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Reflections on resilience for LGBTQ+ asylum seekers
Society, Politics & Law

Reflections on resilience for LGBTQ+ asylum seekers

...resource within the group. I decided to support group members’ own confidence in taking leadership. Their challenges included developing a group repertoire and sound where some membership was regularly changing, or had mixed ability, nationalities and the challenges of singing outdoors. Sometimes people don’t see the value in specific group based activity, preferring...
Explore the range of migrant experiences: Play Uneven Journeys
Society, Politics & Law

Explore the range of migrant experiences: Play Uneven Journeys

...Open University. Nele and Agnes first met on another project – the Who Are We? project, hosted by the Tate Modern as part of its Tate Exchange initiative. There, Nele showcased The Cizenshop, an interactive installation designed to educate participants about a relatively unknow phenomenon: citizenship-by-investment programmes, whereby the wealthy could effectively...
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Science, Maths & Technology

Understanding dyslexia

...resources’ (p. 488). Labour MP Graham Stringer labelled dyslexia as ‘a cruel fiction’ created by the educational establishment to excuse inadequacies in teaching methods for reading and writing, suggesting that this ‘fictional malady’ was a cause for poor literacy and contributed to unemployment and criminal behaviour, and urging that ‘the dyslexia industry...
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Guide to studying through medium of Welsh at university
Education & Development

Guide to studying through medium of Welsh at university

...resources and services available through the medium of Welsh...[Illustration of three students hugging and smiling] From finding student activities and support at your chosen university, through to developing your language skills further, this guide has it covered. myf.cymru is a Welsh language mental health and wellbeing project and website for students. The resources...
Science and society: A career and professional development course
Education & Development

Science and society: A career and professional development course

...Open University campus in Milton Keynes, through the financial support of the Royal Society, and attended by 13 UK research scientists with an interest in these topics. A good deal of the material that we used to deliver this ‘pilot version’ of the course is here on this site and so freely available to all other interested parties – other scientists, policy-makers,...
Extending and developing your thinking skills
Education & Development

Extending and developing your thinking skills

...image: Jason Rogers in Flickr made available under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 Licence. Don't miss out: If reading this text has inspired you to learn more, you may be interested in joining the millions of people who discover our free learning resources and qualifications by visiting The Open University - www.open.edu/ openlearn/ free-courses...
Emotional intelligence for translators
Languages

Emotional intelligence for translators

...open for enrolment at any time. Enrol here. Emotion management courses Emotional intelligence for translators is in a collection of courses developed as part of a Higher Education Innovation Fund (HEIF) project in response to the growing demand from employers, translators, and professional translation associations for CPD courses addressing translators' psychological...
An appreciative approach to inquiry
Education & Development

An appreciative approach to inquiry

...education institutes. For example, at The Open University, each faculty has a dedicated scholarship centre, and staff apply for funding on a bi-annual basis to conduct scholarship activities, often focusing on pressing emergent issues. SoTL is defined as ‘educators moving beyond reflection upon their teaching strategies to an intentional, rigorous and systematic inquiry...