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Mental health: Survivor suggestions
Health, Sports & Psychology

Mental health: Survivor suggestions

...people with, but if something bothers you it is important I think mental health is all about life balance; which sounds easy but it's not always so easy to achieve This resource is part of the 'Wellbeing and Mental Health Collection' created by the Open University in Wales. You can learn more and find courses, articles and other activities on the collection's homepage....
Plastic materials, pollution and recycling
Science, Maths & Technology

Plastic materials, pollution and recycling

...resource. A slightly better option is to burn the plastic within a refuse-derived-fuel to recover the energy trapped within the materials, this is often the best option for highly contaminated plastics. A better solution to waste plastics, if simple reuse isn’t practical, is to recycle the plastic materials. This is often so-called materials recycling where the plastic...
Boys will be boys?
Society, Politics & Law

Boys will be boys?

...educational under-achievement relative to girls, to an increasing growing awareness of the suicide rate and mental health problems among boys. Young men have tended to be characterised in media debate and public policy as ‘at risk’, in terms of their own physical and mental wellbeing, and as ‘risky’ in relation to others, in terms of youth crime and anti-social...
Ambitions for Palliative and End of Life Care: making sense of a national framework for local action
Health, Sports & Psychology

Ambitions for Palliative and End of Life Care: making sense of a national framework for local action

...Open University set out to explore how people make sense of and use this document in their practice. ...Supported by over 30 organisations, the Ambitions for Palliative and End of Life Care framework was first released in 2015 and relaunched in 2021 for another five years. It outlines six ambitions, illustrated in the image, to improve the care of dying people. [Six...
Motivation and factors affecting motivation
Health, Sports & Psychology

Motivation and factors affecting motivation

...resources. This OpenLearn course provides a sample of level 1 study in Education, Childhood & Youth...Motivation and factors affecting motivation: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: define the term ‘motivation’ appreciate different views of how people are motivated apply different theories to an individual’s...
Dealing with Change
Health, Sports & Psychology

Dealing with Change

...resource and knowledge, and social and political change. Change happens for many reasons. It can be gradual developmental change to make improvements to skills, technology or processes that already exist, or it can be transformational where the change is dramatic and is characterised by a radical change to things like the mission, culture, leadership and structure of an...
What does the head of Ofsted do?
Society, Politics & Law

What does the head of Ofsted do?

...education reform against resistance from unions. The idea that a new head of Ofsted brought in from a totally different cultural context will somehow be able to wave a magic wand over English education is not only both misguided and myopic, but shows a fundamental ignorance of what Ofsted was set up to do. Being the head of Ofsted has never been an easy role. The chief...
Universities United
Nature & Environment

Universities United

...education institutions are working together to tackle climate change...Universities or the staff from those universities often work together on projects of mutual interest. Indeed, many grant funding schemes for research and development projects expect there to be a consortium of partner organisations, including universities on any bid proposal. I myself have been...