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Are you estranged from your family and considering university?
Education & Development

Are you estranged from your family and considering university?

...education studies. They are self-reliant and live independently, sometimes with friends or a relative such as grandparents before or while at university. Support available Estrangement is so much more widespread than you may think. If you are already independent due to estrangement from your parents, or think that is likely to happen before or while you are at university,...
Irish Women’s Poetry
OpenLearn Ireland

Irish Women’s Poetry

...Education Bureau (WEB) and through organising workshops around the island with facilitators such as Eavan Boland who worked with women to develop their own writing voices. Salmon Poetry, established by American poet Jessie Lendennie in 1981, published the first collections of a number of women writers who would gain prominence in later years, for example Rita Ann Higgins,...
An invisible group: Young people’s experiences of living with a loved one who is seriously ill
Health, Sports & Psychology

An invisible group: Young people’s experiences of living with a loved one who is seriously ill

...education practitioners to provide holistic support services Hope is unique in the support it provides to CYP living in the West of England experiencing a family health crisis from 11 – 18 years from the point of diagnosis. Support is provided through a number of different media, including youth sessions, online support and a youth advocacy programme. Our research...
Am I ready to be an apprentice distance learner?
Education & Development

Am I ready to be an apprentice distance learner?

...education, or you might not have had the chance to study at a higher level before. This free course, Am I ready to be an apprentice distance learner?, will help to boost your confidence. You'll explore useful skills so you can discover how ready you are to study and how to develop your study skills in six steps to become a successful apprentice distance learner...Distance...
Accessibility of eLearning
Education & Development

Accessibility of eLearning

...education professionals are aware that they should consider it, but are unsure of what it means, and how to make their eLearning materials accessible to students with a range of disabilities. This free course addresses that need. If you are interested in this topic, The Open University offers an MA in Online Teaching, which further explores accessibility in the context of...
Level 3: Advanced 15 hrs
Being heard
Education & Development

Being heard

...Education. The air of each classroom was dense with hormones and possibility, but it is also a hugely challenging time of life. I feel I shall always have more to learn about mental health in this time of change and growth. Inclusion and belonging for those with learning disabilities. I feel uncomfortable with the use of the word ‘disability’ and the course I have...
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Martin Holt On Using Systems Thinking In Practice
Society, Politics & Law

Martin Holt On Using Systems Thinking In Practice

...education courses in 1991 having first come across the concepts as part of his postgraduate OU studies in Manufacturing. Martin describes his approach to STIP as: “A Curious person. I try to follow the adage of learning something new every day though these days it’s more about trying to remember something I’ve forgotten. What approaches and sectors have I used? –...
Finding creativity in orbit?
Science, Maths & Technology

Finding creativity in orbit?

...of usage of the English language. Let’s get our priorities right! Maybe if so-called “creative" get a few minutes exposure to the space environment, it may help to educate them as to what is really important – namely the Universe beyond their little worlds! [A branch of FCUK and the large Hadron collider] FCUK versus CERN: Where is the real creative thought?...