resource was provided by the University of South Wales and is part of the University Ready hub. Find more resources like this on the hub homepage....
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Writing critically and structuring your essay - Academic Study Skills
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Writing critically and structuring your essay - Academic Study Skills

...and postgraduate taught students. These include tips on how to study more effectively, time management, what is meant by critical thinking, as well as specific guidance on writing to a university standard. [Cardiff University logo] This resource was provided by Cardiff University and is part of the University Ready hub. Find more resources like this on the hub homepage....
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Oliver Sacks: "Romantic, in the sense of the romantic poets"
Health, Sports & Psychology

Oliver Sacks: "Romantic, in the sense of the romantic poets"

...humans. Sacks wrote what he called ‘romantic science’. Not romantic in the sense of romantic love, but romantic in the sense of the romantic poets, who used narrative to describe the subtleties of human nature, often in contrast to the enlightenment values of quantification and rationalism. In this light, romantic science would seem to be a contradiction, but Sacks...
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