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Home education for children with special educational needs
Education & Development

Home education for children with special educational needs

...wellbeing. Disappointed expectations led to a loss of trust in schools. Teacher relationships Parents described deteriorating relationships with teachers and schools when they felt their children’s support needs had been misunderstood or even denied. One parent said her child’s unmet needs resulted in ‘anxiety which led to behaviour difficulties and extremely low...
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Article 5 mins
World Environment Day 2016: Local engagement, global celebration
Nature & Environment

World Environment Day 2016: Local engagement, global celebration

...health of its inhabitants. This report links strongly to the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development outlined by the UN, noting the critical links between development, the environment, human well-being and the full enjoyment of a wide range of human rights, including the rights to life, health, food, water and sanitation. This nexus is being recently well investigated for...
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Canada & UK launch coal phaseout plan
Nature & Environment

Canada & UK launch coal phaseout plan

...health and economic benefits that will result. The Alliance opened with 25 signatories. By the end of the 75-minute launch event on the second-last day of COP23 here in Bonn, El Salvador and Oregon had both signed on. By joining the alliance, governments commit to “phasing out traditional coal power and placing a moratorium on any new traditional coal power stations...
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Article 10 mins
An introduction to digital simulation in healthcare
Health, Sports & Psychology

An introduction to digital simulation in healthcare

...wellbeing. National framework for Simulation-Based Education (SBE): this was developed by Health Education England (2018) and provides guiding principles for the development, delivery, and commissioning of simulation-based education. It focuses on quality outcomes, leadership and governance, strategic resource allocation, multi-professional faculty development, and...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Formulating research questions
Education & Development

Formulating research questions

...health and social care. However, the issues considered have relevance to research in other public policy and service arenas...‘Community collaboration is the cornerstone of EDI in research’ (Texas Centre for Equity Promotion). When setting out to formulate a research question, researchers are working to at least two immediate agendas. Firstly, the priorities of the...
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Article 25 mins
What happens to our brains when we're afraid - and can that help us overcome fear?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What happens to our brains when we're afraid - and can that help us overcome fear?

...mental health services. Currently, a common approach is for patients to undergo some form of aversion therapy, in which they confront their fear by being exposed to it in the hope they will learn that the thing they fear isn’t harmful after all. However, this therapy is inherently unpleasant, and many choose not to pursue it. Now a team of neuroscientists from the...
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Article 5 mins
Struggling in silence: Why we need to talk about autistic people’s experiences of menstruation
Health, Sports & Psychology

Struggling in silence: Why we need to talk about autistic people’s experiences of menstruation

...mental health difficulties and amplify sensory sensitivities. The need to keep track of when to have sanitary products ready, or knowing (and remembering) when those need changing, can be very difficult for autistic people, who are more likely to experience differences with what we call executive functioning (meaning skills like remembering, planning, prioritising and...
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Article 5 mins
Unmasking inequalities: what COVID-19 revealed about the degree awarding gap at The Open University
Digital & Computing

Unmasking inequalities: what COVID-19 revealed about the degree awarding gap at The Open University

...mental health challenges as key hurdles disproportionately affecting ethnic minority learners. These factors often intersected. A student juggling NHS shifts, caring responsibilities and unreliable broadband was more likely to disengage, defer or underperform – not due to lack of motivation, but due to overwhelming structural pressures. [Blue bottles of hand sanitiser...
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Article 5 mins