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The importance of education for students in secure environments
Education & Development

The importance of education for students in secure environments

...data and assessment and the levels of knowledge and understanding of staff. A recent joint review by criminal justice inspectorates estimates that around half of those entering prison have some form of neurodivergent condition which impacts their ability to engage (Prison reform trust 2022, Prison: the facts Bromley Briefings Summer 2022) Furthermore, around three in ten...
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Bus driver, social worker and university lecturer, a personal, professional and political journey
Society, Politics & Law

Bus driver, social worker and university lecturer, a personal, professional and political journey

...analysis as to how I have developed from being a manual worker (bus driver), to a social work practitioner and onto my current academic post as a university lecturer in social work. Charting my passion for social justice Since my teenage years I have had a passion for social justice. In the early 1970s I sat with my mother watching a documentary on ‘battered wives’....
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Innovation, markets and industrial change
Society, Politics & Law

Innovation, markets and industrial change

...analysis of data, understanding the behaviour of economic institutions such as companies and households, and analysing economic processes. It also seeks to show how all of these economic techniques can be used to build up a rich understanding of innovation and economic change. This OpenLearn course provides a sample of Level 1 study in Sociology...Innovation, markets and...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
Race and Youth Policy: working with young people
Education & Development

Race and Youth Policy: working with young people

...Analysis of youth policy and its growing preoccupation with risk helps in seeing the close relationship between our understandings of young people and their lives, and the priorities of policies directed towards them. Usually, these initiatives seem to involve persuading young people to improve their ability to overcome the risks through education and training, or...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
Reading and motivation: focusing on disengaged readers
Education & Development

Reading and motivation: focusing on disengaged readers

...data from 70,403 young people suggests that reading enjoyment is at its lowest level since 2005 (Cole et al., 2022). It declines with age and less than half of the 8 to 18 year olds surveyed reported enjoying it (47.8%). More disturbingly still, the pre-existing gaps between boys and girls and between those on free school meals (FSM) and others, appear to have been...
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People-centred designing
Science, Maths & Technology

People-centred designing

...analysis of using everyday objects such as doors – was visibility. An everyday object such as a door, or a control such as a button on a product should appear to be obvious about how it is used, and indeed it should perform that obvious function. For example, is it obvious how you insert a disc into a player? Is it obvious how you switch the machine on, adjust volume,...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
An introduction to school librarianship Badge icon
Education & Development

An introduction to school librarianship

...data protection and safeguarding, but also more general legislation that librarians as professionals have to keep up to date with, for example, what's permissible under copyright law. For the day-to-day running of your library, you also need to be familiar with the school's policies on the use of mobile phones and computers. It's always nicer if we can make the rules so...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Fiscal policy in the post-financial crisis era: debates and lessons learned
Society, Politics & Law

Fiscal policy in the post-financial crisis era: debates and lessons learned

...data science and fiscal policy modelling branch at HM Treasury. Trailer Watch the trailer below for the seminar, Fiscal policy in the post-financial crisis era: debates and lessons learned. Transcript Learning outcomes After exploring the seminar material, you will be able to identify key trends in public finances after the global financial crisis and the pandemic as well...
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