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The greatest composers you’ve never heard of
History & The Arts

The greatest composers you’ve never heard of

...education. As a result, many people have never heard a single piece by a woman composer, let alone know their names. In this article, and also in the accompanying video, we’ll be sharing the stories of a range of nineteenth-century women composers: who they were, what they composed, and what they achieved in their lifetimes. [Laura Hamer ] Transcript Fanny Hensel (born...
James Honeyborne - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

James Honeyborne - Earth in Vision

...educational and above all entertaining wildlife films, but they have to be true to nature in all its senses, and that means showing humanity, the effects of humanity, setting it in a context that’s real and relevant to today because that's the reality of it. A series like Africa, for example, yes, we showed the glorious wildlife but then we also, within the body of the...
Is my child being exploited? How to spot the signs
Health, Sports & Psychology

Is my child being exploited? How to spot the signs

...educational needs or missing from home, to children who are well looked after, even domestic violence is not an indicator of risk – essentially any child is at risk of exploitation. The Children’s Society identified that Covid-19 restrictions led to an adaptation by criminal gangs, in how children were groomed or primed by the gangs to get involved in criminal...
Get ready for beginners’ French Badge icon
Languages

Get ready for beginners’ French

...educational well-being of the community. The courses also provide another way of helping you to progress from informal to formal learning. To complete a course you need to be able to find about 24 hours of study time, over a period of about 8 weeks. However, it is possible to study them at any time, and at a pace to suit you. Badged courses are all available on The Open...
Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Budget 2016: The Experts Respond
Society, Politics & Law

Budget 2016: The Experts Respond

...education classes have a detectable impact on weight among children, perhaps because these substitute alternative forms of physical activity. But enabling children to do physical exercise is a good thing in itself, irrespective of the effect it might have on weight. Infrastructure Geraint Johnes, professor of economics, Lancaster University The Chancellor’s...
Supporting young trans people’s rights to health and happiness
Education & Development

Supporting young trans people’s rights to health and happiness

...Education, vol. 18, no. 4, pp. 420–434 [Online]. DOI: 10.1080/14681811.2018.1439373. Callahan, S. and Nicholas, L. (2019) ‘Dragon wings and butterfly wings: implicit gender binarism in early childhood’, Gender and Education, vol. 31, no. 6, pp. 705–723 [Online]. DOI: 10.1080/09540253.2018.1552361. Carlile, A., Butteriss, E. and Sansfaçon, A. P. (2021)...
Coaching neurodivergent athletes
Health, Sports & Psychology

Coaching neurodivergent athletes

...education: double masking by neurodivergent students’, European Journal of Special Needs Education, pp. 1–17. Available at: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/08856257.2025.2511369 (Accessed: 5 August 2025)...Week 2: Neurodiversity in sport and exercise: an athlete’s voice: Acknowledgements - This free course was written by Ian MacDonald and Jessica...
Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
How the potato fuelled the rise of liberal capitalism
History & The Arts

How the potato fuelled the rise of liberal capitalism

...nation. “There is not a single politician,” agreed the Spanish thinker Joaquin Xavier de Uriz, writing in 1801, “who does not accept the clear fact that the greatest possible number of law-abiding and hard-working men constitutes the happiness, strength and wealth of any state”. Statesmen and public-spirited individuals therefore devoted attention to building this healthy population. It was the productivity puzzle of the ......