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Working and Learning In Sport and Fitness
Health, Sports & Psychology

Working and Learning In Sport and Fitness

...care, it’s relevant to those instructing, coaching or managing others in a range of sport and fitness settings. The eight video tracks on this album follow professionals working in a gym, a sports college and an ice-rink. They demonstrate how to encourage motivation, how to delegate and how to improve your own instructional skills. This material forms part of The Open...
Introduction to sport, fitness and management
Health, Sports & Psychology

Introduction to sport, fitness and management

...nutrition has on training. Community leisure: centres and PR A look at a community led leisure centre and the focus on customer care. Community leisure: Quality and staffing A look at the staff and the employee attributes that the Halo leisure group look for when recruiting. How employees gain the tools and skills that are necessary to provide a high standard of service....
Student-Parents: It’s a juggling act
Education & Development

Student-Parents: It’s a juggling act

...caring responsibilities. Individual circumstances (young, mature, disabled, single) means that becoming a student-parent can entail a slow, time-consuming and strenuous adjustment phase when starting university which varies from student to student (Owton, 2016). The first year can be particularly tough. When I was at University, I kept quiet about being a mother because I...
Digital carbon footprints and remote working
Nature & Environment

Digital carbon footprints and remote working

...care of duty would extend beyond the office walls indefinitely. Now, most companies are aware that employee pastoral care, health, safety and growth opportunities are the employer’s responsibility, no matter where their staff are located. We now find ourselves at another juxtaposition of two forces – climate change, NetZero strategies, and the global energy crisis....
Writing your research proposal
Education & Development

Writing your research proposal

...Care, the DHSC. Achieving a doctorate, whether a PhD, EdD or DHSC confers the title Dr. Why write a Research Proposal? To be accepted onto a PhD / Professional Doctorate (PD) programme in the Faculty of Wellbeing, Education and Language Studies (WELS) at The Open University, you are required to submit a research proposal. Your proposal will outline the research project...
Why are maggots making a comeback in hospitals?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Why are maggots making a comeback in hospitals?

...care specialist on Oahu, Hawaii, had seen many patients like James before and decided that he, like over 70,000 other people with diabetes in the US each year, needed to have his foot amputated in order to save his life. Seeing his father’s distress at the looming procedure, James’s son proposed a different solution: maggots. The larvae of the greenbottle blowfly...
Studying mammals: The social climbers
Nature & Environment

Studying mammals: The social climbers

...adult vervets in response to various birds. Look at the data for infants at the top of the figure. Infant monkeys were observed calling in response to a bird on 24 separate occasions. The number of calls made in response to each of the species of bird shown were assigned to categories, shown by lines of different colours that are identified in the key at the bottom of the...
The awarding gap at The Open University
Education & Development

The awarding gap at The Open University

...adults who identify as BME are more likely to be unemployed in comparison to White people at 1 in 25 (Race Disparity Audit, 2017). Within the Higher Education (HE) sector, racial inequality is becoming more widely recognised as an issue (NUS, UUK, 2019), apparent by inequitable outcomes for BME students, as they are less likely to obtain a good degree (a First or Higher...