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Feeling Stuck in your Job or Career? The ACT Matrix may be the Tool you Need
Health, Sports & Psychology

Feeling Stuck in your Job or Career? The ACT Matrix may be the Tool you Need

...open and aware, conscious of inner thoughts and feelings, and how these may drive behaviours that lead to being ‘stuck’. Commitment The ‘C’ (commitment) is choosing (being active) to move in the direction of your values: choosing behaviours that reflect the things that matter the most to you, for the way you want to live and work. See below for more on values and...
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Supporting Lifelong Learning with Blockchain
Digital & Computing

Supporting Lifelong Learning with Blockchain

...education...This article presents a scenario investigated by the QualiChain project for supporting lifelong learning through the use of Blockchain technology. Within the £40M budget, the Institute of Coding applied our work to transform how Computer Science is accredited in the UK. This scenario is based on the use of Smart Badges, which are dynamic records of...
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What are South Asian young adult carers’ aspirations for the future?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What are South Asian young adult carers’ aspirations for the future?

...education bursaries for students who are carers. Check out the websites of your local colleges or universities. • The Open University provides scholarships for carers, including young adult carers, to obtain university qualifications: Carers' Scholarships Fund | Funding | The Open University • Find out if there are youth or employability organisations in your area or...
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FGM prevalence and healthcare planning
Health, Sports & Psychology

FGM prevalence and healthcare planning

...education and prevention strategies over the decade. Data can also be gathered from referrals to safeguarding teams about girls at risk and from the record of the numbers of women and girls with FGM who accessed healthcare services. As useful as this type of data is it does not capture all girls and women living with or at risk of FGM in a country who are not referred to...
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Climate change and the importance of COP26
Nature & Environment

Climate change and the importance of COP26

...Open University both teaches about and does research relevant to climate change. It has more than seven thousand staff and nearly 200,000 students who will be affected by climate change, let alone the millions of learners using OpenLearn. This climate change page brings together existing OpenLearn content that is directly relevant to climate change which you can study but...
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Art, Loot and Empire: The Benin Bronzes
History & The Arts

Art, Loot and Empire: The Benin Bronzes

...Open University's History courses and qualifications. This is the remarkable story of the Benin Bronzes, beautiful artworks in their own right, but also artefacts of cultural significance to the West African kingdom that produced them. Join retired Open University associate lecturer Linda Buckley, as she explores the history behind these objects. [Benin Bronzes head...
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The Arts and Creativity
Education & Development

The Arts and Creativity

...Open University's Art History courses and qualifications. I’m a Senior Manager in the Access, Open and Cross-curricular Innovation team and my favourite aspect about the YXM130 module is that you can use short courses that you have already studied to count towards the module - what a win! When studying this module, you can also continue to explore a range of themes and...
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Article 5 mins
Supporting physical development in early childhood
Health, Sports & Psychology

Supporting physical development in early childhood

...Open University. Lala Manners As a teacher, trainer, educator, consultant, researcher, author and broadcaster, Lala Manners has enjoyed a long and varied career in the field of early years movement studies and physical development. Ben Langdown As well as being a lecturer in Sports Coaching at The Open University, Ben Langdown is also a strength and conditioning coach to...
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Level 1: Introductory 18 hrs