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Developing your skills as an HR professional
Money & Business

Developing your skills as an HR professional

...Health and Safety Executive (HSE) website. In Part B of the activity you will complete a personal audit of the stressors that affect you and the degree to which they do so. Part B Diary evaluation Over the next three weeks you should collect information in the form of a diary under the following headings: The date, time and place of a stressful episode What you were doing...
My unique path to university: real stories
Education & Development

My unique path to university: real stories

...health challenges and adapted to life as a student. [My Path to University: Tom's Story] Andrea's story Andrea shares his perspective as a young carer and the first member of his family to go to university. [My Path to University: Andrea's Story] Liam's story Liam shares his experience of joining university later in life and his hopes for the future. [My Path to...
Impossible Peace 2: Introduction
OpenLearn Ireland

Impossible Peace 2: Introduction

...publication builds on our previous work -‘Impossible Peace’. Our focus now is the period 2005/10, and what happened after the IRA decision to end its armed campaign at 4pm on Thursday, July 28th 2005...[Impossible Peace 2: Dismantling the wars collection trailer] Click here to download the video transcript (docx) A World of War -power, ego and little leadership [Photo...
What is shareholder activism?
Money & Business

What is shareholder activism?

...Public interventions of activist shareholders in publicly traded companies attract considerable press coverage for their often aggressive and controversial actions to change a company’s governance or operations. Activist investors, such as Carl Icahn or Bill Ackman, use their equity stake in a company to either influence the running of a business directly or put public...
Time management and study
Health, Sports & Psychology

Time management and study

...Health Foundation website. You can also read about wellbeing strategies which may support your self-care routine. If you need further support and advice regarding your mental health, including stress around your studies or Burn Out, you can get information from support for you and your mental health. Acknowledgements This article was written by The Open University in...
United Nations Day
Society, Politics & Law

United Nations Day

...public holiday. UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon: This year again, we saw the United Nations come together on armed conflict, human rights, the environment and many other issues. We continue to show what collective action can do. We can do even more. In a world that is more connected, we must be more united. On United Nations Day, let us pledge to live up to our founding...
Darwin and Evolution
Science, Maths & Technology

Darwin and Evolution

...publication of On The Origin Of Species. This album introduces Darwin's great revelation: that species change and adapt according to their environment. Apparently diverse specimens and fossils reveal surprising results, such as the common ancestry of the hippopotamus and the dolphin, whose evolutionary paths diverged when their habitats changed. Research on sparrows show...
An education in Religion and Worldviews
History & The Arts

An education in Religion and Worldviews

...public discourse, who make academically informed judgements about important matters of religion and belief which shape the global landscape. (NATRE, CoRE, RE: Today, n.d.) How can we ensure the ‘best case scenario’ for Religious Education in schools is likely to be experienced?...An education in Religion and Worldviews: 2 Nobody Stands Nowhere - At the heart of the...