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The impact of COVID-19 on Black children and young people living in London
Education & Development

The impact of COVID-19 on Black children and young people living in London

...Education Social spaces Relationships Lessons learned during lockdown Hopes for the future The researchers are currently halfway through data collection of twenty-five participants and this project is a pilot to explore issues which are important to children and young people in a view to turn this into a larger project. The lives of Black children and young people are...
What does it mean to be a South Asian young adult carer?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What does it mean to be a South Asian young adult carer?

...education and their own wellbeing...اس مضمون کو اردو آڈیو ورژن میں سننے کے لیے یہاں کلک کریں (Click here for the Urdu audio version of this article). Young adult carers in England Young people aged 16 to 24 years who care for ill or disabled family members on an unpaid basis are known as ‘young adult carers’. The words used...
School geography: Exploring a definition
Education & Development

School geography: Exploring a definition

...education...This free course, School geography: Exploring a definition, focuses on how geography is currently being taught and understood. While studying it you will read about the significance of geography as a subject, looking at differing views as to exactly which disciplines make up geography. The course also includes a lesson plan and a look at definitions of...
Secondary learning
Education & Development

Secondary learning

...educational setting and are interested in learning more about some of the theory that underpins good teaching. At the heart of education are knowledge and learning. Both are complex but how they are viewed has profound effects on what happens in formal educational settings such as classrooms. Together they are manifested in classroom ‘pedagogy’, defined as ‘the...
Level 3: Advanced 11 hrs
Supporting children's development
Education & Development

Supporting children's development

...Education-associated transitions are less obvious and refer to the less formal changes in children’s lives and routines that occur outside an institutional setting. These changes may occur in everyday life away from school but can affect and shape children’s lives and well-being. Divorce would be an example of this sort of change...Developing and managing...
Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Managing virtual project teams
Money & Business

Managing virtual project teams

...educational and professional qualifications and licences relevant experience communication and numeracy personal characteristics, e.g. physical characteristics if they are required for the job willingness to travel team-building or administrative skills. Job descriptions and person specifications can be used for job advertisements, interviews and any other recruitment and...
Are women under-represented at tech accelerators?
Money & Business

Are women under-represented at tech accelerators?

...technology entrepreneurship – women just don’t feature prominently in the industry and the numbers in accelerator programmes reflects this. The evidence, however, indicates that within Europe women own around 15% of all science engineering and technology ventures. So, where are all the women when it comes to accelerators? Their minority status in the sector does not...
Physical and mental health for young children
Education & Development

Physical and mental health for young children

...educate babies and young children can do to support and promote good health in practical and low-cost ways. This free course will increase your knowledge and skills and show you ways that adults, both parents and professionals, can play an active role in supporting and promoting good health in babies and young children. The Open University would really appreciate a few...