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Rugby: A sport for sampling or specialisation?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Rugby: A sport for sampling or specialisation?

...becoming more and more susceptible to commercial pressures and parents and coaches often encouraging children to participate in intensive training and highly competitive events in their specialised sport at a young age. There are various definitions for early specialisation however typically it involves continual year-round training in a single sport between the ages of 6...
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World-Changing Women: Emily Davies
History & The Arts

World-Changing Women: Emily Davies

...students with the same curriculum as that followed by male students to ensure that women’s achievements would be recognised as equal. However, women were not awarded degrees on an equal basis to men at Cambridge until 1948. Fifty years afterwards, in 1998, a special ceremony was held at the university to honour the 900 women who had earned, but not been awarded, degrees...
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Additional efforts: Why we need to be better at maths
Education & Development

Additional efforts: Why we need to be better at maths

...student engagement, made this comment when asked about what her family think about mathematics: “My mum doesn’t really like me asking her because she thinks she doesn’t have a maths brain. She thinks that she’s got more of an English brain than anything else.” Not surprisingly, Molly was not the only child who made that kind of comment. Parents’ negative...
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Knife crime is a health risk for young people – it can’t be solved by policing alone
Education & Development

Knife crime is a health risk for young people – it can’t be solved by policing alone

...students from poorer backgrounds have been scrapped. The teenage years are associated with risky and problematic behaviours for everyone. But these behaviours are aggravated by poverty, inequality, school exclusions, mental illness and chaotic family circumstances. Rather than thinking of violence among young people solely as a crime problem, it should be considered a...
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What makes it hard for migrants to learn the language of their new home?
Languages

What makes it hard for migrants to learn the language of their new home?

...become a Colony of Aliens, who will shortly be so numerous as to Germanize us instead of our Anglifying them, and will never adopt our Language or Customs, any more than they can acquire our Complexion. Today, it is more usually Chinese or Hispanic migrants who find themselves accused of being English-language learning refuseniks. Anyone who has ever been in contact with...
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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?

...become a senior researcher but wondered if I could ever manage caring alongside the demands of employment. I love research because it gives me the flexibility I need to be able to support my sibling. Employers should be aware that carers like us need understanding, flexibility and extra support. I want to make a difference with the research I am doing, but I will always...
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Hybrid working: change management
Money & Business

Hybrid working: change management

...student support network. The OU Students Association has been instrumental in helping us adapt and making sure that we are keeping the things that work, but also quickly addressing things that haven't worked. And we've tried to build them in to as many of our decision-making bodies as possible. The suppliers, again, have also had to adapt. And that's been a bit of a...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Treezilla
Society, Politics & Law

Treezilla

...students and the general public can get involved with. The idea is to map every tree in Britain. This will create a data-rich platform on which a wide range of citizen science investigations can be built". Treezilla is one of many applications available with The OpenScience Laboratory. It was initiated by researchers, scientists & educators and encourages people to...
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Activity 5 mins