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A Support Net: Can you help someone in need?
Health, Sports & Psychology

A Support Net: Can you help someone in need?

...resources and helplines: Mind's information and support pages Call the Samaritans on 116 123, for free or look at the other ways of contacting them. The NHS Mental health - live well pages The NHS overcoming addiction pages This resource is part of the 'Wellbeing and Mental Health Collection' created by the Open University in Wales. You can learn more and find courses,...
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Activity 20 mins
Crime fiction
Languages

Crime fiction

...resources, and interactive activities, free to study and available to start right away...Find out about The Open University's Languages, cultures and communication courses. Crime fiction is the best-selling literary genre in Great Britain and other European countries. People’s reasons for reading, watching and listening to crime stories are many and varied. Maybe you...
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Article 5 mins
Why this hub was created
Education & Development

Why this hub was created

...resource should be developed that collated expertise on race and ethnicity, not only for general learning and personal interest to everyone, but also to directly inform BAME OU staff and students on topics that might affect their wellbeing and mental health. [This is a poster from a Black Lives Matter protest of 2020] A poster from a Black Lives Matter protest in 2020 We...
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Article 5 mins
Entrepreneurial Lives
Money & Business

Entrepreneurial Lives

...resource acquisition, and the fascinating, messy realities of entrepreneurs are themes explored in this series by Dr. MariaLaura Di Domenico of The Open University... Invisible Boundaries: When Home is the Business MariaLaura examines the challenges of running a home-based business, the coping strategies used - including time / spatial management - and the need to act-out...
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Audio 1 hr 17 mins
Are you estranged from your family and considering university?
Education & Development

Are you estranged from your family and considering university?

...resources to help you in their student support portal. Stand Alone Student Finance Wales have put together important information for estranged students and help with making an application. Each university has their own support package for estranged students, so check each university website. The UCAS website has lots of useful information to help you. And if you are...
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Article 5 mins
Exploring equality and equity in education
Education & Development

Exploring equality and equity in education

...resources allocated to education for different groups within society: for example, in England, a school usually receives a resource allocation with regard to the number of pupils who are considered to have ‘special educational needs’. Other mechanisms for resource allocation will operate in other jurisdictions. You might have expressed it in terms of students having...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Do I have mental health problems and should I get some help?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Do I have mental health problems and should I get some help?

...resources and interventions like mindfulness can also be useful in assisting people in overcoming life’s challenges. If your low mood or other mental health problems persists, affecting your sleep, relationships, job and/or appetite this can indicate that you may require some additional help, and a visit to your general practitioner (GP) would be recommended. [Normal is...
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Article 10 mins
Should we read John Locke today?
Society, Politics & Law

Should we read John Locke today?

...human nature and universal value. ‘Men being … by Nature, all free, equal and independent’, he argues, ‘no one can be put out of this Estate, and subjected to the Political Power of another, without his own Consent’ (John Locke, page 330, "Second Treatise of Government," in Two Treatises of Government, 1689). Locke’s ideas were highly influential in his time...
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