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Exercise and mental health
Health, Sports & Psychology

Exercise and mental health

...adults in Great Britain suffers from a mental health condition, such as depression or anxiety (Cooper and Bebbington, 2006), which makes the effective treatment of these conditions an issue of great importance. Anti-depression medication is often prescribed to treat depression, but compliance with taking these medications is often poor and they can have negative side...
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Level 2: Intermediate 2 hrs
Human Resource Management and EDI
Money & Business

Human Resource Management and EDI

...adult workforce than the traditional white males who had historically been the majority. Managers would therefore be faced with having to manage a diverse workforce. Work processes also became more complicated, requiring an increasing use of multifunctional and multi-skilled teams often drawn from different parts of an organisation. Collaboration, team work and an ability...
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Level 3: Advanced 2 hrs
Artists and authorship: the case of Raphael
History & The Arts

Artists and authorship: the case of Raphael

...de Dinteville on the left and Georges de Selve on the right, both in their twenties at the time. They stand above a cosmati marble floor – modelled on the one at Westminster Abbey – in front of a table laden with musical and scientific instruments. The celestial and terrestrial globes, mathematics text, lute, quadrant, and other objects depicted in vividly realistic...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Superqueeroes: Gender and superheroes
History & The Arts

Superqueeroes: Gender and superheroes

...Sex beyond the genitalia: The human brain mosaic. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 112(50), 15468-15473. Jordan-Young, R. M., 2010. Brain storm: The flaws in the science of sex differences. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. This article was written with expert input from Joseph de Lappe, research student at The Open University. More on superheroes...
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Article 15 mins
The UK votes out; the EU shrinks; the world reacts
Society, Politics & Law

The UK votes out; the EU shrinks; the world reacts

...de Bruxelles As fervent federalists, some Belgians may have occasionally dreamed that a Brexit would open a new window of opportunity for deeper and faster integration within Europe without the UK dragging its heels, but the truth is that all the major political parties were strongly supportive of Bremain. From a Belgian perspective, Brexit is bad news, both economically...
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Article 5 mins
An unheard voice from a Chinese teacher
Languages

An unheard voice from a Chinese teacher

...are truly “conditioned” in terms of their lacking of autonomy. They are de-professionalized and become labourers in an industrialized school system. There is no doubt that the teaching and learning strategies are very different between the UK and China. A typical Chinese teaching style is authoritarian and formal, where the teacher stands in front of a class and explains the textbook, while students sit and listen. ......
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Article 10 mins
Raymond Williams a Leonardo Sciascia: Cofio bywydau a gwaddolion
Society, Politics & Law

Raymond Williams a Leonardo Sciascia: Cofio bywydau a gwaddolion

...de Regalpetra (a gyhoeddwyd yn Saesneg dan yr enw Salt in the Wound) yn seiliedig ar ei brofiad o weithio fel athro ysgol yn ei dref enedigol. Roedd ei ddisgrifiadau o dlodi, ffasgiaeth a llygredigaeth yn yr Eglwys a neuadd y dref yn seiliedig ar ddigwyddiadau go iawn, a byddent yn ffurfio themâu pwysig yn ei weithiau diweddarach. Addysg oedd yn llywio ymdrechion y ddau...
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Article 10 mins
Paris Attacks: Social media is the villain of the piece, and the hero of the hour
Digital & Computing

Paris Attacks: Social media is the villain of the piece, and the hero of the hour

...de France. As was the case in January, the habits of everyday people continue to influence professional journalists: the apartment of a Le Monde editor, Daniel Psenny, overlooks the emergency exit of the Bataclan, and it was he who shot the vidéo seen more than 12 million times in a few hours. Social networking, social solidarity The public space that these digital...
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Article 10 mins